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Yoji Yamada’s Samurai Trilogy
“Twilight Samurai” (2002) and “The Hidden Blade,” (2004) the first two installments in Yoji Yamada’s Samurai trilogy are now available from Netflix. “Love and Honor,” the final installment, showed at...
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Was the plantation slave a proletarian?
Generally I don’t find Facebook useful for much else besides clever repartee and birthday greetings but on Richard Seymour’s FB page there was a very useful discussion about whether the plantation...
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The Birth of Capitalism
Back sometime in 1998, the year that I created the Marxism mailing list, a University of Illinois at Chicago geography professor named Jim Blaut showed up touting a new book titled “The Colonizer’s...
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Hurrah! Jairus Banaji wins 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize
Jairus Banaji In mid-October word leaked out that Charlie Post’s “The American Road to Capitalism” was on the short list for this year’s Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, competing with Jairus...
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David Graeber on capitalism and unfree labor
(From “Debt: the first 5,000 years”) It is the secret scandal of capitalism that at no point has it been organized primarily around free labor. The conquest of the Americas began with mass enslavement,...
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The Strange Career of Eugene Genovese
Eugene Genovese, who died last week, was one of only two major Marxist academics prominent in the 1960s to become a reactionary ideologue. The other was Ronald Radosh, who has opined in recent years...
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Post gets pasted
Charles A. Post Science and Society, April 2013 The American Path of Bourgeois Development Revisited by Daniel Gaido (From the Haymarket author’s page: “Gaido is a researcher at the National Research...
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Robert Fogel, co-author of “Time on the Cross”, dead at 86
Robert Fogel Today the NY Times reported on the death of economist Robert Fogel at the age of 86. He is best known for his collaboration with Stanley Engerman on “Time on the Cross”, a book described...
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Alan Knight: Brennerite Subalternist
Alan Knight Although I picked up volume one (From the Beginning to the Spanish Conquest) of Alan Knight’s 3-volume history of Mexico mainly to get some background information on the Aztec ruins I...
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The tide turns against Political Marxism
Robert Brenner One of the upcoming featured articles in the ISO’s International Socialist Review is titled “The poverty of Political Marxism”. Written by Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu, it...
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The Poverty of Political Marxism
The poverty of Political Marxism By Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu Issue #94: Debates Share The debate regarding the potential merits and limits of Political Marxism initiated by Paul...
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When slaves were paid wages
(This is an excerpt from Greg Grandin’s beautifully written and mind-blowing “The Empire of Necessity”, a book that digs into the history that Herman Melville fictionalized in “Benito Cereno”. I had a...
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A response to an Ellen Meiksins Wood article in Jacobin
Ellen Meiksins Wood In a New Left Review interview with Bhaskar Sunkara, the 25-year-old founder of Jacobin magazine, we learn that the contributors are drawn partially from a pool of “grad students,...
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Slavery and Capitalism
A passage from this extraordinary book: Slavery, as the historian Lorenzo Greene wrote half a century ago and many scholars, such as Harvard’s Sven Beckert and Brown’s Seth Rockman, are today...
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Capitalism, slavery and primitive accumulation
The inspiration for Political Marxism? On Saturday morning I attended a panel discussion on Mike Zmolek’s newly published “Rethinking the Industrial Revolution” at the Historical Materialism...
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The Topless Dancer, Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism
COUNTERPUNCH WEEKEND EDITION JUNE 5-7, 2015 The Tide is Turning The Topless Dancer, Slavery and the Origins of Capitalism by LOUIS PROYECT Although I’ve written thirty-five articles about the origins...
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Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu on the Brenner thesis
(From pages 22 to 27 of the above new book.) The Brenner Thesis: Explanation and Critique In what has become one of the most influential theorisations of capitalism’s emergence, Robert Brenner...
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Deconstructing cannibalism
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu: “How the West Came to Rule”, p. 129 However, political and legal questions were not the primary challenge posed by subjugating the Amerindians. Instead, it was...
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