Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950 in Southern Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe) is a Trotskyist political theorist, a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party, and is Director of the Centre for European Studies at King's College London.
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Biography
Callinicos is a descendant, through his mother, of the 19th century English historian Lord Acton. During World War II his Greek father was active in the Greek Resistance to Nazi occupation, whilst his mother, Hon. Ædgyth Bertha Milburg Mary Antonia Frances Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, was a member of the British aristocracy[1].
Callinicos himself first became involved in revolutionary politics as a student at Balliol College, Oxford, from which he received his BA. His first writings for the International Socialists (forerunners of the SWP) was an analysis of the student movement of the period. In 1977, Callinicos married Joanna Seddon,[2] a fellow Oxford doctoral student. He received a DPhil from Oxford.
His writings soon established him in socialist and academic circles as an expert on southern Africa and the French structuralist-Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. In the early 1980s Callinicos, who is regarded as a talented public speaker, was elected to the central committee of the SWP, a position he retains today. In recent years he has been responsible for the SWP’s international work, but he has seen a number of splits in the International Socialist Tendency’s affiliated groups.
Callinicos participated in the Counter-Summit to the IMF/World Bank Meeting in Prague, September 2000 and the demonstration against the G8 in Genoa, June 2001. He has also been involved in organising the Social Forum movement in Europe. He was a contributor to Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain (2001),[3] and has written a number of articles in New Left Review. Callinicos has also been a scathing critic of postmodernism.
He was Professor of Politics at the University of York before being appointed Professor of European Studies at King's College London in September 2005. A prolific writer for both the revolutionary and the academic presses, he is a member of the editorial board of International Socialism and is a British correspondent for Actuel Marx.
Works
Books
- 1976: Althusser's Marxism (editor). London: Pluto Press. ISBN 0-90438-302-4
- 1977: Southern Africa after Soweto (with John Rogers) (London: Pluto Press), ISBN 0-90438-342-3
- 1981: Southern Africa after Zimbabwe (London: Pluto) ISBN 0-86104-336-7
- 1982: Is there a future for Marxism? (London: Macmillan). ISBN 0-33328-477-1
- 1983: Marxism and Philosophy (Oxford Paperbacks) (Oxford: Clarendon). ISBN 0-19876-126-0
- 1983: The revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-90622-409-8
- 1985: South Africa: the road to revolution (Toronto: International Socialists). ISBN 0-90599-855-3
- 1985: The great strike : the miners’ strike of 1984-5 and its lessons (London: Socialist Worker) ISBN 0-90599-850-2
- 1986: The revolutionary road to Socialism (London: Socialist Workers Party). ISBN 0-90599-853-7
- 1987: The changing working class: essays on class structure today (with Chris Harman) (London: Bookmarks) ISBN 0-90622-440-3
- 1988: South Africa between reform and revolution (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-90622-446-2
- 1988: Making history: agency, structure, and change in social theory (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press). ISBN 0-80142-121-7
- 1989: Marxist Theory (editor) (Oxford: Oxford University Press). ISBN 0-19827-294-4
- 1990: Trotskyism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press). ISBN 0-81661-904-2
- 1991: The revenge of history: Marxism and the East European revolutions ISBN 0-27100-767-2
- 1991: Against Postmodernism: a Marxist critique (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-31204-224-8
- 1992: Between apartheid and capitalism: conversations with South African socialists (editor) (London: Bookmarks). ISBN 0-90622-468-3
- 1994: Marxism and the New Imperialism (London ; Chicago, Ill. : Bookmarks). ISBN 0-90622-481-0
- 1995: Theories and narratives (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-74561-201-6
- 1995: Race and class (London: Bookmark Publications). ISBN 0-90622-483-7
- 1995: Socialists in the trade unions (London: Bookmarks) ISBN 1-89887-601-0
- 1999: Social theory: historical introduction (New York: New York University Press). ISBN 0-81471-593-1
- 2000: Equality (Themes for the 21st Century) (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-74562-324-7
- 2002: Against the Third Way (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-74562-674-2
- 2003: An anti-Capitalist manifesto (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-74562-903-2
- 2003: New mandarins of American power: the Bush administration’s plans for the world (Cambridge: Polity Press). ISBN 0-74563-274-2
- 2006: The resources of critique (Cambridge: Polity). ISBN 0-74563-160-6
Articles
- "The Anti-Capitalist Movement And The Revolutionary Left"
- "The 'New Middle Class' and socialists" (1983)
- "The grand strategy of the American Empire"
- "Plumbing the depths: Marxism and the Holocaust"
- "Interview with Alex Callinicos: The Imperial Assault on the Middle East"
References
- ^ The Peerage.com
- ^ The Peerage.com
- ^ J. Bidet and E. Kouvelakis, eds., Dictionnaire Marx Contemporain Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2001
External links
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