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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Kamran Afary,
Kevin B. Anderson

Behind the 2009 Upheaval in Iran

The upheaval in Iran has shaken up Iranian and even regional politics. Not since the Palestinian Intifada of 1987 has the Middle East seen such a massive and persistent grassroots mobilization. At the…

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Kevin B. Anderson

French Union Evicts Africans

The French CGT union’s racist expulsion of African immigrants from its offices reveals deep contradictions inside the labor movement. On Wednesday, June 24, a terrible event took place in Paris: Hundr…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Israel’s Gaza Invasion and the Barbarism of War

Israel’s invasion and devastation of the Gaza Strip is one more illustration of that nation’s barbaric behavior toward weaker peoples and nations. Far from the small beleaguered land represented in it…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Marx’s Late Writings on Russia Re-Examined

This year, we celebrate the 125th anniversary of Marx’s 1882 Preface to the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, co-authored by Engels, in which he espouses an alternate road toward communism for Russia, one based up…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Thinking About Fromm and Marxism

Erich Fromm’s work is unfortunately neglected in academia today, in no small part because his expansive humanism is out of joint with many forms of radical thought popular in those quarters. In additi…

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Europe, Muslim Minorities and “Free Speech”

The Danish cartoons demonizing Muslims should not be defended as free speech given the context of their publication, in which oppressed minorities inside Europe were demeaned in a racist manner by the…

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Kevin B. Anderson,
Chris Arthur

Dialogue on Dunayevskaya’s Power of Negativity

Back-and-forth over Arthur’s review, which challenged Dunayevskaya’s reading of Hegel, especially her discussion the concept of absolute negativity as ground for revolutionary dialectics today. PDF  

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Rosa Luxemburg: Feministe et révolutionnaire

Comme étudiant de Raya Dunayevskaya, qui travaille sur Rosa Luxemburg, je voudrais faire quelques remarques sur son dernier livre qui porte sur Marx, Luxemburg et le mouvement de libération des femmes…

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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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