''Rethinking Marxism'' is a quarterly

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covering

Marxist Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...

analyses of economics, culture, and society. It was established in 1988 and has been published by

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since 2003 on behalf of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. The

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are Yahya M. Madra and Vincent Lyon-Callo.

History

Founded mainly by the professors and graduate students of the Department of Economics at the

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, the first issue of ''Rethinking Marxism'' appeared in 1988, just before the dissolution of the

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began. The journal quickly became an influential academic platform for Althusserian Marxism in the North American context.See and also Even though the journal was launched by a group of economists (among others, Stephen Resnick, Richard D. Wolff, Jack Amariglio, David Ruccio) and continues to regularly publish articles in the various sub-fields of

Marxist economics Marxian economics, or the Marxian school of economics, is a Heterodox economics, heterodox school of political economic thought. Its foundations can be traced back to Karl Marx, Karl Marx's Critique of political economy#Marx's critique of politi ...

, such as the

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, class analysis, and

crisis theory Crisis theory, concerning the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system, is associated with Marxian critique of political economy, and was further popularised through Marxist economics. His ...

, ''Rethinking Marxism'' does not have an exclusive economics focus. It is a journal of

Marxist theory Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew f ...

that makes it a point to rethink and develop Marxist analyses of

capitalism Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their use for the purpose of obtaining profit. This socioeconomic system has developed historically through several stages and is defined by ...

imperialism Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of Power (international relations), power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultura ...

and alternatives to capitalism. ''Rethinking Marxism'' is also known for its sustained efforts to showcase

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practices. Each issue of the journal presents an original work by a contemporary artist (e.g., Martha Rosler, Mark Lombardi, Michael Rakowitz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Chto Delat). From 1989 to 1998, the editor of the journal was Jack Amariglio. From 1998 to 2010, David Ruccio served as editor. He was succeeded by S. Charusheela (2010–2013), Who was then followed by Marcus E. Green and Serap Kayatekin (2013–2019). The current editors of the journal are Yahya M. Madra and Vincent Lyon-Callo.

Abstracting and indexing

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References

External links

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