Rethinking MARXISM
Template:TOCnestleft Rethinking MARXISM is a journal devoted to Marxist thought that began to be published in the 1980s.
About
The journal described itself as follows: "The aim of "Rethinking MARXISM" is to stimulate interest in and debate over the explanatory power and social consequences of Marxian economic, cultural, and social analysis. To that end, we publish studies that seek to discuss, elaborate, and/or extend Marxian theory. Our concerns include theoretical and philosophical (methodological and epistemological) matters as well as more concrete empirical analyses - all work that leads to the further development of a distinctively Marxian discourse. We encourage contributions from people in many disciplines and from a wide range of perspectives. We are also interested in expanding the diversity of discursive styles for producing and presenting such works."
"One distinguishing aim of this journal is to insure that class is an important part, but not the exclusive focus, of Marxism. We are therefore interested in the complex intersection of class with economic, political, psychological, and all other social processes. Equally important is the task of exploring the particular theories of knowledge that shape Marxian analyses."
"We are interested in promoting Marxian approaches to social theory because we believe that they are an important factor in developing strategies for radical social change - in particular, for an end to class exploitation and the various forms of political, cultural, and psychological oppression (including oppression on the basis of race and gender). We especially welcome research that explores these and related issues from a Marxian perspective."
Personnel
The Summer 1990, Volume 3, Number 2 edition of "Rethinking MARXISM" listed the following as belonging to various Boards and Teams:
Advisory Board
- Michele Barrett
- Rosalyn Baxandall
- Joseph Buttigieg
- Johnnetta Cole - A whole KeyWiki section will be devoted to Cole whose gamut of radical, communist activities runs from being a leader of the DGI/KGB-controlled Venceremos Brigade, the July 4th Coalition and various CPUSA fronts, to being a college professor of Anthropology, the president of the prestigious black Spelman University, and in 2010, being named as the head of the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Afro-American Affairs
- Carmen Diana Deere
- Terry Eagleton
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Fredric Jameson
- Dominique Lecourt
- Rayna Rapp
- Stephen Resnick
- Sheila Rowbotham
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- Cornel West
- Richard Wolff
- Harold Wolpe
Editorial Board
- Jack Amariglio - Editor
- Frank Annunziato
- Carole Biewener
- Antonio Callari
- Ron Caplan
- Stephen Cullenberg
- Jonathan Diskin
- Harriet Fraad
- Julie Graham
- William Olson
- Stephen Resnick
- Bruce Roberts
- John Roche - (not to be confused with the late conservative intellectual and professor, John Roche)
- David Ruccio
- Richard Wolff
Production Team
Contributors to this issue
- Frank R. Annunziato - Assistant Extension Professor at the University of Connecticut Labor Education Center. He spent fifteen years as an elected official and staff member for three unions.
- Antonio Callari - Associate Professor of Economics at Franklin and Marshall College and member of the Editorial Board of "Rethinking MARXISM".
- Harriet Fraad - Marxist Feminist psychoanalyst in the New Haven area, founder of the New Haven Women's Liberation Center, and Marxist Feminist activist since 1968. She is currently working on the subject of incest and class in the feudal family.
- Satyananda Gabriel - Assistant Professor of Economics at Mount Holyoke College, Academic Coordinator of the Rural Development Leadership Network, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Davis, and former Director of Education for the Urban League of Portland, Oregon.
- Lawrence J. Gillooly - Teaches Spanish and Latin American literature in the Department of Modern Languages at Merrimack College], North Andover, Mass. He has travelled extensively in Central and South America.
- Miriam A. Glucksmann - Professor of Sociology at South Bank Polytechnic in London, she defines her perspective as socialist feminist... (and has written under "the pseudonym of Ruth Lavendish for "legal reasons." (Her works were also listed in this biography).
- Christopher Gutkind - Lives in London and works as a Library Assisant
- Michael Hardt - Doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Washington (Seattle) and in Political Science at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis). (A book he worked on was also listed).
- Marta Harnecker - Author of "Los conceptos elementales del materialismo" (1969) now in its 56th printing. "Reflexiones acerca del problema de la transicion al socialismo" (1985), and many other books. Chilean-born, she has resided in Cuba for many years.
- M. Kasper - Works as a librarian, contributes illustrated short-prose to literary magazines, and is author of about six small press books...
- Stephen Resnick - Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Together with Richard Wolff, he is currently working on a class analysis of socialism and communism.
- Joe Schechter - Associate Professor of Dramatic Criticsm at the Yale University School of Drama and Editor of "Theater Magazine", which has published several of Dario Fo's plays Dario Fo. (NB: Fo was an Italian marxist sympathizer who supported European communist terrorist groups, despite his denial of such). He has also been the candidate of the New Haven Green Party Green Party for the Connecticut State Senate.
- Guiseppe Vacca - Director of the Instituto Gramsci in Rome and former Professor of the History of Political Theory. He is a member of parliament and sits on the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party. (More information on his writings included in this biography).
- Aggie H. Vegso - Senior undergraduate at Southern Connecticut State University working toward a degree in English, with a double minor in Feminist Studies and Spanish. She is currently working on a novel written from a Marxist-Feminist perspective which she plans to have completed within two years.
- Richard Wolff - Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Together with Stephen Resnick, he is currently working on a class analysis of socialism and communism.