Our first working session on imperialism with Neil Smith will be held on/at: Tuesday, Sept. 20th at 6:30pm second floor of Slattery’s (8 East 36th Street) the (re-)readings are: Lenin, “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” Leo Panitch and Sam … Continue reading →

readings: Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

readings: Samir Amin, The Law of Worldwide Value

readings: Anwar Shaikh, “The First Great Depression of the 21st Century”

readings: Reinhart Koselleck, “Crisis” Antonio Negri, “Crisis of the Planner-State: Communism and Revolutionary Organization”

readings: Giovanni Arrighi, “Towards a Theory of Capitalist Crisis” Michael Blim, “Economic Crisis, 2008: What Happened, and What Can Be Learned about How and Why, and What Could Happen Next?”

readings: “Ideology, Class and the Origin of the Islamic State.” Economy and Society 10.4 (1981): 498-9. “Are There Histories of Peoples Without Europe?” Comparative Studies in Society and History 29.3 (1987): 594-607. “Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology.” 14.4 Man … Continue reading →

readings: Hegel, preface to the Philosophy of Right Shlomo Avineri, Hegel’s Theory of the State (chapters 5 and 6) Alex Callinicos and Chris Nineham, “At an Impasse? Anti-capitalism and the Social Forums Today”