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Historical Materialism: research in critical marxist theory
"Historical Materialism is already among the most highly regarded
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increasing specialization, it is committed to high quality articles
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- Tony Smith (author, Dialectical Social Theory and its Critics, 1993)
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Issue 5 of Historical Materialism is now available. It contains major
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Also in Historical Materialism 5 you will find important new work by
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abstract labour and capital. Sean Sayers writes on late developments
in Marx's thought, Jon Gubbay assesses Erik Olin Wright's researches
into class, Gregor Gall analyses the contemporary predicament of
organised labour and Alan Johnson explores the Third Camp socialist
tradition. Also discussed are E. San Juan's new critique of
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Contents: Historical Materialism 5
SYMPOSIUM* ROBERT BRENNER AND THE WORLD CRISIS: PART 2
Werner Bonefeld: 'Notes on Competition, Capitalism, Crises and Class'
Alan Freeman: 'Crisis and the Poverty of Nations'
Michel Husson: 'Riding the Long Wave'
Anwar Shaikh: 'Explaining the Global Economic Crisis'
Tony Smith: 'Brenner and Crisis Theory'
Richard Walker: 'Capitalism's Recurrent Self-Criticism'
John Weeks: 'Surfing the Troubled Waters of Global Turbulence'
PLUS
Craig Brandist: 'Ethics, Politics and the Potential of Dialogism'
Geoff Kay: 'Abstract Labour and Capital'
REVIEWS
Sean Sayers on James D. White
Jon Gubbay on Erik Olin Wright
Gregor Gall on John Kelly
Alan Johnson on the Third Camp
Greg Dawes on E. San Juan
Adrian Haddock on Andrew Collier
Contents: Historical Materialism 4
Symposium: Robert Brenner and the World Crisis (Part 1)
Alex Callinicos: 'Capitalism, Competition and Profits: A Critique of
Robert Brenner's Theory of Crisis'
Gugliemlo Carchedi: 'A Missed Opportunity: Orthodox Versus Marxist
Crises Theories'
Simon Clarke: 'Capitalist Competition and the Tendency to
Overproduction: Comments on Brenner's "Uneven Development and the
Long Downturn"'
Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy: 'Brenner on Distribution'
Chris Harman: 'Footnotes and Fallacies: A Comment on Robert Brenner's
"The Economics of Global Turbulence"'
David Laibman: 'Perspectives on Brenner'
Michael A. Lebowitz: 'In Brenner, Everything is Reversed'
Fred Moseley: 'The Decline of the Rate of Profit in the Post-war
United States Economy: Due to Increased Competition or Increased
Unproductive Labour?'
Murray Smith: 'The Necessity of Value Theory: Brenner's Analysis of
the "Long Downturn" and Marx's Theory of Crisis'
Ellen Meiksins Wood: 'Horizontal Relations: A Note on Brenner's Heresy'
Article
Alan Johnson: 'Introduction: Hal Draper: A Biographical Sketch'
Hal Draper: 'The Myth of Lenin's "Concept of Party":Or What They Did
to "What Is To Be Done"'
Intervention
Tony Smith: 'The Relevance of Systematic Dialetics to Marxism
Thought: A Reply to Rosenthal'
Reviews
Matthew Worley on Recent British Communist History
Edwin A. Roberts on Praxis American Style
Charles Post on Terence J. Byres
Alan Wald on Michael Lowy
Rick Kuhn on David Peetz
Conference Report
Emma Bircham on 'Historical Materialism and Globalisation' at Warwick,
1999
"Historical Materialism is an excellent journal, providing a unique
forum for serious intellectual work about every aspect of Marxism.
The quality of the first issues surpassed expectations. The journal
is essential reading for anyone with an interest in this field."
- Sean Sayers (author Marxism and Human Nature, 1998)
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