Advancing the Frontiers of Marxist Philosophy

In an era of escalating geopolitical tensions, ecological collapse, and the relentless reorganization of capital, the need for robust and politically potent Marxist theory is greater than ever. This call for papers seeks contributions that map contemporary debates within Marxist philosophy and actively intervene in them. Our goal is to move beyond scholarly exposition and instead foster a collective effort to advance these debates theoretically and push them politically forward.

We encourage interventions that engage with the central philosophical and political fault lines running through contemporary Marxist thought. Papers should aim for more than describing these debates; rather challenging them to move beyond perceived impasses. How do competing conceptions and terrains of ontology, dialectics, subjectivity, phenomenology and all the other related debates inform our strategic understanding of the key conceptions like state, class composition, and revolutionary agency today? We welcome papers that grapple with these foundational issues, aiming to generate new syntheses and strategic clarity for the challenges of the 21st century.

We welcome explorations into other vital controversies, including, but not limited to:

Foundational Rifts:  The Hegelian-Spinozist divide; the legacies and limits of Western and non-Western Marxisms, the analytic versus continental Marxist traditions.

The Subject of Politics: Theories of contemporary class composition, the concept of the “precariat,” the party form versus horizontalist movements, and populism versus class-based politics.

Intersectionality and Totality: Reassessing the relationship between race, gender, and class beyond additive models; the philosophy of “Articulation” and how different forms of oppression are woven into the totality of capital.

Aesthetics and Resistance: The role of art and cultural production in an age of real subsumption; marxist approaches to the critique of ideology in digital media; the philosophy of utopia and the prefiguration of alternative futures: the role of utopian philosophy in envisioning alternative futures.

We seek interventions that are comradely polemical, which share the goal of clarification and advancement. By confronting these philosophical stakes head-on, we can collectively create an environment where we can refine the tools needed to analyze our present and organize for a future beyond capital.