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09/21/2026

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In the work of Antonio Gramsci, a potential hegemony of the subalte...

05/15/2026

The latest Althusser volume has arrived

04/25/2026

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03/23/2026

Laurent De Sutter's collection of essays on "Althusser and Law" (Routledge, 2013) has been translated into Turkish. The edited volume contains essays by Yoshiyuki Sato, Warren Montag, Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop, David Marrani, William S Lewis, David McInerney, Adam Geary, Dimitra Panopoulos and Kyle McGee.

03/14/2026

Ten years on, what would it mean to read political thought as a record of struggle, not a museum of ideas?

03/14/2026

Forthcoming in paperback from Haymarket

10/28/2025

With Historical Materialism Athens – I'm on a streak! I've been a top fan for 10 months in a row. 🎉

10/16/2025

"Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory." - Louis Althusser Louis Althusser (October 16, 1918 - October 22, 1990) was a philosopher, writer, and leading intellectual of the French Communist Party. To honor the works he produced in his lifetime, we're offering 30%....

10/07/2025

On the occasion of our Editor's retirement.

As a student at Palisades High School in 1969, Warren Montag participated in a walkout to protest the Vietnam War. “I wasn't consistently politically active at that time, but looking back, I would say that was an important experience,” he says. After the walkout, he and his classmates went to a ...

05/17/2025

“Barbarie — Civilisation” is an illustration by René Georges Hermann-Paul, which was first published in 1899 in Le Cri de Paris magazine at the start of the Boxer Rebellion in China.

It was accompanied by the following caption:

“It’s all a matter of perspective. When a Chinese coolie strikes a French soldier the result is a public cry of ‘Barbarity!’ But when a French soldier strikes a coolie, it’s a necessary blow for civilization.”