Book Reviews
While our journal no longer carries a reviews section, and shorter reviews are now featured on our website, Historical Materialism welcomes articles addressing key contemporary interventions in critical Marxist theory or literature reviews that seek to provide critical surveys of contemporary debates. The word length and criteria for these articles, including the peer-review process, are the same as for other submissions to the journal.
If you are interested in writing articles that critically address recent volumes in critical Marxist theory or critical literature reviews please contact the editorial board in advance with information about the volume(s) under consideration and a short abstract (250 words) outlining your argument.
If you are interested in submitting a shorter review, about a recent Marxist publication to the website, please send us your submission directly to website@historicalmaterialism.org.
The Prophet avec Lacan
A Review of Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky, with a Preface by H.N. Brailsford and a Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
Against the Tide
A Review of Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt against the Last Humans, 1848–1945 by Ishay Landa
Learning from Bogdanov
A Review of Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov by James D. White
State–Labour Relations and Spaces of Dissent: Whither Labour Activism?
A Review of Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by Manjusha Nair
Socialism in One Genre: On Cai Xiang’s Revolution and Its Narratives (Geming/Xushu)
A Review of Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966 by Cai Xiang
The General Theory of Permanent Revolution
A Review of Na Contracorrente da História: documentos do trotskismo brasileiro 1930–1940 [Against the Current of History: Documents of Brazilian Trotskyism, 1930–1940], edited by Fúlvio Abramo and Dainis Karepovs
Commodities, Price Formation and the Technologies of Power behind Markets
A Review of Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity by Koray Çalışkan
A Place for Polemic: Audacity, Implosion, and the Politics of Transition
A Review of The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism by Samir Amin
Melancholy and Mobilisation
A Review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso
On Some Features of Marx’s Method
A Review of Marx’s ‘Capital’, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity by Guido Starosta
Echoes of the Brazilian Marseillaise
A Review of Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil by Victoria Langland
