In this episode, we are joined by political theorist Clyde W. Barrow to revisit the classic debates in Marxist state theory and to consider their renewed relevance in the present conjuncture. Barrow was a guest speaker in the CU State Theory course that

Benjamin Studebaker talks with Class Unity about his new book, “The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way is Shut” (2023).You can find him here: https://benjaminstudebaker.com/about/And his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Chr

Vivek Chibber discusses his latest book, “The Class Matrix” (2022), as well as the so-called “cultural turn”, with Class Unity.You can find his book here: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674245136And you can find Clas

Gary Roth talks to Class Unity about class, higher education, and consciousness. Gary teaches Sociology at Rutgers University. He is the author of “The Educated Underclass” (Pluto, 2019) and “Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Pau

Paul Mattick Jr. talks with Class Unity about his new book, “The Return of Inflation” (2023), about money, capital, capitalism, class, politics, and inflation.See the following interview for details about his latest book: https://brooklynr

Sarah Knuth talks to Class Unity about rentiers, the political economy of green energy, neoliberalism, and capitalism.You can find her essay here: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1215052And here: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/cu

Thomas Fazi talks with Class Unity about the politics and economics as well as the problems of the European Union and issues with the contemporary left.He is the author of:“The Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor: A

In this episode, we discuss geopolitics and the emerging age of multipolarity with Dr. Christopher Mott, Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy. Dr. Mott is an international relations scholar specializing in historical geopolitics, gra

Prof. Steve Keen talks with Class Unity about the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-8, the problems with mainstream understandings of it, and the contemporary situation.He is the author of:The New Economics. A manifesto. Polity. (2021)Can We Avoid Anoth

Walter Benn Michaels talks about the present political moment with Class Unity.You can find one of our favorite essays by him here: https://nonsite.org/the-political-economy-of-anti-racism/And you can find his most recent book with Adolph Reed Jr.