Max Tomba is a professor in the Department of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Marx’s Temporalities, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity, and, most recently, Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism.

October 22, 2026

• Max Tomba

Peter Thomas Was a Marxist Intellectual With a Mission

Peter Thomas, the Marxist theorist best known for his work on Antonio Gramsci, has died. He restored the political edge to Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and saw his own scholarship as part of the Left’s fight for power.