Marx  (tagged articles)

E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology and the Marxist Response: A Critique of the Critics

Sharan K. Garlapati - Sociobiology is a sub-discipline of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology, and population... Keep Reading »

Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx

Tianhao Hou - Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author fills this gap through... Keep Reading »
Photo: Painting by Jacob Lawrence

Slavery to Self-Liberation: The Haitian Revolution in Marxist Theory

Alexander J. Clegg - The Haitian Revolution of 1791 – 1804 was a successful slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue that began in the wake of the French Revolution and went on to influence subsequent liberation movements for decades to come. The Saint-Domingue revolutionaries... Keep Reading »
Photo: Deviant Art/AsymptomaticWay CC-2

Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony, and the Greek Crisis: Building New Hegemony to Supersede Neoliberal Discourse

Carter Vance - Antonio Gramsci’s interpretation and analysis of “hegemony,” its mechanisms, causes and consequences for the Left, is fundamentally an attempt to grapple with how culture and the “common sense of the epoch” (Miliband, 1990) grow out of... Keep Reading »

Reinterpreting the Treatment of the Rural Population by Peru's Shining Path

Auston Stiefer - The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui after his analysis of the “semifeudal” Peruvian economic state, which did not strictly follow Marx’s socialist model.1 Just... Keep Reading »
 
 

The keyword Marx is tagged in the following 16 articles.

Sociobiology
2021, Vol. 13 No. 10
E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology and the Marxist Response: A Critique of the Critics
By Sharan K. Garlapati
Sociobiology is a sub-discipline of biology that aims to examine and explain social behavior in terms of evolution. It is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from disciplines including psychology, ethology, anthropology, evolution, zoology, archaeology... Read Article »
Sociobiology Bioethics Marxism Evolution Biology E.O. Wilson
Critical Theory
2021, Vol. 13 No. 05
Biologization of Capital and Capitalization of Biopower: Connecting Foucault and Marx
By Tianhao Hou
Foucault raised the concept of biopower in the first volume of The History of Sexuality and placed its emergence in the context of capitalism, but he did not fully tackle the relationship between biopower and capitalism. In this article, the author... Read Article »
Biopower Foucault Capitalism Philosophy History Critical Theory Marxism
Revolution
2019, Vol. 11 No. 02
Slavery to Self-Liberation: The Haitian Revolution in Marxist Theory
By Alexander J. Clegg
The Haitian Revolution of 1791 – 1804 was a successful slave rebellion in the French colony of Saint-Domingue that began in the wake of the French Revolution and went on to influence subsequent liberation movements for decades to come. The... Read Article »
Haiti Revolution Slavery Marxism Rosa Luxemburg The Black Jacobins Rebellion
Political Theory
2017, Vol. 9 No. 04
Antonio Gramsci, Hegemony, and the Greek Crisis: Building New Hegemony to Supersede Neoliberal Discourse
By Carter Vance
Antonio Gramsci’s interpretation and analysis of “hegemony,” its mechanisms, causes and consequences for the Left, is fundamentally an attempt to grapple with how culture and the “common sense of the epoch” (Miliband... Read Article »
Marxism Antonio Gramsci Greece Socialism Hegemony Neoliberalism Political Parties
South America
2017, Vol. 9 No. 02
Reinterpreting the Treatment of the Rural Population by Peru's Shining Path
By Auston Stiefer
The Peruvian Communist Party (PCP) was founded as the Peruvian Socialist Party in 1928 by José Carlos Mariátegui after his analysis of the “semifeudal” Peruvian economic state, which did not strictly follow Marx’s... Read Article »
Peru South America Shining Path Indigenous Peoples Socialism Guerilla Tactics Marxism Communism Populism Revolution Human Rights
Critical Theory
2016, Vol. 8 No. 10
Can Marxist Thought Successfully Accommodate Radical Feminism?
By Bohdana Kurylo
The relationship between feminism and socialism is extremely intimate but also immensely intricate. According to feminist poet Adrienne Rich (1977, p. 285), ‘the repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to... Read Article »
Marxism Feminism Critical Theory Materialism Oppression Capitalism
Political Theory
2016, Vol. 8 No. 10
Theories of Nationalism: A Brief Comparison of Realist and Constructivist Ideas of the Nation
By Matt Finkel
In the immense field of scholarly work regarding defining nationhood, a raging debate exists between the conservative view of the nation and the constructivist view. A clear and definitive change in the conception of the ‘realness’ of... Read Article »
Nationalism Realism Constructivism Political Theory Marxism
Socialism
2015, Vol. 7 No. 09
Pottermania: Capitalist Eye-Candy Viewed Through a Neo-Marxist Lens
By Tinatin Japaridze
“Beware: Capitalist-Consumerism poses a danger to our Socialist ideals,” the Soviet-propaganda papers such as Pravdaand Izvestyahad proclaimed since the harrowing days of the Cold War. But by the early 1990s, the evergreen motto of the... Read Article »
Pottermania Harry Potter Neo-Marxism Socialism Soviet Union Capitalism Consumerism Marxism Disney
Marxism
2014, Vol. 10 No. 1
Race as a Material Ideology
By Jason Walsh
Published by Discussions
The persistence of racism within the working class is a fundamental problem for any Marxist analysis of race, and there have been several attempts to solve this problem within the Marxist tradition. Most traditional understandings, however, turn... Read Article »
Race Marxism Althusser Material Ideology Materialism
Gender
2013, Vol. 9 No. 2
Falsifying the Existence of Women: Exploring Marxian and Gender Theories in Mad Men to Examine Roles of Consciousness in the Gender Dynamics of the Workplace
By Oluwatosin Shenbanjo
Published by Discussions
One may contend that attaining unadulterated awareness of one’s existence is, in present society, idealistic. Specifically, such achievement is unlikely if, in the midst of oppressive forces, one rests in a state of what sociologists Karl... Read Article »
Gender Women Marx Workplace Mad Men Consciousness Television
Political Philosophy
2013, Vol. 5 No. 11
On Freedom and Progress: Comparing Marx and Mill
By Frank Wang
This essay compares Karl Marx’s and J.S. Mill’s understandings of freedom and their analyses of the impediments to its realization. First, this essay argues that the two philosophers share the same premise that progress is possible and... Read Article »
Marx John Stuart Mill Political Philosophy Freedom Progress Human Nature Communism Liberalism
Marxism
2012, Vol. 2 No. 1
Karl Marx and the Fair Trade Chocolate Industry in the Ivory Coast
By Caitlin McGonnigal
Published by Clocks and Clouds
The research completed aimed to show that the idea of fair trade, using the example of goals for the chocolate industry of the Ivory Coast, can be described as an example of the economic ideal which Karl Marx imagined. By comparing specific topics... Read Article »
Free Trade Fair Trade Karl Marx Marxism Capitalism Ivory Coast Political Theory
African Literature
2012, Vol. 4 No. 02
Implicit Negritude in The Dark Child
By Miles G. Kellerman
In James Kirkup and Ernest Jones’ English translation of Camara Laye’s 1953 autobiography, The Dark Child, there is a significant stylistic decision in the final sentence. Kirkup and Jones’ version reads: “Later on I felt... Read Article »
African Literature African Studies Colonialism Marxism Camara Laye French Guinea Negritude
Shakespeare
2011, Vol. 3 No. 10
Power and Transgression in Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure: Artifice and Ideology as Tools of the Elite
By Jesse A. Goldberg
Shakespeare’s comedies, at first glance, seem to uniformly end on a positive note, with the fulfillment of desires, the overcoming of obstacles, and the victory over malevolent forces. In Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure, however, this... Read Article »
Shakespeare Twelfth Night Measure For Measure Marxism Social Class
Political Economy
2010, Vol. 2 No. 07
Book Review: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein (2007)
By Delia M. Harrington
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine ties together history, economics, globalization, natural disasters and geopolitics into one bleak picture. Klein’s thesis is that the Shock Doctrine, also called Disaster Capitalism, has been put into... Read Article »
Politica Economy IMF World Bank Capitalism Marxism Naomi Klein Shock Doctrine
Human Rights
2010, Vol. 2 No. 03
Human Rights and Radical Social Change: Liberalism, Marxism and Progressive Populism in Venezuela
By Tillman Clark
“Human rights” is a concept so deeply intertwined into the modern discourse that it seems almost impossible to question it or refer to any standard beyond it. The problematic nature of this issue is not so much that people have different... Read Article »
Human Rights Venezuela Hugo Chavez Chavismo Marxism Populism Liberalism Ideology Social Change Radical Social Change

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