David Black

David Black is the author of Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth Century England, of The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism: Essays on History, Culture and Dialectical Thought, and the coauthor of 1839: The Chartist Insurrection.

Articles From This Author

David Black

May 23, 2018 Length: 1829 words

On CLR James and Hegel’s Dialectic

Summary: Based on a talk to the ‘No Peace in the Park: Psychedelic Bolshevik Day School’, 17 June 2017, Norfolk Heritage Park, Sheffield – slightly expanded in light of discussion — Editors

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David Black

May 13, 2018 Length: 2282 words

An ‘Impulse Towards Freedom’: On Paul Mason’s call for a Marxist-Humanist Challenge to Capitalist Automation

Summary: Paul Mason’s essay in the New Statesman for the Marx bicentenary is a ringing endorsement of Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marx’s humanism, which raises timely questions for radicals…

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David Black

April 18, 2018 Length: 1030 words

A Revolutionary Betrayed: Review of the Play, ‘Eleanor Marx: the Jewess of Jews Walk’

Summary: A review of the new play,  “Eleanor Marx: the Jewess of Jews Walk,” which has just opened in London — Editors

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David Black

July 17, 2017 Length: 2193 words

The British Crisis and the Corbyn Surge: A Perfect Political Storm in the Making

Summary –British Prime Minister Theresa May, having lost her Parliamentary majority in the June 2017 election, is now grappling with the prospect of national humiliation and economic disaster in the B…

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David Black

July 17, 2016 Length: 5125 words

[Discussion Article] On the Perils of Populism: Brexit, the Left and the EU

Summary: This article is based on a presentation for the 2016 convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization on Philosophic Perspectives on Anti-Capitalism  – Editors

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David Black

September 14, 2015 Length: 3887 words

Chartists, Corbynistas and the Strange Death of New Labour England

The remarkable and decisive victory of the socialist Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour Party leadership election appears to revive the Left-Right divisions of the 1980s. But there are other historical prece…

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David Black,
Ben Watson

March 27, 2015 Length: 63 words

Helen Macfarlane: Independent Object

Michaeler Square, Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution Dave Black and Ben Watson celebrate the publication of the collected writings of Helen Macfarlane and her translation of the Communist Manifesto, s…

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David Black

March 18, 2015

Syriza’s Stormy Greek Spring: Buying Time by ‘Saving Capitalism from Itself’

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by students. The original, entitled “Syriza’s Stormy Greek Spring: Buying Time by ‘Saving Capitalism from Itself’,” was published in the International…

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David Black

March 18, 2015 Length: 38 words

Syriza’s Stormy Greek Spring: Buying Time by ‘Saving Capitalism from Itself’

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by students. The original, entitled “Syriza’s Stormy Greek Spring: Buying Time by ‘Saving Capitalism from Itself’,” was published in the International…

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Books written by this author

Kevin B. Anderson,
David Black,
Heather A. Brown,
Kieran Durkin,
Peter Hudis,
Ndindi Kitonga,
Karel Ludenhoff,
Paul Mason,
Rodolfo Mondolfo,
Frédéric Monferrand,
Lilia D. Monzó,
Adrienne Rich,
Alessandra Spano

Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

David Black

The Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism: Essays on History, Culture, and Dialectical Thought

David Black,
Chris Ford

1839: The Chartist Insurrection

David Black

Helen Macfarlane: A Feminist, Revolutionary Journalist, and Philosopher in Mid-Nineteenth-Century England

Events from this author

[[Los Angeles]] Facing the Climate Emergency: Capitalist Roots and Socialist Possibilities

October 22, 2023
5:00-7:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

The Original Farmers Market, Community Room (second floor)
6333 W. 3rd Street

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[[London]] Paul Mason, Alessandra Spano, Karel Ludenhoff, and David Black on Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism, with introductory remarks by Kieran Durkin

February 17, 2021
19:00-21:00 GMT

Zoom

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[London, UK] 60 Years of Raya Dunayevskaya’s ‘Marxism and Freedom’: On Class, Race and Automation

November 7, 2018
7:00 PM

Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DY

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[London] Alternatives to Capitalism: Internationalism, Theory and Revolution

November 8, 2017
7:30 - 9:30 PM

The Artists Room, Conway Hall
Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

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