Rick Kuhn explores the debates about crisis theory among Marxist economists, focusing in particular on the work of Henryk Grossman.
David Glanz responds critically to Tom O'Lincoln's piece on Mariategui in the previous edition of the Socialist Review.
Isabelle Garo makes the case for a dynamic application of Marx's method to today's political problems via a critique of Alain Badiou and Laclau and Mouffe.
Darren Roso reviews the first volume of a sweeping new biography of Marx's life.
Sadia Schneider on Marx's theory of the state.
There is a logic inherent in the humanism of Marxism that generates an overarching commitment to environmental conservation, writes Michael Kandelaars.
Sandra Bloodworth revisits Engels’ arguments about the origin of women’s oppression.
Michael Lazarus sketches a portrait of Marx’s life 200 years after his birth.
Friedrich Engels published his The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State in 1884. He argued that women’s oppression arose with the development of classes in society. Most feminists of the 1960s and 1970s recognised Engels’ work as a key text...