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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
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    economists. According to Rosenberg, Milton Friedman's positive methodology is being supplanted by Lakatos's methodology of scientific research programs (MSRP). At any rate, the Kuhnian wave of the seventies is being swallowed up by the Lakatosian program. (Redman 142) There have been a number of attempts to comprehend mainstream (bourgeois) economics as a Lakatosian research program, or as a set of competing research programs. (Latsis, ed. passim; de Marchi and Blaug, eds.)i In contrast, the ext…Read more
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    When, where, and how should the promotion of human rights and democracy abroad figure in American foreign policy? A compelling way for liberals to influence this debate is to underscore a Wilsonian agenda's relevance to national security
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    In the Marxian theory of capital the term "dialectics" refers primarily to three endeavours: the systematic reconstruction of the essential determinations of capital (systematic dialectics), the reconstruction of the main lines of capitalist development (a species of historical dialectics), and the dialectics of theory and practice. In the first section of this paper I shall discuss some essential features of systematic dialectics in..
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    The main argument in favor of neoliberalism is simple enough: individuals will freely exchange whenever mutual gains result. It follows that restricting trade and investment across borders both infringes liberty and prevents people from enjoying benefits. At this point an appeal is made to historical evidence: previously poor regions have lifted more people out of poverty at a faster rate than ever before in human history by opening up to trade and investment. Neoliberal theorists and policy mak…Read more
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    In a world where exploitation and uneven development condemn billions to suffering, the proper understanding of the intellectual relationship between Hegel and Marx appears a small matter indeed. Marx‟s Capital, however, remains the single most important text for comprehending the system that generates this suffering. The question of the proper reading of this work thus remains important. Sooner or later this brings us to the Hegel/Marx question. In a recent article in Science and Society John R…Read more
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    Biotechnology and global justice
    Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 11 (3): 219-242. 1999.
    Agricultural biotechnology is a social pursuit, undertaken by social agents within social institutions.1 Any attempt to explore the social dimensions of a profound and complex technological development such as biotechnology is bound to be controversial, and any attempt to formulate an ethical assessment of such a development is bound to be yet more complex and controversial. This surely explains why many choose to ignore these inquiries. But the social dimensions of biotechnology are just as rea…Read more