Kevin B. Anderson

Janet Afary

In 1978, as the protests against the Shah of Iran reached their zenith, philosopher Michel Foucault was working as a special correspondent for Corriere della Sera and le Nouvel Observateur. During his little-known stint as a journalist, Foucault traveled to Iran, met with leaders like Ayatollah Khomeini, and wrote a series of articles on the revolution. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution is the first book-length analysis of these essays on Iran, the majority of which have never before appeared in English. Accompanying the analysis are annotated translations of the Iran writings in their entirety and the at times blistering responses from such contemporaneous critics as Middle East scholar Maxime Rodinson as well as comments on the revolution by feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir. In this important and controversial account, Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson illuminate Foucault's support of the Islamist movement. They also show how Foucault's experiences in Iran contributed to a turning point in his thought, influencing his ideas on the Enlightenment, homosexuality, and his search for political spirituality. Foucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11. Foucault's provocative writings are thus essential for understanding the history and the future of the West's relationship with Iran and, more generally, to political Islam. In their examination of these journalistic pieces, Afary and Anderson offer a surprising glimpse into the mind of a celebrated thinker.

Gender and the Seductions of Islamism

Foucault and the Iranian Revolution

Kieran Durkin

Heather A. Brown

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century’s great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers. Her unique philosophy and practice of Marxist-Humanism—as well as her grasp of Hegelian dialectics and the deep humanism that informs Marx’s thought—has much to teach us today. From her account of state capitalism (part of her socio-economic critique of Stalinism, fascism, and the welfare state), to her writings on Rosa Luxemburg, Black and women’s liberation, and labor, we are offered indispensable resources for navigating the perils of sexism, racism, capitalism, and authoritarianism. This collection of essays, from a diverse group of writers, brings to life Dunayevskaya’s important contributions. Revisiting her rich legacy, the contributors to this volume engage with her resolute Marxist-Humanist focus and her penetrating dialectics of liberation that is connected to Black, labor, and women’s liberation and to struggles over alienation and exploitation the world over. Dunayevskaya’s Marxist-Humanism is recovered for the twenty-first century and turned, as it was with Dunayevskaya herself, to face the multiple alienations and de-humanizations of social life.

Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

Raya Dunayevskaya's Intersectional Marxism

Bertell Ollman

Çağdaş Marksist düşüncenin önde gelen iki ismi Bertell Ollman ve Kevin B. Anderson, sekiz temel başlık altında, Marksizm cephesinde yirminci yüzyıl boyunca kaleme alınmış en çarpıcı metinleri bir araya getiriyor. Başlıklar da hayli kapsamlı: Kuram ve Yöntem; Ekonomi Politik; Devlet ve Siyaset; Birey ve Toplum; Kültür ve Din; Tarih; Sömürgecilik, Irk ve Cinsiyet; Çevrebilim. Elbette, tüm bu başlıklar altında değerlendirilebilecek, yirminci yüzyıl boyunca kaleme alınmış onlarca değerli kitap, yüzlerce önemli makale var. Ancak Ollman ve Anderson öyle bir seçki sunuyorlar ki, her bir başlık altında, kritik dönemeçlerde yeni yollar açmış, “çığır ve zihin açıcı” ya da “başlatıcı” diyebileceğimiz yazılar bir araya geliyor. Böylece “Kuram ve Yöntem” başlığında Georg Lukács ve Raya Dunayevskaya'ya, “Ekonomi Politik” başlığında David Harvey ve Immanuel Wallerstein'a, “Devlet ve Siyaset” başlığında Ernest Mandel'e ve Nicos Poulantzas ile Ralph Miliband'ın ünlü tartışmasına, “Birey ve Toplum” başlığında Ellen Meiksins Wood ve Michael D. Yates'e, “Kültür ve Din” başlığında Fredric Jameson ve Ishay Landa'ya, “Tarih” başlığında E.P. Thompson ve Perry Anderson'a, “Sömürgecilik, Irk ve Cinsiyet” başlığında C.L.R. James ve Nancy Hartsock'a, “Çevrebilim” başlığında John Bellamy Foster ve Paul Burkett'e ve toplamda otuz bir yazara misafir oluyoruz. Sonuçta karşımıza, yaşadığımız çağı çok boyutlu ve kapsamlı bir Marksist yaklaşımla kavrayıp anlamak için vazgeçilmez bir kaynak kitap çıkıyor. Bertell Ollman ve Kevin B. Anderson'ın hazırladığı bu eşsiz çağdaş Marksizm seçkisini, özenli bir çeviriyle sunuyoruz.

Yüzyıla Damga Vuran Metinler

Çağdaş Marksizm Seçkisi

Kevin Anderson, Marx Sınırlarda kitabında Marx’ın titizlikle kaleme almış olduğu, kapsamlı, ancak yıllar içerisinde ihmal edilmiş metinlerini farklı bir gözle ve ayrıntılı bir biçimde ele alarak, onun tüm eserleri hakkında gerçekte ne bildiğimiz sorusuna sarsıcı yeni bir ışık tutuyor. Marx’ın Kapital’in Fransızca basımı için yaptığı değişiklikler, New York Tribune için yaptığı gazetecilik çalışmaları, diğer gazete yazıları ve tuttuğu kitap notları ile yorumları da dahil olmak üzere bütün metinlerini titizlikle inceleyen Anderson, alışageldiğimiz yorumlarla pek örtüşmeyen bir Marx portresiyle çıkıyor karşımıza. Marx’ın Hindistan’dan Çin’e, Rusya’dan Polonya’ya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nden İrlanda ve Cezayir’e, o dönem kapitalizmin çeperinde kalan ülke ve toplumlar hakkında kaleme aldığı binlerce sayfalık yazıyı didik didik ederek, “kapitalizmin farklı coğrafyalarda nasıl bir gelişim seyri izleyebileceği”, “ilkel ortaklaşmacı biçimlerin yeni olanaklar yaratıp yaratamayacağı” gibi konularda 1848’den 1883’e değişen görüşlerini de özetliyor. Anderson’un bize sunduğu Marx, fikirlerini salt sınıfa dayandıran bir düşünür değil, tam bir 21. yüzyıl aydını olarak beliriyor: Toplum eleştirisi insanın sosyal ve tarihsel gelişimindeki çeşitliliklere duyarlı, sınıfın yanında ulus, ırk ve etnisiteyi de değerlendiren bir teorisyen. Marx’ın farklı çalışmalarının derinlikli bir okumasını sunan kitap, Marx çalışmalarını da aşan hararetli yeni tartışmaları ateşleyeceği muhakkak, çığır açıcı ve kabullerimizi değiştirecek yeni bir Karl Marx portresi ortaya koyuyor…

Etnisite, Ulus, Ulusçuluk ve Batı Dışı Toplumlar

Marx Sınırlarda

Marx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. Unfortunately, there are relatively few clear accounts of what this approach is and how to put it to use. And, despite the many attempts to use Marx's method to study a variety of subjects, there are relatively few that can serve as useful models. In the present volume, the internationally renowned Marxist scholar, Bertell Ollman, and the social theorist Kevin B. Anderson, have brought together a sampling of the best writings of the past hundred years that illustrate and critique Marx's method as well as explain what it is and how to put it to work. Anyone wishing to understand better Marx's dialectical method (along, of course, with the theories created with its help), or to revise this method or to criticize it, or to use it in their own work will find this collection invaluable.

Karl Marx

Back in print with a comprehensive new introduction by the author, Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism is the classic account of Lenin's extensive writings on Hegel in relationship to his theorization of imperialism, the state, and revolution.

A critical Study

Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism

In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by the well-known political economist which cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with our conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Marx at the Margins ultimately argues that alongside his overarching critique of capital, Marx created a theory of history that was multi-layered and not easily reduced to a single model of development or revolution. Through highly-informed readings on work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond.

On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Marx at the Margins

In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879–82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking.

Russell Rockwell

This volume contains the correspondence during the years 1954 to 1978 between Marxist-Humanist and feminist philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-87) and the Hegelian Marxist philosopher and social theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) and the psychologist and social critic Erich Fromm (1900-80). The exchanges show the deeply Marxist and humanist concerns of these theorists while also highlighting their significant differences on key issues in philosophy, politics, and psychology during the turbulent decades of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.

Kevin B. Anderson

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