Editors’ Introduction written by Edward Baring and Maliha Safri on behalf of the Editorial Collective.
Edward Baring
Associate professor of history and faculty in the University Center of Human Values at Princeton University. He is the author of The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Converts to the Real: Catholicism and the Making of Continental Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 2019). He is currently working on a transnational history of Marxism.
Neil Levi
Professor of English at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. He is the author of Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification (Fordham University Press, 2014) and coeditor with Michael Rothberg of The Holocaust: Theoretical Readings (Edinburgh/Rutgers University Press, 2003). His scholarship focuses on antisemitism, capitalism, fascism, and contemporary iterations of artistic modernism.
Lars T. Lih
Independent scholar in Montreal. His works include Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914–1921 (University of California Press, 1990), Stalin’s Letters to Molotov (coeditor with Oleg V. Naumov and Oleg V. Khlevniuk; Yale University Press, 1995), Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context (Haymarket, 2008), a short biography entitled Lenin (Reaktion, 2011), and Zinoviev and Martov: Head to Head in Halle (coeditor with Ben Lewis; November Publications, 2011). A collection of his articles entitled What Was Bolshevism? is forthcoming in the Historical Materialism series from Brill.
Peter Kulchyski
Full professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Manitoba and activist with many Indigenous-rights support groups over the decades. His research and teaching focus on law, history, politics, and culture in the far north of Canada. His most recent book is Report on an Inquiry into an Injustice (University of Manitoba Press, 2018).
Yahya M. Madra
Teaches economics and history of economic thought at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, since 2016, and is a psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, since 2022. Prior to 2016, he taught at Skidmore and Gettysburg Colleges and at Boğaziçi University. Since 2019, he has served as a coeditor of Rethinking Marxism. His book Late Neoclassical Economics: The Restoration of Theoretical Humanism in Contemporary Economic Theory was published by Routledge in 2017.
Maliha Safri
Teaches political economy at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Her research has focused on class, and in particular the ways that people engage in collective practices in work, housing, and food. She has published articles in Signs, Antipode, Rethinking Marxism, The Economist’s Voice, Organization, and edited books. She was also a recipient of a National Science Foundation grant, and has a forthcoming coauthored book (Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism and Mapping Transformation) on that research on urban solidarity economies in the U.S.
David Sockol
Historian of modern Europe with a focus on intellectual history. He currently teaches at several colleges in the state of New Jersey, USA.
McKenzie Wark
Professor of culture and media at Eugene Lang College, New York.