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

Persian Translation of “Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads”

This translation by Said Tah and Yashar Shaf of parts of Anderson’s April 2011 article on “Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads” was published in Iran in Shargh Online, Oct. 8, 2011. The translation inc…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Persian Translation of “Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads”

This translation by Said Tah and Yashar Shaf of parts of Anderson’s April 2011 Articles in “Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads” was published in Iran in Shargh Online, Oct. 8, 2011. The translation in…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Arab Revolutions at the Crossroads

The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and the uprising in Libya have exhibited a post-Islamist and post-nationalist character.  After challenging both the political and the economic order, they face dang…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Not Just Capital and Class: Marx on Non-Western Societies, Nationalism and Ethnicity

While Marx’s major writings concentrated on capital and class in Western Europe, he also wrote extensively on ethnicity and nationalism, colonialism, and non-Western societies. A slightly different ve…

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Kevin B. Anderson

French, European Strikes Reveal Mass Discontent… and Its Limits

The French and European-wide strikes reveal mass discontent, but also illustrate the limitations facing today’s labor and leftist movements.  – Editors

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Kamran Afary,
Kevin B. Anderson

Los Angeles Protests Against Police Killing Reveal the Real Grassroots

Protests against the police killing of a day laborer in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles – populated by impoverished Central American immigrants – reveal the real grassroots of US society as i…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Overcoming Some Current Challenges to Dialectical Thought

A report from the successfully concluded Founding Conference of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, Chicago, July 3-4, 2010 The views set out in our Statement of Principles and our commit…

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Kevin B. Anderson

From the ‘Grundrisse’ to ‘Capital’: Multilinear Themes

In the Grundrisse (1857-58), Marx sketches a multilinear theory of history. This marks an important turn in his thought. These themes are taken up again and developed further in Capital, Vol. I (1872-…

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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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[[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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