Marxism and the Capitalist State

A lively discussion with the editors and several contributors to the just-released Marxism and the Capitalist State: Towards a New Debate. The collected essays combine general theoretical reappraisals with investigations of contemporary challenges, including new technologies, the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, and changes in social reproduction. This project began from a shared commitment to understanding the specifically capitalist character of the modern state in relation to the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations.

Our panel will feature the book’s three editors:
Rob Hunter holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, USA. He is a member of the Legal Form editorial collective.
Rafael Khachaturian is a Lecturer in Critical Writing at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Eva Nanopoulos is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Nanopoulos co-edits the blog Legal Form and she co-directs the Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context and co-founded its “Law and Marxism” series.
And joining them we will have four contributors:
Alyssa Battistoni, “State, Capital, Nature: State Theory for the Capitalocene”
Nate Holdren, “Social Murder: Capitalism’s Systematic and State-Organized Killing”
Chris O’Kane, “The Marx Revival and State Theory: Towards a Negative-Dialectical Critical Social Theory of the State”
Steve Maher, “From Economic to Political Crisis: Trump and the Neoliberal State”