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

March 27, 2018 Length: 4304 words

The Vision of the New Society in Marx’s Capital

Summary: Discusses commodity fetishism vs. communism, socially necessary labor time vs. free/creative labor. Includes responses to critiques of Marx by Silvia Federici (on gender) and Endnotes (on com…

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Peter Hudis,
Lalan Kishor Singh

February 7, 2018 Length: 3267 words

India: A Dialog With a Worker on the Future of Marxism

Summary: Lalan Kishor Singh, a production worker in Nagpur, India, recently raised vital questions in an open letter on the relation of workers and intellectuals, the failures of established socialism…

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Peter Hudis

December 8, 2017 Length: 7 words

[Video] Never Letting Go of Humanism: Rosa Luxembourg’s Critique of the 1917 Russian Revolution

Summary: Keynote address to conference on “The 100th Anniversary of the October Revolution,” Athens, Greece  — Editors

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Mohsen Abdelmoumen,
Peter Hudis

August 23, 2017

La conscience de la non-viabilité du capitalisme augmente chaque jour qui passe

Summary: This article was originally published in English on August 22, 2017 in the American Herald Tribune. The French version was published in Algérie Résistance and can be located here – Editors

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Mohsen Abdelmoumen,
Peter Hudis

August 22, 2017 Length: 9 words

Awareness of the Non-Viability of Capitalism Grows by the Day

Summary: Mohsen Adbelmoumen interviews Peter Hudis on contemporary working class struggles, the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, the role that activists and theorists can play in envisioning alternatives…

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Ian Angus,
Peter Hudis,
Paul Kellogg

June 18, 2017

Debate on Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism

Summary: Two reviews of Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism (2012) by Ian Angus and Paul Kellogg, with a response by the author, Peter Hudis.  This article was originally published in Soci…

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Peter Hudis

April 12, 2017 Length: 4995 words

The Brotherwise Dispatch vs Peter Hudis

Summary: Interview with Peter Hudis highlights the guiding threads in the thought and activity of Frantz Fanon as a humanist and anti-racist beacon in the battle of ideas and the struggle for an alter…

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Peter Hudis,
Sasha Lilley

November 29, 2016 Length: 3 words

[Audio] Marx on Life After Capitalism

Summary: Capitalism appears to many to be a failed system. We’re also told that the alternative posed by Karl Marx is similarly bankrupt. As against the experience of the Soviet Union and China, Peter…

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Peter Hudis

November 28, 2016

La victoria de Trump: un peligroso, abiertamente racista y misógino giro del capitalismo

Summary: This article was originally published in English on Nov. 10, 2016 in the International Marxist-Humanist. The Spanish version, translated by Juan Manuel Pericas, was published in Marxismo crit…

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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)

Zoom
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

Online

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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

Zoom
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/peter-hudis-on-race-class-and-gender-since-the-black-lives-matter-movement-tickets-134254455691?aff=erelexpmlt

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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

Zoom
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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