''Rethinking Marxism'' is a quarterly

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covering Marxist analyses of economics, culture, and society. It was established in 1988 and has been published by

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since 2003 on behalf of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis. The

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are Yahya M. Madra and Vincent Lyon-Callo.

History

Founded mainly by the professors and graduate students of the Department of Economics at the

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, the first issue of ''Rethinking Marxism'' appeared in 1988, just before the dissolution of the

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began. The journal quickly became an influential academic platform for

Althusserian Marxism Louis Pierre Althusser (, ; ; 16 October 1918 – 22 October 1990) was a French Marxist philosopher. He was born in Algeria and studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. Althusser ...

in the North American context.See and also Even though the journal was launched by a group of economists (among others, Stephen Resnick, Richard D. Wolff, Jack Amariglio, David Ruccio) and continues to regularly publish articles in the various sub-fields of Marxist economics, such as the

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, class analysis, and

crisis theory Crisis theory, concerning the causes and consequences of the tendency for the rate of profit to fall in a capitalist system, is associated with Marxian critique of political economy, and was further popularised through Marxist economics. Hi ...

, ''Rethinking Marxism'' does not have an exclusive economics focus. It is a journal of

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that makes it a point to rethink and develop Marxist analyses of

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and alternatives to capitalism. ''Rethinking Marxism'' is also known for its sustained efforts to showcase

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practices. Each issue of the journal presents an original work by a contemporary artist (e.g., Martha Rosler, Mark Lombardi, Michael Rakowitz, Thomas Hirschhorn, Chto Delat). From 1989 to 1998, the editor of the journal was Jack Amariglio. From 1998 to 2010, David Ruccio served as editor. He was succeeded by S. Charusheela (2010 to 2013), Who was then followed by Marcus E. Green and Serap Kayatekin (2013-2019). The current editors of the journal are Yahya M. Madra and Vincent Lyon-Callo.

Abstracting and indexing

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References

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