Mat Callahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4460924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mat Callahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mat |
| FAMILY NAME | Callahan |
| SIGNATURE | CALLAHAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bern, Switzerland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Socialism and Democracy's Bern Symposium
On March 13th and 14th, 2026, Socialism and Democracy hosted a symposium in Bern, Switzerland. Scholars from several countries came together to present papers on themes that had been collectively d
Mood Machine
Global Battlefields
The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
Until We Fall
Intellectual Property and Socialism
Dangerous Juncture
Philosophy as Class Struggle in Theory
The Impact of the German Democratic Republic on Contemporary Germany
San Francisco Reds”
Cooperatives, the Solidarity Economy and Social Transformation. An Interview with Kali Akuno, Part I
Anti-imperialism, Independence and the Workers’ Republic
Cooperatives, the Solidarity, Economy and Social Transformation. An Interview with Kali Akuno, Part II
The Korean War, Bacteriological Weapons, and the National Security State. An interview with Tom Powell
Covid
Red Africa
Sophistry, Politics and Philosophy
How to characterise the landscape of contemporary intellectual life? What does academic philosophy bring to bear on it? How does this relate to the political terrain
What is the Common Good
Revolution
Of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing and the Damage Done
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot
The revival of folk music—music derived from rural southern sources, unamplified, and, to a large extent, comprised of old songs of anonymous origin—was more than just another fad. Folk music encapsulated longings for an idyllic past, for a time before crass commercialism turned music into a commodity, and for relationships between musicians and audiences that were egalitarian and holistic
The Party, the Comrade and Communist Renewal in the 21st Century – An Interview with Jodi Dean
Amidst deepening crisis and growing unrest, questions of organization and strategy are more urgent than ever. With a young generation casting off decades of anti-communist brainwashing and embracin
Proposal for Social Transformation
The world is sick, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure. The pandemic presents an opportunity. It does so by making humanity conscious of itself in its threefold character: biological
Socialist Practice
Margaret Thatcher once claimed, “there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.” Though it sounds preposterous, Thatcher's apparently offhand remark wa
A Threat of the First Magnitude
A Threat of the First Magnitude contributes to two separate, though overlapping, fields of historical inquiry. First is the growing body of work documenting the covert activities of the FBI. This f
Immigration in Switzerland
The Nature of the Beast
Distinguishing Friend from Foe in the Intellectual Property Debate
Agit Disco
Why Intellectual Property? Why Now
Considering the grave dangers facing humanity today, it might appear that Intellectual Property (IP), though loudly controversial, is at best a tempest in a teapot, at worst a diversionary tactic d
Running Through the Jungle
Digital Rebellion
Absolute Recoil
Slavoj Žižek's output is prodigious. Since 2012, he has published seven books, of which two are monumental. These two aim at nothing less than “a new foundation of dialectical materialism” – the su
World Cinema and Cultural Memory
It would appear that the distinction between memory and history is simple and straightforward. Memory is what we remember, history is what actually happened. Furthermore, memory and history are the
The Slave’s Cause
A Threat of the First Magnitude
A Threat of the First Magnitude contributes to two separate, though overlapping, fields of historical inquiry. First is the growing body of work documenting the covert activities of the FBI. This f
The New Communist Movement Revisited
Mat Callahan: First of all, I wanted to congratulate you on the republication of the book.1 It was originally published in 2002, is that correct?Max Elbaum: That's right.Callahan: Verso decided to
Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
In his latest book, Egyptian economist and revolutionary theorist Samir Amin confronts an enigma. Twenty-six years after it occurred, the collapse of the Soviet Union continues to produce destabil
The Party, the Comrade and Communist Renewal in the 21st Century – An Interview with Jodi Dean
Amidst deepening crisis and growing unrest, questions of organization and strategy are more urgent than ever. With a young generation casting off decades of anti-communist brainwashing and embracin
Proposal for Social Transformation
The world is sick, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure. The pandemic presents an opportunity. It does so by making humanity conscious of itself in its threefold character: biological
Socialist Practice
Margaret Thatcher once claimed, “there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.” Though it sounds preposterous, Thatcher's apparently offhand remark wa
Sophistry, Politics and Philosophy
How to characterise the landscape of contemporary intellectual life? What does academic philosophy bring to bear on it? How does this relate to the political terrain
What is the Common Good
Revolution
Of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing and the Damage Done
Was Folk Music a Commie Plot
The revival of folk music—music derived from rural southern sources, unamplified, and, to a large extent, comprised of old songs of anonymous origin—was more than just another fad. Folk music encapsulated longings for an idyllic past, for a time before crass commercialism turned music into a commodity, and for relationships between musicians and audiences that were egalitarian and holistic
The Impact of the German Democratic Republic on Contemporary Germany
San Francisco Reds”
Cooperatives, the Solidarity Economy and Social Transformation. An Interview with Kali Akuno, Part I
Anti-imperialism, Independence and the Workers’ Republic
Political science (28 works) · Law (17 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · History (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · History (7 works)