Kevin B. Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson’s authored books include Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies and Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism. Among his edited books are The Power of Negativity by Raya Dunayevskaya (with Peter Hudis), Karl Marx (with Bertell Ollman), The Rosa Luxemburg Reader (with P. Hudis), and The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence (with Russell Rockwell).

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Kevin B. Anderson

What Marx Understood About Slavery

Summary: Marx theorized the particularly capitalist character of New World slavery and resistance by enslaved people in relationship to capital and labor as a whole. First appeared in Jacobin on Septe…

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Kevin B. Anderson

To the Arab Readers of Marx at the Margins

Summary: Published as “Letter to My Arab Readers” for the new translation into Arabic, Cairo: Arweqa Institution for Studies, Translation, and Publishing, 2019, translated by Hisham Rouhana. First app…

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Kevin B. Anderson,
Ndindi Kitonga,
Lilia D. Monzó,
Valencia Rivera

LA Strike: Self-Mobilization of Teachers and Communities

The massive and partially victorious LA teachers’ strike showed a new teacher militancy, widespread community participation especially in Latinx neighborhoods, and new issues brought to the fore by th…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Sentori insurrezionali

Summary: This article was first published in English on December 30, 2018 in International Marxist-Humanist. The Italian translation, translated by Giuseppe Volpe and published in Ancora Fischia Il Ve…

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Kevin B. Anderson

We Need to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg After 100 Years, January 1919-January 2019

Summary: This article, translated by Hamid Vahed, was first published in English on January 15 in the International Marxist-Humanist — Editors

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Kevin B. Anderson

We Need to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg After 100 Years, January 1919-January 2019

Summary: Brief account of Luxemburg’s life and work in conjunction with workshop series in Los Angeles. First appeared in LA Progressive, Jan. 7, 2019.  Image is of latest volume of her collected work…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Los chalecos amarillos en Francia: un movimiento de masas autogestionado con aires de insurrección

Resumen: Los hechos acontecidos en Francia, un país desarrollado industrialmente desde la casi revolución de 1968, han traído consigo un aroma a revolución alcanzando niveles insospechados, poniendo e…

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Kevin B. Anderson

The French Yellow Vests: A Self-Mobilized Mass Movement with Insurrectionist Overtones

Summary: The French events have brought the scent of revolution into the air, to a level not seen in an industrially developed country since the near revolution of 1968. The class, racial, gender, and…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Marx on Nationalism, Class, and Revolution

Summary: Challenges notion that Marx dismissed or ignored nationalism by examining the Communist Manifesto and his writing on Poland and Ireland, which go far beyond solely economic considerations. Wr…

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[[Los Angeles]] Book Launch for Kevin B. Anderson, A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Africa, Ukraine, and France

September 22, 2024
5:00-7:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

Community Room (second floor – we regret no elevator or wheelchair accessibility -- but see Zoom link for remote attendance)
The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W. 3rd Street

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[[Los Angeles]] Roundtable: Developing Marxist-Humanism in Light of the New Historic Turning Point

June 23, 2024
5:00-7:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

Community Room (second floor – we regret no elevator or wheelchair accessibility -- but see zoom link for remote attendance)
The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W. 3rd Street (corner Fairfax Ave., next to the Grove), Los Angeles 90036

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[[Los Angeles]] Celebrating Two Dialectical Anniversaries, Lukacs and Dunayevskaya

December 3, 2023
5:00-7:00 PM, Los Angeles Time

Community Room (second floor – we regret no elevator or wheelchair accessibility -- but see Zoom link for remote attendance)
The Original Farmers Market, 6333 W. 3rd Street

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[[Los Angeles]] Taking the Temperature of What Is Facing Us in 2022

June 26, 2022
06:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

The Robinson S.P.A.C.E
104 Robinson St, Los Angeles, CA 90026 (masks are encouraged)

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[Los Angeles] The Black Lives Matter Mass Uprising and the Sanders Campaign: Racial and Class Politics in a Global and Dialectical Perspective

June 14, 2020
6:00-8:00 PM Pacific Time

Internet
 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84582379114?pwd=ZHcrRzFFVEpnUjBiUTF4RDdWVUNaQT09

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[Malmö, Sweden] Marx on Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

February 6, 2020
18:30-20:00

ABF
Spånehusvägen 47, 211 58, Malmö

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[London] Marx’s Late Writings: Theories of revolutionary change and of alternatives to capitalism

February 7, 2020
5:00-7:00 PM

SOAS RG01, main building ground floor, opposite metallic elephant
10 Thornhaugh St, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0XG

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[Lund, Sweden] Race, Capital, and the Climate – Contemporary Perspectives and Marxist Reflections

February 5, 2020
18:00-19:30

Lucsus Josephson (room Maathai)
Biskopsgatan 5, 223 62 Lund

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[Los Angeles] Marxism, Humanism, and Revolution in Africa— Yesterday and Today + critical update on Sanders campaign

February 23, 2020
6:00-8:00 PM

Poetic Research Bureau
951 Chung King Rd, Chinatown, Los Angeles 90012

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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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[Los Angeles] 1968, Year of Protest and Revolution, Fifty Years Later – Its Lessons for Today

October 14, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

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[Brooklyn, NY] Marx at 200: Capital, Class, and More

September 6, 2018
6:30 PM

The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY

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[Chicago] REVITALIZING REVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND PRACTICE

July 13, 2018
6:30 PM

Loyola University (downtown campus), Corboy Law Center Room 1401
25 East Pearson (between State St. and Wabash Ave)

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[Los Angeles] A World in Crisis: Marxist-Humanists Respond

June 17, 2018
6:30 - 8:30 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

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[Culver City (LA area)] Theoretical Lessons of the Russian Revolution

February 18, 2018
6:30 - 8:30

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd.

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[Los Angeles] Responding to Capitalism’s Wars at Home and Abroad

January 14, 2018
6:15-8:00 PM

Art Share
801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)

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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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[Los Angeles] THE VALUE FORM AND COMMODITY FETISHISM

October 1, 2017
6:15-8:00 PM

Art Share
801 East Fourth Place (Arts District) Los Ángeles

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[New York] 150 Years of Das Kapital

September 16, 2017
2:30 to 3:30 PM

The Brooklyn Commons

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[Culver City] BOOK SIGNING – FOR HUMANISM: RETURNING TO RADICAL SOLIDARITY AFTER POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE

June 25, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102, Culver City

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[Los Angeles] RETHEORIZING FASCISM IN THE TRUMP ERA

April 16, 2017
6:00-8:00 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102

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[Los Angeles] MARX’S CAPITAL AT 150 YEARS

January 22, 2017
7:00-9:00 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102, Culver City (LA area)

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