Political Marxism

Political Marxism (PM) is a strand of Marxist theory that places history at the centre of its analysis. It was developed as a reaction against ahistorical models of Marxist analysis in the debate on the origins of capitalism. The PM critique brought social agency and class conflict to the center of Marxism. In this context, Robert Brenner and Ellen Wood founded PM as a distinct approach to rehistoricise and repoliticise the Marxist project. It was a movement away from structuralist and timeless accounts towards historical specificity as contested process and lived praxis.

This research programme has expanded across the social sciences to include the fields of history, political theory, political economy, sociology, international relations and international political economy.

Researchers linked with PM today include Benno Teschke, Hannes Lacher and George Comninel.

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