Enfu Chenga and Zhihua Zhanb
 
aSchool of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China; bSchool of Marxism, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
 
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the issue of historical figures (influential people, mainly leaders who stand out in history) “making history.” Accordingly, it proposes and demon......

Nicholas Kiersey &William Sokoloff
The question of tactics in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism was the theme of the February 24–26, 2019, Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) conference held at South Padre Island, Texas.1 The conference site itself, located just miles away from the United States (US) and Mexico border in the Rio Grande ......

 
Jack Rasmus
 
ABSTRACT
Throughout the twentieth century, American capitalism has proved strategically flexible and successful at periodically restructuring itself to take advantage of global opportunities that arose due to world wars, economic crises, and technological change and innovation. On three major occasions in the twentieth century, the ......

 
James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer
 
ABSTRACT
With the onset of the so-called ¡°global financial crisis¡± in 2008 the world capitalist system suffered a shock that shook its very foundations, threatening the functioning of key financial institutions and the economies at the center of the system. However, the crisis merely served to restructur......

 
Daniel Bin
 
ABSTRACT
The dawn of capitalism was marked by what Marx referred to as primitive accumulation. Nevertheless, similar processes of dispossession of the means of subsistence and production continue until today. Capitalism cannot be sustained if additional means of production and growing availability of labor-power are not integrated i......

Chris Gilligan
 
Abstract
Anti-immigrant racism has become a prominent issue in Northern Ireland since 1998. It is an issue that is routinely understood and tackled through a ¡®race relations¡¯ framework. The first part of this article outlines and discusses the data on immigration and on recorded racist incidents in Northern Ireland, ......

Timothy J. Berard, James K. Meeker
   
Abstract
Culture has increasingly been analyzed ironically in relation to social conflict, emphasizing themes of ideology, co-optation, and complicity in reproducing inequalities. Arguably the most sophisticated ironic cultural critique is provided by Bourdieu. Bourdieu¡¯s critique is often criticized f......

 
John Eustice O¡¯Brien
 
Abstract
In his Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty (2019) deepens and broadens his historical and material analysis of the institutional sources of wealth and income inequality. Fueled by an expanded data base, he extends his position to cover the globe. In his earlier work, he disavowed Kuznets, demonstrating tha......

 
M. Omar Faruque
 
Abstract
Contemporary scholarship on neoliberal globalization and countermovement tends to focus on the global dimension of political struggles. The role of nationalist imaginaries in mobilizing grievances against neoliberal globalization receives little attention in this literature. This article probes these ideas using the ca......

Minsun Ji
 
Abstract
To shed light on polarized perspectives regarding the virtues or downfalls of worker cooperatives among variants of Marxists, this article focuses on Marx¡¯s own Janus-faced analysis of worker cooperatives. Marx had great faith in the radical potential of worker cooperatives, properly organized and politically oriented, ......