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

Rightwing Populism, Neofascism, & Imperialism in the Trump Era: Where Do We Go from Here?

Summary:  Speech at the launch of the Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice https://cprsj.wordpress.com/, Westside Peace Center, July 14, 2017. Also speaking: Frieda Afary of…

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Kevin B. Anderson,
Sofia Cutler,
Sara Farah,
John Bellamy Foster,
Emanuel Guay

Neoliberalism in Crisis

Summary: Kevin B Anderson and John Bellamy Foster discuss the contemporary crisis of neoliberalism and how to fight it through an examination of the relevance of Capital today. This article was origin…

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Kevin B. Anderson

French Elections Install a New Political Order: But Is It Built on Sand?

Jean-Luc Mélenchon Summary: Three political currents have the wind in their sails: Macron’s neoliberal centrism, Mélenchon’s leftwing populism, and Le Pen’s rightwing populism with fascist overtones….

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Kevin B. Anderson

The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic: In Philosophy and in World Politics

Summary: This article was originally published in English in 2002 in Rethinking Marxism 14:4, pp. 84-96. The Tamil version, translated by N. Muthumohan, was published in New Research — A Tamil Marxis…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Slavery, War, and Revolution

Summary: In his discussions of race, class, and revolution, Marx wrestled with many of the issues that plague today’s left. This review of Marx and Engels, The Civil War in the United States, second e…

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Kevin B. Anderson

The Imperialist Logic Behind Trump’s Attack on Syria in the Wake of Assad Regime War Crimes

Summary: Trump’s bombing of a Syrian airbase does not change the overall logic of US imperialist policy in the region, although his bellicose words and actions heighten the risk of a major war there o…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Marx’s Intertwining of Race and Class During the Civil War in the U.S.

Summary: Marx wrote on how enslaved Blacks, white US and British workers, and Abolitionist and socialist intellectuals interacted during what amounted to a second American Revolution. Author’s last ve…

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Kevin B. Anderson,
Alexander Reid Ross,
Javier Sethness

[Video] From Marx and Bakunin in the First International through the Russian Revolution

Summary: Panel discussion at the Orange County (LA area) Anarchist Book Fair, with two anarchists and one Marxist-Humanist — Editors

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Kevin B. Anderson

The Criminal Siege of Aleppo and Its Consequences

Summary: The criminal siege of Aleppo by Assad, Russia, and Iran is tacitly supported by the USA in the name of stability, and this offers important lessons for the Left, especially those opposing Tru…

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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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