Heterodox Marxisms

Session Submission Type: Virtual Roundtable

Session Description

It has become somewhat of a truism that the 2007 crisis has led to a revival of Marxism. Moreover, as Paul Mattick Jr has pointed out, “The disappearance of Soviet Communism has freed” Marx’s “work from the carapace of state ideology” … “the present is a golden age of Marxist scholarship.” As Mattick and this periodization indicate, the past decade and a half have indeed seen a flowering of new interpretations of Marx and Marx’s conceptions of domination and freedom (Heinrich, Roberts, Hagglund). Marxist theories of the state, law, social reproduction, ecology and crisis have also emerged during this time (see Moore, Bellamy Foster, SRT, Fraser). Finally, the rediscovery or the development of new perspectives on Marxist thinkers such as Lise Vogel, Simone Weil, Franz Fanon, Louis Atlhusser and Theodor W. Adorno have also occurred. This roundtable takes up and discusses these developments in regard to the following questions and more: what is orthodox Marxism? What is heterodox Marxism? how do the new readings of Marx and Marxism interpret Marx and prominent Marxist thinkers? What insights and perspective do they offer for social and political theory and emancipatory politics today?

Sub Unit

• Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory

Chair

• Scott Benjamin Ritner SUNY Potsdam

Presenters

• Robyn Marasco CUNY, Hunter College

• William Clare Roberts McGill University

• Chris O'Kane University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Scott Benjamin Ritner SUNY Potsdam