York University
George C. Comninel

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POLS 3020
Utopia, Power and
Sovereignty


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POLS 3025
A Century of Revolution


Readings
POLS 4090
Classical Marxist Thought

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Recommended Bibliography
POLS 6031
Class and State in Pre-capitalist Societies

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Recommended Bibliography
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George C. Comninel
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science

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BA (Cornell); MA (York); PhD (York)

Research Interests:

Marxist Theory
Social History of Political Theory
Historical State Formation and Social-Economic Development
Politics, Ideology, and Class in the French Revolution
Revolutions and Revolutionary Theories

Selected Publications:

Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018).

Rethinking the French Revolution:  Marxism and the Revisionist Challenge
, (London:  Verso Books, 1987).

“Marx and the Politics of the First International.” Socialism and Democracy, 28:2, July 2014, pp. 59-82.

“Critical Thinking and Class Analysis.” Socialism and Democracy, 27:1, March 2013, pp. 19-56

“Emancipation in Marx’s Early Work.” In Marcello Musto, (ed.),
Marx for Today, London-New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 73-91.

Feudalism.” In Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad Filho, (eds.) Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 131-137.

Marxism and History.” In Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad Filho, (eds.) Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 212-219.

Die Anatomie des Affen verstehen: Historischer Materialismus und die Spezifik des Kapitalismus [Historical Materialism and the Specificity of Capitalism: Recognizing the Anatomy of the Ape].” Z. Zeitschrift Marxistische Erneuerung, n. 84, December 2010, pp. 104-115.

“Historical Materialist Sociology and Revolutions.” In Gerard Delanty and Engin Isin, (eds.),  Handbook of Historical Sociology, London: Sage, 2003.

“Revolution in History: The Communist Manifesto in Context.”  In Douglas Moggach and Paul Leduc Browne (eds.), The Revolutions of 1848: A Contested Legacy, Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2000.

“Marx’s Context.” History of Political Thought, vol. XXI, n. 3, Autumn 2000.

“English Feudalism and the Origins of Capitalism.” Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 27, n. 4, July 2000.

Current Projects:

The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe (expected 2016).

Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx (expected 2016).

The Routledge Guidebook to Marx’s Capital (expected 2017)