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

Chinese translation of “On Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory: A Critical Appreciation of Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution, Fifty Years Later”

This article was translated into Chinese and published in Research on Marxist Aesthetics (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). The original was published in Sociological Theory 11:3 (November 1993).

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Kevin B. Anderson

Lenin’s Encounter with Hegel after 80 Years

Summary: This article first appeared in English in Science & Society, Vol. 59, No. 3 (1995) and can be accessed here. The Japanese version, published in the Tokyo Gramsci Society Bulletin, No. 59…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Ukraine : Aspirations démocratiques et rivalités inter-impérialistes

Summary: This article was translated into French and published in Avanti: site animé par des marxistes révolutionnaires (Belgium). The original, entitled “Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations and Inter-Imp…

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Kevin B. Anderson

On Gilbert Achcar’s Marxist Analysis of the Arab Uprising

Review of Gilbert Achcar’s The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, a book that uncovers its economic and political underpinnings, while also offering a critique of crude forms of…

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Kevin B. Anderson,
Barbara Epstein,
Sasha Lilley

[Audio] Conversation on the Rise and Fall of Socialist Humanism

Socialist humanist ideas were broadly championed by key thinkers in the mid-20th century, like E.P. Thompson, Fanon, Marcuse, and Fromm, but have now disappeared seemingly without a trace. Barbara Eps…

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Kevin B. Anderson

The Althusserian Cul-de-Sac

Summary: This interview of first appeared in Logos, was republished in the International Marxist-Humanist, June 2, 2014. The Persian translation appeared in Critique of Political Economy and can be ac…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Ucrania: Aspiraciones democráticas y rivalidad interimperialista

Summary: This article was translated into Spanish and published in Viento Sur (Spain). The original, entitled “Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations 
and Inter-imperialist Rivalry,” was published in New Pol…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Ucrania: Aspiraciones democráticas y rivalidad interimperialista

This article was translated into Spanish and published in Viento Sur (Spain). The original, entitled “Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations 
and Inter-imperialist Rivalry,” was published in New Politics 15:…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Popular Movements and Their Contradictions: From the Arab Revolutions to Today

Emancipatory popular movements have encountered deep contradictions in Ukraine, Syria, Tunisia, South Africa, and elsewhere. This is especially the case with regard to the vicissitudes of democratic r…

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[[Los Angeles]] The Fascist Threat: In the US, Internationally, and in History

November 17, 2024
4:30-6:30 PM, Los Angeles Time [note earlier start time from previous months]

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, Los Angeles 90036

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[[London]] Developing Revolutionary Perspectives at a Turning Point

November 6, 2024
19:00

Brockway Room, Conway Hall
25 Red Lion St, London WC1R 4RL

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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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