Historical Materialism

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mario wrote:
> Dear Louis Proyect / What you think about this texts? I dont know the
> autors./ Mário
>
> NEW HISTORICAL MATERIALISM BOOK SERIES:
> Editorial board: Sebastian Budgen,  Paul Blackledge, Vivek Chibber, Stathis
> Kouvelakis, Marcel van der Linden, China Mieville, Tony Smith.
>
> Ten years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disappearance of
> Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, there is a need for a serious and
> long-term book publishing programme. Subjected to the whims of fashion, most
> contemporary publishers have abandoned any systematic production of Marxist
> theoretical work. The HM book series addresses this great gap with original
> monographs, translated texts and reprints of original classical works. At
> least three titles will be published every year.

Well, Sebastian Budgen is a Marxmail subscriber, so that gives him a leg up
considering all the hostility to academic Marxism generated here, most of
it from me. I have just about every copy of HM that's been published and I
guess it can best be described as a journal dedicated to classical Marxism.
It has all the usual suspects, from Ellen Meiksins Wood to Alex Callinicos,
contributing. I think they are doing good work, although I sometimes wonder
if it is much different from Science and Society and other such venues that
provide a space for left professors to get their names in print. I strongly
suspect and hope that at some point print journals will be superseded by
the Internet altogether, a much more lively and interactive medium.




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