What is Western Marxism?

Explaining the Dire State of the Western Left

Radhika Desai

The Western left is in decline due to ideological capitulation, imperial compromises, and transformation into parties of corporate establishment.

Feb 21, 2026

Western Marxism and the Myth of Capitalism's Adamantine Chains

John Bellamy Foster|Monthly Review

Western Marxism abandoned revolutionary praxis by accepting capitalism's 'adamantine chains' and adopting a defeatist view of history.

Feb 1, 2026

Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn

Domenico Losurdo

Western Marxism: How It Was Born, How It Died, How It Can Be Reborn is a paradigm-shifting book that provides a trenchant critique of the Western left intelligentsia.

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?

Gabriel Rockhill

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? offers a crash course in the history of imperialist propaganda, as well as in the Marxist method for analyzing culture and ideology.

A Critique of Western Marxism

Red Pen

Contrasts Western Marxism with Marxism-Leninism, defending China's socialist market reforms through the lens of historical materialism.

Apr 19, 2026

The Political Economy of Western Marxism

Gabriel Rockhill|Critical Theory Workshop

Gabriel Rockhill examines the political economy underlying Western Marxist thought.

May 29, 2026

The Third Wave of Socialism

Wenhua Zongheng (文化纵横)

China's socialism with Chinese characteristics represents a third wave of socialism reshaping the global order amid capitalism's crises.

Dec 19, 2023

Imperial Marxism and the Political Economy of Knowledge Production

Journal of International Solidarity

Gabriel Rockhill discusses how Imperial Marxism came to dominate Western academia and where space exists for anti-imperialists to intervene in this intellectual industry.

Mar 16, 2026

Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? D.C. Launch

Gabriel Rockhill|Critical Theory Workshop

Gabriel Rockhill presents his book on how the Frankfurt School served as imperialist propaganda, arguing for an anti-imperialist Marxist approach to ideology.

Feb 23, 2026

The Long Transition Toward Socialism and the End of Capitalism

Red Ant

This review analyzes Torkil Lauesen's book examining historical revolutions and current geopolitical shifts toward multipolarity and socialist transition.

Apr 15, 2025

China and the Purity Fetish of Western Marxism

Carlos L. Garrido|Orinoco Tribune

Critiques Western Marxists' purity fetish that prevents them from recognizing China's socialist achievements and its role in the anti-imperialist struggle.

Oct 7, 2023

The Sun Does Not Rise From The West. A Review of Domenico Losurdo's Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, and How it Can be Reborn

Brendan Duncan-Shah|Red Ant

This review critiques Western Marxism for neglecting anti-colonial struggles and argues for its rebirth through reconnection with global revolutionary traditions.

Jan 8, 2025