Peter Hudis

Peter Hudis has written widely on Marxist theory and contemporary politics and is the author of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, and Frantz Fanon: Philosopher on the Barricades. He is General Editor of The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg (three volumes have appeared so far).

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Peter Hudis

December 15, 2010 Length: 2493 words

Dialectics of Economic Turbulence

The new political reality introduced by the Republicans’ advances in the U.S. mid-term elections, along with the ongoing global economic crisis, calls upon radical thinkers and activists to reconsider…

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Peter Hudis

August 19, 2010 Length: 6861 words

Why a New International Marxist-Humanist Organization? Why Now? The Economic, Political, and Philosophical Context

A report from the successfully concluded Founding Conference of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, Chicago, July 3-4, 2010 It is necessary to look at Marx’s work as a whole, not fragment…

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Peter Hudis

April 24, 2010 Length: 3612 words

The Obama Effect Undermines the Left

Interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson [Published in German as “Der Obama-Effekt untergräbt die Linke,” iz3w No. 317 (Freiburg, March-April 2010), pp. 33-35]

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Peter Hudis

April 24, 2010 Length: 3640 words

The Obama Effect Undermines the Left

Interview by Simon Birnbaum with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson [Published in German as “Der Obama-Effekt untergräbt die Linke,” iz3w No. 317 (Freiburg, March-April 2010), pp. 33-35]

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Peter Hudis

September 8, 2009 Length: 12701 words

Towards an Organizational History of the Philosophy of Marxist-Humanism in the U.S.

Of all the problems and contradictions that have afflicted the radical movement since the time of Marx, those pertaining to the dialectics of organization has proven to be the most difficult and perpl…

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Peter Hudis

June 1, 2009 Length: 1847 words

Rethinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left

“Far from expressing a sequence of never-ending progression, the Hegelian dialectic lets retrogression appear as translucent as progression and indeed makes it very nearly inevitable if one ever tries…

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Peter Hudis

June 1, 2009 Length: 4965 words

Today’s Global Financial/Economic Crisis and the Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

My main argument is that blaming “greedy capitalists” for the present crisis is completely misguided, misleading, and counterproductive… And we will continue to deflect attention from the inhumanity…

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Peter Hudis

December 1, 2007 Length: 2698 words

Hegel’s Phenomenology Today: a Marxist-Humanist View

An exploration of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit 200 years after its publication, with particular attention to Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Hegel’s absolute knowing as a new beginning rather than…

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Peter Hudis

October 1, 2007 Length: 2397 words

Labor Unrest and Economic Distress Impact U.S. Politics

A look at labor struggles in auto and other industries in light of the deepening economic crisis, especially the housing bubble – Editors

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Books written by this author

Peter Hudis,
Peter Linebaugh,
Karl Marx

Critique of the Gotha Program (New Translation & New Introduction)

Kevin B. Anderson,
Heather A. Brown,
Seamus Connolly,
Peter Hudis,
Jens Johansson,
Ndindi Kitonga,
Lilia D. Monzó,
Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization,
Rhaysa Ruas

Marxist-Humanism in the Present Moment: Reflections on Theory and Practice in Light of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Uprisings

Kevin B. Anderson,
David Black,
Heather A. Brown,
Kieran Durkin,
Peter Hudis,
Ndindi Kitonga,
Karel Ludenhoff,
Paul Mason,
Rodolfo Mondolfo,
Frédéric Monferrand,
Lilia D. Monzó,
Adrienne Rich,
Alessandra Spano

Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

Peter Hudis

Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (South Asian Edition)

Peter Hudis

Frantz Fanon: Philosopher of the Barricades

Peter Hudis

Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism

Events from this author

[[Chicago]] How Marx and Fanon’s ‘New Humanism’ Speaks to Today’s Struggles Against Neo-Colonialism

April 13, 2024
12:00 Chicago Time

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[[Ho Chi Minh City]] Critique of Zionism from the Jewish Left’s perspective

January 13, 2024
8 pm LA time, 9 pm Chicago time



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[[Chicago]] The Regional and Global Impact of Israel’s War Against the Palestinian People

October 30, 2023
6:30 pm (Central time)

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84126516993?pwd=OHk4a3lNS25zM2N5RzVwRG53bk9vZz09

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[[Online]] Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme – Contemporary Reflections

September 15, 2022
17.30 Chicago - 23.30 BST

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[Chicago] Past and Future of Afghanistan

September 6, 2021
6:30 pm (CST)

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[[New York]] Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg: Debating Revolutionary Nationalism

April 17, 2021
2:00-4:00 pm East Coast DST/18:00-20:00 GMT

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[[Chicago]] Race, Class and Gender in Today’s Social Movements

April 19, 2021
6:30 PM (CST)

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[Glasgow] Peter Hudis on Race, Class and Gender since the Black Lives Matter Movement

January 29, 2021
16:00 – 18:00 CET

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[Los Angeles] Public Online Reading Group on “Rosa Luxemburg, Women’s Liberation, and Marx’s Philosophy of Revolution”

September 13, 2020
6-8:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84049457939?pwd=QjBKKzIzZnZqdDJvek9yYnFGU09nZz09

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[Chicago] Racist U.S. Capitalism on Trial

June 18, 2020
6:30 p.m. CDT (UTC/GMT -5:00 hours)

Internet
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87850888223?pwd=VUhLa0JkcmNxdzk4STRWNXAzaGpzdz09

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[Chicago] What is Socialism? What is Needed to Bring it into Existence?

February 26, 2020
6:30 p.m.

Harold Washington Library, Room 7 #N5 Floor (across the 7th floor elevators)
400 S. State St., Chicago Loop

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[Chicago] A Tale of Two South Americas – Chile and Bolivia

January 8, 2020
6:30 p.m.

Harold Washington Library, 7th Fl Room South
400 S. State St., Chicago Loop

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[London] Marx, Ecology, and the Climate Emergency

November 6, 2019
7:30 PM

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square, Holborn, London WC1R 4RL

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[Chicago] The Green New Deal: Realistic Proposal or Fantasy?

October 23, 2019
6:30 p.m.

Harold Washington Library, 5th Fl North Room
400 S. State St., Chicago

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[Chicago] Marx’s Philosophy of Liberation: Its Meaning for Today (Feb 20 to May 1)

April 3, 2019
6:30 - 8:30

Harold Washington Library, Room 7 North
400 S. State St., Chicago

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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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[Chicago] Race, Class, and Identity Politics

April 2, 2018
6:30 - 8:30 PM

Freedom School
719 S State St # 300, Chicago, IL 60605

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[Culver City (LA area)] Racism and the Logic of Capital

March 11, 2018
6:30-8:30 PM

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

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[Los Angeles] Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Revolution and Its Meaning for Today

July 23, 2017
6:00 - 8:00 PM

Westside Peace Center
3916 Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 101-102 (press #22 at door to get into building)

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[Chicago] Environmental Crises: Resistance & Alternatives

February 13, 2017
6:30 — 8:30 pm

Hosteling International, Nichols Room
24 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago loop

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