Marcel van der Linden is a senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He is the author of Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (2007) and Workers of the World: Essays toward a Global Labor History (2008).

04.05.2023

• Marcel van der Linden

Ernest Mandel and the Economics of Late Capitalism

Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.

11.05.2022

• Marcel van der Linden

Rumors of the Death of the Working Class Are Highly Exaggerated

There is no “end of the working class.”