Encounters

Clusters around this theme produce research on Marxism’s potential, actual, and missed encounters with other forms of leftist theory and practice (e.g. anarchism, feminism, tricontinentalism, Black and indigenous radicalisms). This is also where lab members explore Marxism’s role in past and present struggles against colonialism, fascism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity, as well as its contributions to historical and contemporary movements calling for – among other things – full decolonization, bodily autonomy, environmental justice, and prison abolition.  

Image Credits (in order of appearance): Diego Rivera, “La minería,” Secretary of Public Education, CDMX; Ni Una Menos, “8M,” http://niunamenos.org.ar/audiovisual/fotos/8m/; Cecilia Secreto; Arianna Afsari, “Toda poesía es hostil al capitalismo,” Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos, Buenos Aires