Date

08 November 2019

Where

SOAS, London

Speaker

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
David Harvie
Frederick Harry Pitts
Marcel Stoetzler

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The publication of the first three volumes of Open Marxism in the 1990s has had a transformative impact on how we think about Marxism in the UR of capitalist domination, arguing that money, capital and the state are forms of struggle from above and therefore open to resistance and rebellion. As critical thought is squeezed out of universities and geographical shifts shape the terrain of theoretical discussion, the editors argue now is the time for a new volume that reflects the work that has been carried out during the past decade.

Emphasising the contemporary relevance of 'open Marxism' in our moment of political and economic uncertainty, the collection shines a light on its significance for activists and academics today. The chapters explore value theory, critical theory, hope, democracy, prefiguration, crisis, the state, revolution, subjectivity, Zapatistas.

Speakers

Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (Co-Editor and author) is Reader in Sociology, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath. She is author of The Politics of Autonomy in Latin America: The Art of Organising Hope (Palgrave, 2015) and editor of Social Sciences for An-Other Politics. Women Theorising without Parachutes (Palgrave 2016). A.C.Dinerstein@bath.ac.uk

            David Harvie is Associate Professor of Finance and Political Economy, School of Business, University of Leicester. He is one of the co-editors of Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici, London: Pluto Press (2019, with Camille Barbagallo and Nic Beuret) david.harvie@le.ac.uk

            Frederick Harry Pitts (author) is a Lecturer in Management, School of Finances, Economics and Management, University of Bristol. He is author of  Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx, Palgrave, 2017) and co-author of Corbynism: A Critical Approach, Emerald (2018), with Matt Bolton. fh.pitts@bristol.ac.uk

            Marcel Stoetzler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Bangor University, UK. He is editor of Antisemitism and the Constitution of Sociology, University of Nebraska Press, 2014 and Beginning Classical Social Theory, Manchester University Press, Manchester (2017). m.stoetzler@bangor.ac.uk