Peter Hudis
Biographic Data
| ID | 319603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hudis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudis |
| SIGNATURE | HUDIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oakton Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0470-6011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking the meaning of socialism in the Androcene
Raya Dunayevskaya’s Reorganizing of Revolutionary Thought
This interview with Peter Hudis, conducted by Jane Anna Gordon in February 2025, offers a concise introduction to the life and work of Raya Dunayevskaya, an account of how Hudis’s work as her secretary led him to encounter her remarkable memory, excellent judgment of character, and focus on how decentralized forms of mass organization could avoid both generating theory apart from active engagement with “masses in motion” and substituting grassroo…
The political economy of Frantz Fanon’s concept of sociogeny
A critical aspect of Frantz Fanon’s thought is its rejection of transhistorical or ontological accounts of race and racism that fail to treat them as socially constructed products of capitalist modernity. Yet while his work addresses the economic imperatives that produce and sustain colonial domination, much of the secondary literature on Fanon assumes he had little or nothing to say about issues related to the Marxian critique of political econo…
The Theoretical Practice and Practical Theory of Drucilla Cornell
One of the many vantage points from which to appreciate the multidimensional contributions of Drucilla Cornell is her life-long attachment to the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, who inspired her from the time she was a young labor activist to her very last work, Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolution (2022)
Beyond the Binary of Race and Class: A Marxist Humanist Perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point for re-examining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth-century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race
Pathways to social development: Rosa Luxemburg’s studies on the anthropology and sociology of imperialism
While Rosa Luxemburg is widely known for her critique of reformism and political authoritarianism, less attention has been paid to her anthropological and ethnographic studies of non-Western and precapitalist societies. This chapter examines Luxemburg’s work on this in her Introduction to Political Economy and writings composed between 1907 and 1914 at the school of the German Social-Democratic Party in Berlin. In doing so, it compares and contra…
Le concept de révolution chez Rosa Luxemburg
Cet article, version abrégée de l’introduction au nouveau volume des œuvres complètes de Rosa Luxemburg en langue anglaise (regroupant ses écrits sur la révolution des années 1906 à 1909), traite de la manière dont son concept de démocratie socialiste s’applique à deux problèmes liés : 1) le rôle des organisations révolutionnaires dans la formation d’une conscience de classe ; et 2) la forme exacte de la transition au socialisme dans des pays où …
New perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg's concept of the transition to socialism
The ongoing project to issue the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her writings available in English translation, provides a critical lens to re-evaluate aspects of Luxemburg's theoretical contribution that has often been passed over in much of the secondary literature on her. Of foremost importance in this regard is the distinctive contribution that she made to the understanding of how to achieve a transition to socialism …
Dialectic
The modern dialectic originates in Hegel, who develops it in a social and historical framework, using core concepts like negation of the negation (absolute negativity), the critique of abstract universals, and identity, difference, and contradiction. The young Marx criticizes Hegel's stress on consciousness as opposed to the fullness of human praxis, but he employs core dialectical concepts drawn from Hegel, as in the commodity fetishism section …
Marx’s Concept of Socialism
One of the most important theoretical challenges facing us is developing a viable alternative to capitalism. Achieving this requires rethinking basic premises of social theory and practice, given the difficulties of freeing humanity from such problems as alienation, class domination, and the capitalist law of value. Taking off from Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, this article explores how Marx’s critique of capital, value product…
Racism and the Logic of Capital: A Fanonian Reconsideration
The last several decades have produced a slew of important studies by Marxists of the logic of capital, as well as numerous explorations by postcolonial theorists of the narratives that structure racial and ethnic discrimination. Far too often, however, these two currents have assumed different or even opposed trajectories, making it all the harder to transcend one-sided class-reductionist analyses and equally one-sided affirmations of identity t…
Frantz Fanon's Contribution to Hegelian Marxism
Although Frantz Fanon's work has been widely read and discussed in recent years, his contributions are often abstracted from its debt to Marxist theory and Hegelian philosophy. This paper seeks to correct this by re-examining his approach to issues of recognition, identity, and self-consciousness in Black Skin, White Masks in light of contemporary issues of racism and ethnic identity. Fanon departs from Hegel in many respects, especially concerni…
The Dialectic of the Spatial Determination of Capital: Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital Reconsidered
Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital sought to re-think the work of Marx for the era of imperialism by focusing on capitalism's spatial determination—its inherent drive to consume non-capitalist strata in order to realize surplus value. Although Luxemburg's approach has given rise to intense debates over the past century, the availability of numerous texts of Marx that were unknown in her lifetime—from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscr…
Tak, jest alternatywa i można ją znaleźć u Marksa
Choć istnieje kilka istotniejszych pytań niż to, czy możliwa jest realnaalternatywa dla kapitalizmu, radykalna teoria społeczna unikała podjęcia tej kwestiiwprost – mimo tego, że teoretyczne i praktyczne koszty stwierdzenia „nie ma alternatywydla kapitalizmu” są powszechnie znane. Esej ten dowodzi, że przeszkodaw zakreśleniu realnej alternatywy musi mieć początek w rewizji marksowskiej krytykikapitalizmu, jak również jego oceny ówczesnych komunis…
Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of a Post-capitalist Society
This paper explores Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the effort to theorize a viable alternative to capitalism. It argues that few figures in the radical tradition had as multidimentional and all-encompassing a vision of a new society, as seen in her famous insistence that there can be no socialism without democracy and no democracy without socialism. At the same time, however, Luxemburg's understanding of a post-capitalist society was constraine…
Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation. Instead of focusing on the prese…
Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations: Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
The dramatic changes that have unfolded in the global economy in recent years make this a worthwhile moment to explore the similarities and differences between Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of what is now termed the "globalization of capital." Both Marx and Luxemburg were intensely interested in the impact of the expansive logic of capital accumulation upon non-capitalist or developing societies, as seen in Marx's late writings on …
Dialectic
While its roots go back to the Socratic dialogues, dialectics as social theory begins with G. W. F. Hegel, and extends through Karl Marx to today. With Hegel, the dialectic takes the form of a double negation. Ideas or social forms face negativity from within. If the process deepens, the old idea or form is overthrown. However, such a first or bare negation remains a “formless abstraction” unless it develops some determinateness or specificity (H…
Rosa Luxemburg in China: A Report on the 'Rosa Luxemburg' Conference 21–2 November 2004 – South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Developing a philosophically grounded alternative to capitalism
The Death of the Death of the Subject
Marx among the Muslims
The relation between Islam and social transformation has become a major subject of discussion and debate in recent years, much of it weighted down by stereotyped depictions of Islam in the mainstre
Workers as Reason: The Development of a New Relation of Worker and Intellectual in American Marxist Humanism
The Dialectical Structure of Marx's Concept of 'Revolution in Permanence
This article argues that while the limitations of Hegel's political reconciliation with existing reality has long been evident, the depth of Marx's challenge to capital cannot be fully comprehended, let alone restated for today, without a re-encounter with Marx's rootedness in and transcendence of Hegel's concept of absolute negativity. The need to go beyond critiques of private property and the market by projecting ground for the negation of cap…
Dialectics, ‘the Party9 and the Problem of the New Society
This is an especially auspicious moment to reconsider the problem of organisation in Marxist theory. This is not needed for the sake of rehashing old debates about which strategy or tactic can best ‘make’ the revolution. In a century that has seen many revolutions come to power but none lead to the creation of a new society we have different reasons for exploring the problem of organisation. The question is, what kind of organisation, and what re…
Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation. Instead of focusing on the prese…
Racism and the Logic of Capital: A Fanonian Reconsideration
The last several decades have produced a slew of important studies by Marxists of the logic of capital, as well as numerous explorations by postcolonial theorists of the narratives that structure racial and ethnic discrimination. Far too often, however, these two currents have assumed different or even opposed trajectories, making it all the harder to transcend one-sided class-reductionist analyses and equally one-sided affirmations of identity t…
Conceptualizing an emancipatory alternative: István Mészáros's beyond capital
(1997). Conceptualizing an emancipatory alternative: Istvan Meszaros's beyond capital. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 37-53
Marx among the Muslims
The relation between Islam and social transformation has become a major subject of discussion and debate in recent years, much of it weighted down by stereotyped depictions of Islam in the mainstre
Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations: Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
The dramatic changes that have unfolded in the global economy in recent years make this a worthwhile moment to explore the similarities and differences between Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of what is now termed the "globalization of capital." Both Marx and Luxemburg were intensely interested in the impact of the expansive logic of capital accumulation upon non-capitalist or developing societies, as seen in Marx's late writings on …
The Death of the Death of the Subject
The Dialectical Structure of Marx's Concept of 'Revolution in Permanence
This article argues that while the limitations of Hegel's political reconciliation with existing reality has long been evident, the depth of Marx's challenge to capital cannot be fully comprehended, let alone restated for today, without a re-encounter with Marx's rootedness in and transcendence of Hegel's concept of absolute negativity. The need to go beyond critiques of private property and the market by projecting ground for the negation of cap…
Beyond the Binary of Race and Class: A Marxist Humanist Perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point for re-examining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth-century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race
Dialectic
While its roots go back to the Socratic dialogues, dialectics as social theory begins with G. W. F. Hegel, and extends through Karl Marx to today. With Hegel, the dialectic takes the form of a double negation. Ideas or social forms face negativity from within. If the process deepens, the old idea or form is overthrown. However, such a first or bare negation remains a “formless abstraction” unless it develops some determinateness or specificity (H…
Dialectics, ‘the Party9 and the Problem of the New Society
This is an especially auspicious moment to reconsider the problem of organisation in Marxist theory. This is not needed for the sake of rehashing old debates about which strategy or tactic can best ‘make’ the revolution. In a century that has seen many revolutions come to power but none lead to the creation of a new society we have different reasons for exploring the problem of organisation. The question is, what kind of organisation, and what re…
The Third World Road to Socialism: New Perspectives on Marx's Writings from His Last Decade
The Third World Road to Socialism: New Perspectives on Marx's Writings from His Last Decade
Labor, High-Tech Capitalism, and the Crisis of the Subject: A Critique of Recent Developments in Critical Theory
Conceptualizing an emancipatory alternative: István Mészáros's beyond capital
(1997). Conceptualizing an emancipatory alternative: Istvan Meszaros's beyond capital. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 37-53
Dialectics, ‘the Party9 and the Problem of the New Society
This is an especially auspicious moment to reconsider the problem of organisation in Marxist theory. This is not needed for the sake of rehashing old debates about which strategy or tactic can best ‘make’ the revolution. In a century that has seen many revolutions come to power but none lead to the creation of a new society we have different reasons for exploring the problem of organisation. The question is, what kind of organisation, and what re…
The Dialectical Structure of Marx's Concept of 'Revolution in Permanence
This article argues that while the limitations of Hegel's political reconciliation with existing reality has long been evident, the depth of Marx's challenge to capital cannot be fully comprehended, let alone restated for today, without a re-encounter with Marx's rootedness in and transcendence of Hegel's concept of absolute negativity. The need to go beyond critiques of private property and the market by projecting ground for the negation of cap…
Workers as Reason: The Development of a New Relation of Worker and Intellectual in American Marxist Humanism
The Death of the Death of the Subject
Marx among the Muslims
The relation between Islam and social transformation has become a major subject of discussion and debate in recent years, much of it weighted down by stereotyped depictions of Islam in the mainstre
Rosa Luxemburg in China: A Report on the 'Rosa Luxemburg' Conference 21–2 November 2004 – South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China
Developing a philosophically grounded alternative to capitalism
Dialectic
While its roots go back to the Socratic dialogues, dialectics as social theory begins with G. W. F. Hegel, and extends through Karl Marx to today. With Hegel, the dialectic takes the form of a double negation. Ideas or social forms face negativity from within. If the process deepens, the old idea or form is overthrown. However, such a first or bare negation remains a “formless abstraction” unless it develops some determinateness or specificity (H…
Accumulation, Imperialism, and Pre-Capitalist Formations: Luxemburg and Marx on the non-Western World
The dramatic changes that have unfolded in the global economy in recent years make this a worthwhile moment to explore the similarities and differences between Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg's understanding of what is now termed the "globalization of capital." Both Marx and Luxemburg were intensely interested in the impact of the expansive logic of capital accumulation upon non-capitalist or developing societies, as seen in Marx's late writings on …
Rosa Luxemburg's Concept of a Post-capitalist Society
This paper explores Rosa Luxemburg's contribution to the effort to theorize a viable alternative to capitalism. It argues that few figures in the radical tradition had as multidimentional and all-encompassing a vision of a new society, as seen in her famous insistence that there can be no socialism without democracy and no democracy without socialism. At the same time, however, Luxemburg's understanding of a post-capitalist society was constraine…
Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and does not contain a detailed or coherent conception of its alternative, this book shows, through an analysis of his published and unpublished writings, that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society that informed his critique of value production, alienated labor and capitalist accumulation. Instead of focusing on the prese…
Tak, jest alternatywa i można ją znaleźć u Marksa
Choć istnieje kilka istotniejszych pytań niż to, czy możliwa jest realnaalternatywa dla kapitalizmu, radykalna teoria społeczna unikała podjęcia tej kwestiiwprost – mimo tego, że teoretyczne i praktyczne koszty stwierdzenia „nie ma alternatywydla kapitalizmu” są powszechnie znane. Esej ten dowodzi, że przeszkodaw zakreśleniu realnej alternatywy musi mieć początek w rewizji marksowskiej krytykikapitalizmu, jak również jego oceny ówczesnych komunis…
The Dialectic of the Spatial Determination of Capital: Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital Reconsidered
Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital sought to re-think the work of Marx for the era of imperialism by focusing on capitalism's spatial determination—its inherent drive to consume non-capitalist strata in order to realize surplus value. Although Luxemburg's approach has given rise to intense debates over the past century, the availability of numerous texts of Marx that were unknown in her lifetime—from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscr…
Frantz Fanon's Contribution to Hegelian Marxism
Although Frantz Fanon's work has been widely read and discussed in recent years, his contributions are often abstracted from its debt to Marxist theory and Hegelian philosophy. This paper seeks to correct this by re-examining his approach to issues of recognition, identity, and self-consciousness in Black Skin, White Masks in light of contemporary issues of racism and ethnic identity. Fanon departs from Hegel in many respects, especially concerni…
Marx’s Concept of Socialism
One of the most important theoretical challenges facing us is developing a viable alternative to capitalism. Achieving this requires rethinking basic premises of social theory and practice, given the difficulties of freeing humanity from such problems as alienation, class domination, and the capitalist law of value. Taking off from Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, this article explores how Marx’s critique of capital, value product…
Racism and the Logic of Capital: A Fanonian Reconsideration
The last several decades have produced a slew of important studies by Marxists of the logic of capital, as well as numerous explorations by postcolonial theorists of the narratives that structure racial and ethnic discrimination. Far too often, however, these two currents have assumed different or even opposed trajectories, making it all the harder to transcend one-sided class-reductionist analyses and equally one-sided affirmations of identity t…
Dialectic
The modern dialectic originates in Hegel, who develops it in a social and historical framework, using core concepts like negation of the negation (absolute negativity), the critique of abstract universals, and identity, difference, and contradiction. The young Marx criticizes Hegel's stress on consciousness as opposed to the fullness of human praxis, but he employs core dialectical concepts drawn from Hegel, as in the commodity fetishism section …
New perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg's concept of the transition to socialism
The ongoing project to issue the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her writings available in English translation, provides a critical lens to re-evaluate aspects of Luxemburg's theoretical contribution that has often been passed over in much of the secondary literature on her. Of foremost importance in this regard is the distinctive contribution that she made to the understanding of how to achieve a transition to socialism …
Le concept de révolution chez Rosa Luxemburg
Cet article, version abrégée de l’introduction au nouveau volume des œuvres complètes de Rosa Luxemburg en langue anglaise (regroupant ses écrits sur la révolution des années 1906 à 1909), traite de la manière dont son concept de démocratie socialiste s’applique à deux problèmes liés : 1) le rôle des organisations révolutionnaires dans la formation d’une conscience de classe ; et 2) la forme exacte de la transition au socialisme dans des pays où …
The Theoretical Practice and Practical Theory of Drucilla Cornell
One of the many vantage points from which to appreciate the multidimensional contributions of Drucilla Cornell is her life-long attachment to the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, who inspired her from the time she was a young labor activist to her very last work, Today’s Struggles, Tomorrow’s Revolution (2022)
Beyond the Binary of Race and Class: A Marxist Humanist Perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point for re-examining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth-century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race
Pathways to social development: Rosa Luxemburg’s studies on the anthropology and sociology of imperialism
While Rosa Luxemburg is widely known for her critique of reformism and political authoritarianism, less attention has been paid to her anthropological and ethnographic studies of non-Western and precapitalist societies. This chapter examines Luxemburg’s work on this in her Introduction to Political Economy and writings composed between 1907 and 1914 at the school of the German Social-Democratic Party in Berlin. In doing so, it compares and contra…
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