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    Global justice
    with Kelti Cameron and Senior Officer
    Science and Society 67 (2). 2003.
  • REVIEWS-Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account
    with Joseph McCamey
    Radical Philosophy 141 50. 2007.
  • Introduction
    with Bertell Ollman
    In Bertell Ollman & Tony Smith (eds.), Dialectics for the new century, Palgrave-macmillan. 2008.
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    Towards a systematic dialectic of globalization
    In Bertell Ollman & Tony Smith (eds.), Dialectics for the new century, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 179--198. 2008.
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    This book is quite simply the best study of the "young Marx" (pre-1848) and his immediate predecessors I have ever read. For supporters of the ancient régime in the first half of the nineteenth century, the failure of the French Revolution meant that everything could now go back to “normal.” But for the thinkers Kouvelakis examines — Kant, Hegel, Heine, Hess, Engels, and Marx — the Revolution’s promise of emancipation was merely deferred, not defeated. What exactly did that mean? Answers differe…Read more
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    Marx’s Hegel (And the Hegel Marx Missed)
    In Kaveh Boveiri (ed.), L’héritage de Hegel - Hegel’s Legacy, Les Presses De L’université De Laval. pp. 115-127. 2022.
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    Dialectics for the new century (edited book)
    with Bertell Ollman
    Palgrave-Macmillan. 2008.
    This anthology contains some of the more important Marxist thinkers now working on dialectics. As a whole the book is an unusual 'Introduction to Dialectics', a systematic restatement of what it is and how to use it, a survey of most of the main debates in the field, and a good picture of the current state of the art of dialectics
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    On Joseph McCarney's Hegel on History
    Historical Materialism 9 (1): 217-225. 2001.
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    The Postmodern Marx (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (1): 135-136. 2003.
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    Review of Hegel and History by Joe McCarney (review)
    Historical Materialism 9 (1): 217-25. 2001.
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    On the Homology Thesis
    Historical Materialism 11 (1): 185-194. 2003.
    Chris Arthur‟s body of work counts as a very important and original contribution to systematic dialectics, and I have profited immensely from his writings over the years. However we disagree on a number of points. Some have to do with the relatively secondary question of the intellectual relationship between Hegel and Marx; others involve more substantive matters. In his reply to my review of Joseph McCarney‟s Hegel on History Arthur distinguishes three different versions of the thesis that ther…Read more
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    Marx, Marxism and Utopia (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 350-351. 2004.
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    Marx’s Hegelian Critique of Hegel
    Philosophica: International Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (54): 11-32. 2019.
    Hegel conceptualized the capitalist economy as a system of needs, with commodities and money serving as means to human ends. While anticipating Marx’s criticisms of certain tendencies in capitalism, Hegel insisted that higher-order institutions, especially those of the modern state, could put them out of play and establish a reconciliation of universality, particularity, and individuality warranting rational affirmation. Hegel, however, failed to comprehend the emergence of capital as a dominant…Read more
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    Marxism and the Leap to the Kingdom of Freedom (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (4): 132-133. 2004.
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    Hegel's Logic and Marx's Concept of Capital
    Hegel Bulletin 43 (2): 278-290. 2022.
    Arash Abazari's Hegel's Ontology of Power is a superb study of the relevance of Hegel's logic to Marx's theory. Hegel is often dismissed by Marxists as an ‘idealist’ denying the reality of the world, as if Hegel were Bishop Berkeley with a German accent.1 Abazari recognizes this is not the case: ‘(T)he logical categories are not self-standing, but shadow, or track, the empirical world’ (Abazari 2020: 7). But the world in its full actuality does not simply consist of the objects we sense or perce…Read more
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    Human Flourishing and the Concept of Capital
    Social Theory and Practice 32 (1): 137-154. 2006.
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    Analytical Marxism (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 36 (1): 267-268. 2004.
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    Segregation That No One Seeks
    Philosophy of Science 79 (1): 38-62. 2012.
    This paper examines a series of Schelling-like models of residential segregation, in which agents prefer to be in the minority. We demon- strate that as long as agents care about the characteristics of their wider community, they tend to end up in a segregated state. We then investigate the process that causes this, and conclude that the result hinges on the similarity of informational states amongst agents of the same type. This is quite dierent from Schelling-like behavior, and sug- gests (in …Read more
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    Hegelian method
    with Joseph Mc Carney
    Historical Materialism 9 217-225. 2001.
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    The Specter of Capitalism and the Promise of a Classless Society (review)
    International Studies in Philosophy 31 (4): 141-142. 1999.
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    A Reply to Fine, Lapavitsas and Milonakis
    Historical Materialism 6 (1): 139-144. 2000.
    I should like to thank Ben Fine, Costas Lapavitsas and Dimitris Milonakis for their stimulating and detailed comments. In the limited space available, I cannot respond to every criticism. A number of criticisms appear to be a matter of mere semantics. In the Marxian literature, the term ‘crisis’ is often used to refer to extended downturns as well as to short and sharp declines. And Marx himself defines the organic composition of capital as the value composition considered ‘in so far as this is …Read more
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    The first part of this book (“Social Waste and Non-Commodity Waste, and the Individual Circuit of Capital”) will probably be of most interest to readers of this journal. The author argues that Marx’s formula for individual circuits of capital does not allow a fully adequate comprehension of capitalism. Marx discusses the initial money capital invested (M), the commodity inputs purchased with investment capital (C), the production process (P), the new commodities produced (C’), and the money appr…Read more
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    Brenner and Crisis Theory: Issues in Systematic and Historical Dialectics
    Historical Materialism 5 (1): 145-178. 1999.
    Tony Smith Philosophy, Iowa State University Robert Brenner‟s recent monograph on the economics of global turbulence has renewed interest in one of the most important topics in Marxian thought, the theory of crisis tendencies in capitalism.1 In their introduction to Brenner‟s monograph the editors of The New Left Review praise him as a worthy successor to Marx in the strongest possible terms. In the eyes of a number of critics, however, Brenner is guilty of a major betrayal of Marx‟s legacy. In …Read more