[Commlist] new book series Marxist Social and Cultural Theory

Routledge and the Board of Editors are pleased to announce a new book series

*/Teresa L. Ebert and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh Books in /*

*/Marxist Social and Cultural Theory/*

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Editorial Board: Bret Benjamin, Kimberly DeFazio, Shahrzad Mojab, Rob Wilkie

The task of the series is to advance new social and cultural theories 
grounded in historical materialism and to provide a collective space for 
a new generation of Marxist thinkers in dialogue with the most advanced 
forms of bourgeois thought.

The series is for the new. Not the “new” in bourgeois philosophies. Like 
the representatives of capital in liberal democracies who every “three 
or six years” fight with each other to “represent and repress” people, 
such “new” theories relentlessly compete with each other to design new 
illusions for maintaining the capitalist conditions that require newer 
and newer illusions.

The new in the series is the new of a historical becoming. It strives to 
/comprehend /and /know /its conditions of existence and /understand / 
why “the old system…must come to an end.” The series’ founding arguments 
are that “The mode of production of material life conditions the general 
process of social, political and intellectual life” and determines the 
“relationship of sovereignty and dependence, in short, the specific form 
of state” in a society.

Books in the series contribute to knowledge for conscious, organized 
class struggles to build a different society that crosses the “narrow 
horizon of bourgeois right” and inscribes on its banner “From each 
according to their ability, to each according to their needs!”

The series is critique-al. Bourgeois anti-critique bans critique as a 
negative “digging down” in the “deep dark below.” But, the “negative” 
/is /the becoming of the new, and the “deep dark below” /is /“the hidden 
abode of production” where one sees “not only how capital produces, but 
how capital is itself produced” and “The secret of profit-making” is “at 
last laid bare.”

Situated on the other side of reform-al marxisms (Neo-, Post-, 
Autonomous, Exit, Neue, Accelerationist, Krisis,…), the series overturns 
the libertarian fictions of “the common,” “capital is dead,” “communism 
of capital,” and the digital metaphysics that fashions Walmart as “the 
very anticipatory prototype of some new form of socialism.” Reform-al 
marxism and bourgeois thought (the contemporary expression of which are 
mostly in intersectionality, speculative realism, OOO, ANT, “new 
materialism,” social reproductionism...) are twins of the ruling ideas: 
“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.”

The series explores all Marxist critiques of capitalism, especially 
dialectical inquiries into the capitalist relations of production—its 
class contradictions, (im)material labor, value-form, general intellect, 
the law of value, wages and profits, labor process, climate change, 
imperialism, traveling capital, labor in the diaspora, fall in the rate 
of profit—and their cultural-social consequences. It includes books in 
metatheory as well as those analyzing the material links to struggles 
for the “positive transcendence of private property” and the return of 
humans to themselves as social beings. The series seeks to explain how 
the oppression that is one's daily lived experience as “other” is caused 
not by cultural domination but by exploitation of labor at the point of 
production, by “the silent compulsion of economic relations.”

The series is directed by its Editorial Board of four Marxist scholars 
and coordinated by its Chief Editor, Dean Birkenkamp: 
(Dean.Birkenkamp /at/ taylorandfrancis.com) 
<mailto:(Dean.Birkenkamp /at/ taylorandfrancis.com)> and Managing Editor, 
Michael Gibson: (Michael.Gibson /at/ taylorandfrancis.com) 
<mailto:(Michael.Gibson /at/ taylorandfrancis.com)>.

*Forthcoming*: /Marxism and Pandemic: Materialist Anatomy of a Social 
Crisis/. Ed. Stephen Tumino

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