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Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly. www.historicalmaterialism.org

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'A Beacon for the Socialist Revolution: The Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg' reviewed by Ronald Grigor Suny.
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A Beacon for the Socialist Revolution: The Political Writings of Rosa Luxemburg - Historical Materialism
Truly a labour of love, as well as sincere political and scholarly commitment, dedicated investigators of the history of revolutionary Social Democracy have been working for decades collecting, transl...
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
fantastic piece, now in english. one of the more sophisticated accounts in the ongoing F-debate taking place in the German public sphere. see also texts by m. paul, r. jaeggi, r. celikates, jp. reemtsma, d. loick, o. nachtwey, c. amlinger, v. thompson, ev. redecker, and a. demirovič
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
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What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism
Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfolded,...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation' with Panagiotis Sotiris will now take place on Monday 21 September 21 from 18:00 (CEST).
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dominique routhier @routhier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'll be on the book panel for this at @histmat.bsky.social London ! looking forward to discussing this with the comrades
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now online: 'Geoffrey Barry Kay (1938–2025)' by Bob Shenton.
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Geoffrey Barry Kay (1938 – 2025) - Historical Materialism
In 1975, the political economist Geoff Kay, who died last year, wrote in the Preface to his second book, Development and Underdevelopment: A Marxist Analysis:   … Faced with developments they cannot g...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Now online: '"Like a Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea" – On the Antihumanist Trajectory of Posthumanism' by Jan Rehmann.
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‘Like a Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea’ – On the Antihumanist Trajectory of Posthumanism - Historical Materialism
Confronted with this corporate death drive, in a constellation where significant factions of the ruling class are burning up the planet, an effective antifascism needs to take up again the humanist th...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Now online: 'Mélenchon and Technofeudalism: What Strategy for the French Left?' by Louis Delamangue.
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Mélenchon and Technofeudalism: What Strategy for the French Left? - Historical Materialism
We are sharing a translation of an article by Louis Delamangue from the new French theoretical journal Armes de la critique, associated with the far-left political party Révolution Permanente (formerl...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Two online events coming up: The first, 'Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation' with Panagiotis Sotiris on Thursday 17 September from 18:00 (CEST).
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"Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation" with Panagiotis Sotiris
Join us for a discussion of "Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation" with Panagiotis Sotiris, Marcus Green, and Massimo Modonesi
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Now online: 'Biocertification in the Capitalist State (with Clara Thurner)', organised and hosted by @marxdisability.bsky.social.
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Biocertification in the Capitalist State (with Clara Thurner)
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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New article where I think about the role of queer/trans Marxism in fascistic times. Now open access! brill.com/view/journal...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now online: 'Right-Hand Man or Biggest Mistake? Åsmund Egge’s *Grigory Zinoviev*' review by Clayton Black.
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Right-Hand Man or Biggest Mistake? Åsmund Egge’s Grigory Zinoviev - Historical Materialism
Egge’s monograph advances our understanding of a key figure of the Bolshevik revolution well beyond the caricatures that have too long dominated the historiography. It also makes clear that much work ...
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Riccardo Bellofiore @r-bellofiore.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Summer extravaganza by two usually boring people (at least one of us). We shouldn’t write it, hence we did. A #Marxian piece, disguised as Martian. About #Musk, #AI, robots, Mars, Iain M. Banks, with rather serious questions about #capitalism. Time well wasted. Or not. @zannymb @TheEconomist.
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Now online: 'The billionaire who did away with money' by Riccardo Bellofiore and Giovanna Vertova.
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The billionaire who did away with money - Historical Materialism
Musk’s future is full of things. Things produced, things launched, things switched on, things automated, things intelligent, things orbiting, things in abundance. But a liberated society is not a soci...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cover for the paperback edition of ‘Lenin’s Comintern Revisited’ by John Riddell for the Historical Materialism Book Series published by Haymarket Books. Art is from ‘Leftover, Cross XIII (Elegy to the Third International)’. Mixed media on canvas (2021). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2900-l...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Now online: 'Why Trans Liberation is Class Struggle' by Fraser Amos.
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Why trans liberation is class struggle - Historical Materialism
The policing of trans life is central to the oppression of the bodies, expression and relationships of the class as a whole
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgO... @histmat.bsky.social 's Alex Stoeffel talking to Adam Hanieh and Nivi Manchanda about Adam's Crude Capitalism ( @versobooks.bsky.social ).
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Now announced: Call for Papers for 'Radical Assembly', 22–24 April 2027, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), New York City.
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Radical Assembly (22-24 April 2027, NYC) - Historical Materialism
Radical Assembly wants to offer the stage to explore these questions by creating a comradely and egalitarian space of dialogue for Marxists. Following the legacy of the Socialist Scholars Conference a...
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Check out the interview Santiago and I did with Hans-Peter Gruber about his biography of Felix Weil: on Argentina, marxism, revolution, the Frankfurt school, and Judaism. What a life he led! I’m jealous.
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination is a path-breaking book sure to provide new insights for seasoned critics of political economy as well as intrepid first-timers.'
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Now online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.
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An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School - Historical Materialism
Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative insti...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Last two of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Second four of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
First of four of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Now online: 'Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important' by Paramjit Singh.
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Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important - Historical Materialism
The persistence of the dollar’s role as world money after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system raises a puzzle: how does a currency continue to function as world money even when the issuing countr...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Now online: 'Re-enchanting the Moving Image: On Julia Alekseyeva’s *Antifascism and the Avant-Garde*' by Alexander Billet.
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Re-enchanting the Moving Image: On Julia Alekseyeva’s Antifascism and the Avant-Garde - Historical Materialism
There was a time when the works of Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, and Matsumoto Toshio were lauded as innovative and revelatory well outside the ranks of film school aesthetes and underground video stores...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
In case you missed it, Phil A. Neel has just published the final installment of his Soundtrack to Hellworld on Substack. Take a listen whilst you delve into his tome!
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The Planetary Factory | Phil A. Neel | Substack
An archive, blog, and cartographic workshop examining the physical and political landscapes produced by global value chains. Click to read The Planetary Factory, by Phil A. Neel, a Substack publicatio...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series ‘Poetics of Value'. Cover art developed from ‘Dialectical Proposition 9, Vavara Stepanova ‘Textile Design in Black and White’ on ‘Kelmscott Manor’ tea towel’, fabric mounted on plywood, 2020. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2897-p...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Now online: 'Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism' by Etienne Balibar.
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Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism - Historical Materialism
The emergence of a new figure of party communism in the period of its final crisis, distinct from both the Soviet and Chinese tendencies, and capable of circumventing the logics of geopolitical “camps...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Historical Materialism Rio 2026 – Provisional Programme Now Available!
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Historical Materialism Rio 2026 - Provisional Programme Now Available! - Historical Materialism
The conference brings together debates on Marxist theory, labour, imperialism, neofascism, feminisms, social reproduction, platform capitalism, artificial intelligence, dependency, ecological crisis, ...
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
PLANETARY WARSCAPES ABLAZE: IMPERIAL MUTATIONS IN INFERNAL TIMES The annual @histmat.bsky.social title has 0 chill this year but fuck me if it isn’t the most apt conference title.
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American Worker @americanwork47.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Quite pleased to be back at @histmat.bsky.social London this November as part of the Workers and Capital stream with a paper titled—“Political Materials”: Between Inquiry and Intervention in Radical Social Movement Publications.
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
@histmat.bsky.social conference locked in, cant wait to roll a bunch of cigarettes for marxists who ‘dont smoke’
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Now online: 'Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject' by Omid Mehrgan.
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Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject - Historical Materialism
Iran can offer lessons on both colonial patricide and anti-colonial resistance, self-harm and healing. In the coming wars, we need strategies rooted in concepts and faith that can offer not only persp...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
bit.ly/4pg2x9r Panagiotis Sotiris writing for @histmat.bsky.social
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Revolutionary Strategy Revisited: Strategic Hypotheses and Open Questions
Abstract This article starts from the continuing pertinence of Daniel Bensaïd’s notion of the ‘strategic hypothesis’. To the hypotheses suggested by Bensaïd, it adds another hypothesis, that of ‘left ...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series ‘Class, Race and the US South’. Cover art is development of Construct 81, William Morris, Golden Lily / Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, acrylic on wallpaper mounted on linen, 2024. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2901-c...
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
This essay reads US history through a Marxist lens: 1776 establishes bourgeois rule, while the Constitution blocks a fuller democratic revolution and leaves capital's authoritarian power intact. On this view, Trump is less an aberration. By August H. Nimtz in @histmat.bsky.social buff.ly/LknJVyL
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The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical Materialism
The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids,…
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Now live!: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market with Adam Hanieh.
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Now online: 'The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective' by Kristin Ciupa.
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The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective - Historical Materialism
Following the United States’ military invasion of Venezuela on 3 January 2026, Venezuela’s oil sector is undergoing widespread transformation. US sanctions against Venezuela have been lifted, and refo...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Now published: Historical Materialism vol.33, no.3. A link to the articles can be found here: brill.com/view/journal...
An image of the cover of Historical Materialism journal, vol.33, no.3, showing two women wearing hardhats at a protest.
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series, Lucien Sève’s Thinking with Marx Today. Cover art is a development of ‘Construct 16. J H Dearle for Morris & Co. Compton / Malevich, First Suprematist Textile Design’, paint on wallpaper, 2005. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2893-t...
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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My response to the generous but critical review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @peterlamb1.bsky.social in @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/response-to-...
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Response to Peter Lamb - Historical Materialism
I wanted to express appreciation for Peter Lamb’s generous review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. Lamb’s review stresses the book’s scholarly merits and suggests it will be “very resourc...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Reposting, now that all of our comrades across The Pond are awake...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Now online: 'The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed' by August H. Nimtz.
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The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical Materialism
The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids, un...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Communist Politics in Ireland 1916–1945. Volume 1. Cover art is a development of ‘Painting 25, Long Live the New! Morris & Co. Hand Printed Wallpapers and K. Malevich’s Suprematism’. Acrylic on wallpaper mounted on canvas, 2016.
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development from 'Construct 36, Morris, Willow Boughs / Rodchenko, fabric design'. Pen and paint on wallpaper mounted on canvas, 2006. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2891-m...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Now online: 'The Artist who Took up Arms: Reclaiming the Marxist Vision of Bishnu Prasad Rabha' by Suddhabrata Deb Roy.
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The Artist who Took up Arms: Reclaiming the Marxist Vision of Bishnu Prasad Rabha - Historical Materialism
During his years as an underground Marxist guerilla, Rabha produced an impressive and original analyses of the potential Indian revolution from a Marxist perspective, which often remains unappreciated...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Now online: 'Henry Heller (1938–2026)' by Peter Kulchyski.
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Henry Heller (1938–2026) - Historical Materialism
Henry Heller has passed away. A Marxist historian of early modern France and Europe with wide-ranging interests in global history, political economy, the history of ideas and revolutionary struggles, ...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Now published: Alex Moskowitz and Ted Stolze (eds.), *Radical Transcendentalisms*.
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Radical Transcendentalisms - Historical Materialism
Alex Moskowitz and Ted Stolze (eds.) Volume Editors: Alex Moskowitz and Ted Stolze Radical Transcendentalisms seeks to recover the intense relation that the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist moveme...
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David Mabb @davidmabb.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development from ‘Construct 21, Kathleen Kersey for Morris & Co. Arbutus / Kasimir Malevich, Fabric Ornament No. 10’, paint and wallpaper on canvas (2005). www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2889-h...
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