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This event presents a panel of authors from Marxism and the Capitalist State, an edited collection that builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory. It aims to provoke and encourage new debates and critiques that build on the rich tradition of Marxist analyses of the capitalist state. The chapters share a commitment to an understanding of the specifically capitalist character of the modern state and its significance for any serious discussion of the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations.

With the participation of the following speakers:

Alyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, where she works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in social and political theory. She is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso, 2019), with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.

Jasmine Chorley-Schulz is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on labor, class, and the international. She is a member of the Legal Form editorial collective and teaches political theory and international relations.

Rob Hunter holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the critique of political economy, state theory, and public law. He is a member of the Legal Form editorial collective.

Rafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans Marxism and critical social theory, theories of the state, the history of the social sciences, and post-Soviet and post-communist politics. He is also Associate Faculty with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.

Chris O’Kane teaches political economy at St. John’s University. He works on critical theory. His work has appeared in a number of interdisciplinary journals. Along with Werner Bonefeld, he is co-editor of Adorno and Marx: Negative Dialectics and the Critique of Political Economy (London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2022).

Kirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. The major theme of her research is the overlapping relationships between people, the economy, and the environment. She serves on the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political Economics. Her book, The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, Complicity, was published by Bristol University Press in 2023.