The International Marxist-Humanist
For a Humanist Alternative to Capitalism
“As Putin and Biden bluster threats of war, and so-called antiwar activists echo imperial lies…”
A long-time socialist’s poem reminiscing about friends and experiences in Kyiv in the shadow of the threat of war in Ukraine. — Editors
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Support Imprisoned Iranian Labor and Student Activists
The January 6 Insurrection: Historical and Global Contexts
Summary: One year later the January 6, 2021 Trumpist insurrection marks a nodal point. It exemplifies both U.S. white mob violence and contemporary global neofascism. While both of these contain rural roots, we need to avoid the Lassallean trap of writing off rural populations as uniformly conservative. Reposted from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0sd6k6zf? First appeared in Critical Sociology — Editors
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Time, Labour, and the Overcoming of Domination: Reflections on Martin Hägglund’s “This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom”
Summary: This review of an outstanding philosophic study that has much to offer to those seeking to develop an alternative to capitalism, first appeared in Historical Materialism Online, September 7, 2021 – Editors
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Chile: Behind the Left’s Victory
Summary: Background and context for Chile’s runoff election – Editors
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U.S. Workers Look for New Ways Out
Summary: Strikes at Kellogg’s, John Deere, and Riot Games are showing new forms of creative organizing not seen before — Editors
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On the 150th Anniversary of the Paris Commune: Marx, Gender, and the Alternative to Capitalism in 1871, 1844, and Today
Marx’s writings on the Paris Commune in 1871 and on crude communism in 1844 point to the centrality of gender in the struggle for the alternative to capitalism — Editors
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Review of Kevin Anderson’s ‘Dialectics of Revolution’
A review of Kevin B. Anderson’s Dialectics of Revolution, emphasizing different Marxist thinkers and their relationships (or lackthereof) to Hegelian dialectics. Originally published in the October 2021 issue of Science & Society. –Editors
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[Discussion Article] Reflections on the Fascist Threat – From the 1930s to Today
Should the Left unite with the center – or the progressive liberals – against fascism? Thoughts from a veteran socialist. First presented at a November 21, 2021 meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
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Help Continue the Work of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Summary: We need your help to continue the work of the IMHO – Editors.
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U.S. Im(migration) and racial-colonial capitalism
Summary: From a presentation to a meeting of the Los Angeles chapter of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
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In Memory of Ali Kiani (Kambiz Rafie)
Summary: We mourn the passing of an Iranian Marxist, revolutionary, and true humanist — Editors
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Recent Publications of Interest
Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation
Kevin B. Anderson (Editor)
Heather A. Brown(Editor)
Kieran Durkin(Editor)
A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity
By: Lilia D. Monzó
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography
By: J. P. Nettl
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics
By: David Alderson,
Kevin B. Anderson,
Timothy Brennan,
Barbara Epstein,
Robert Spencer
The Transition from Capitalism: Marxist Perspectives
By: Saeed Rahnema
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2
By: Rosa Luxemburg
Marx on Gender and the Family (Turkish edition)
By: Heather Brown
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Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
and Other Marxist-Humanist Classics
Draft Thesis: The Turning Point
The assessment of Goldwater in this draft thesis is referenced in the recent International Marxist-Humanist Organization article, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Overcoming Capitalism.
Dunayevskaya Collection
We are linking to the online version of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, which makes her germinal writings more widely available than before. (Her books have long been on our Literature Pages.)