Book discussion: Domenico Losurdo – Western Marxism (5 July)

📆  Saturday 5 July 2025, 6pm Britain, 1pm US Eastern, 10am US Pacific

Join us at the historic Marx Memorial Library (or online) for a discussion of Domenico Losurdo’s crucial book, “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, in which the legendary Italian philosopher charts the long and complex history of Marxism’s bifurcation into ‘Western’ and ‘Eastern’ – a division based primarily on the national question and the relative prioritisation of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist struggles.

Only translated into English in 2024, Western Marxism presents a powerful critique of our movement’s historic eurocentrism, and provides a timely challenge to those of us in the West seeking to move forward the struggle for socialism and against imperialism.

Speakers

• Gabriel Rockhill (Editor of the English edition)
• Jennifer Ponce de León (Co-author of the introduction to the English edition)
• Alex Gordon (Chair, Marx Memorial Library)
• Carlos Martinez (Co-editor, Friends of Socialist China)
• Chair: Francisco Domínguez (National secretary, Venezuela Solidarity Campaign)

Organisers

• Friends of Socialist China
• Morning Star
• International Manifesto Group
• Critical Theory Workshop
• Iskra Books