Viewpoint Magazine
Internationalizing Marx: An Interview with Jan Hoff
Most Germans interested in Marx’s critique of political economy barely take into account the debates that took place in foreign languages. Writing Marx global was a counterreaction to this lacuna.
Class Size and Class Struggle: Organizing Lessons from the UCSC Strike
“I appreciate the calm and professional manner in which UC police handled this morning’s challenge,” wrote Executive Vice Chancellor Alison Galloway in an official email about our April 2-3 strike at the University of California.
Between the Ivory Tower and the Assembly Line
As academics began to debate Nicholas Kristof’s recent attack on their profession, I was interviewing a few of the literally thousands of American radicals who left the university for the factory in the 1970s.
Real Revolutionaries Carry a Banjo
It struck me in the months afterwards that Pete Seeger embodied two of the most important characteristics I value in a revolutionary. He truly believed in the power of ordinary people to act for social change on a mass level.
Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms – Ways of Reading Marx’s Theory
The objective of the following observations is to offer a rough overview of central ways of reading Marx’s theory. These are to be presented – by means of a few selected topics – as Marxisms that can be relatively clearly delimited from one another.