What’s New – 5th February 2023

– New HM podcast! Landownership and Class. Historical Materialism Podcast

Are landowners a ‘third class’ beyond capitalists and workers? Or are landowners simply a class fraction of capitalists? How can tenants resist the power of the landowning class? In this episode, Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar talk with Francesca T.C. Manning, author of A Defence of the Concept of the Landowning Class as the Third Class: Towards a Logic of Landownership. The article is open-access and free for all to download and read.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/603ee8f75lQISytEzNTmF1

– New reviews and an updated list of books for review recently published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/

– Podcast: Freedom by sea: history from below and transatlantic history with Marcus Rediker

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1CSaxqQJ2AVm2BXrBcJc6P?si=x4TswPNIRsCR5lUCphAPmg

– Uno Kozo’s theory of crisis: a symposium

https://positionspolitics.org/episteme-9/

– Rab-Rab Press in collaboration with Contradictions Journal published the first English translation of Karel Teige’s The Marketplace of Art. For more info and order: https://www.rabrab.net/

– After Marx: Literature, Theory and Value in the Twenty-First Century, from Cambridge UP:

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/literary-theory/after-marx-literature-theory-and-value-twenty-first-century?format=PB&isbn=9781108702249

– Robert Linhart and the Circuitous Paths of Inquiry

https://viewpointmag.com/2022/12/05/robert-linhart-and-the-circuitous-paths-of-inquiry/

– James P. Cannon: America’s Pioneer Trotskyist by Murray Smith, A Review of Bryan D. Palmer’s James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States, 1928–38

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/30/james-p-cannon-americas-pioneer-trotskyist/

– The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: 3 Part Interview with Bryan D. Palmer

https://newbooksnetwork.com/james-p-cannon-and-the-emergence-of-trotskyism-in-the-united-states-1928-38

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-emergence-of-trotskyism-in-the-united-states-an-interview-with-bryan-d-palmer-part-2-of-3

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-emergence-of-trotskyism-in-the-united-states-an-interview-with-bryan-d-palmer-part-1-of-3

– Bryan D. Palmer on his new book, James P. Cannon and the Emergence of Trotskyism

https://www.lawcha.org/2022/12/21/bryan-d-palmer-on-his-new-book-james-p-cannon-and-the-emergence-of-trotskyism/

– In memoriam: Paresh Chattopadhyay

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/fr-ca/obituaries/montreal-qc/paresh-chattopadhyay-11107469

–History, Theory and Politics: On Uno Kozo’s Theory of Crisis

https://socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed-video/history-theory-politics-uno-kozo-theory-of-crisis/

– Honoring Mike Davis at UCLA – March 2

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/5546-honoring-mike-davis-at-ucla-march-2

– Mutant Ecologies in the Age of Genomic Capital. Sat, February 4 @ 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, NY time [9-11pm London, 10-12pm EU] – Free zoom link on request here:

https://marxedproject.org/event/mutant-ecologies-in-the-age-of-genomic-capital/