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01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025
Overview
Answering the question: Should all Marxists become Toozians? How much of Adam Tooze's criticisms that motivated him to step away from his Trotskyist past and convert to as self-described 'left-liberalism' is valid?
Marxism vs. Adam Tooze
1 participant (6 books)
STARTS: 01 Jan 2025ENDS: 31 Dec 2025
Overview
Answering the question: Should all Marxists become Toozians? How much of Adam Tooze's criticisms that motivated him to step away from his Trotskyist past and convert to as self-described 'left-liberalism' is valid?
Challenge Books
1
Considerations on Western Marxism
Perry Anderson
A foundational work by Anderson, who criticises Western Marxism and mourns a separation from theory and praxis, accompanied by estrangement from working class politics.
3
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
Adam Tooze
A history of modern financial crises and at the epicentre of the original Anderson - Tooze dispute.
4
Situationism à L'envers?
Perry Anderson
Anderson's critical commentary on Tooze's "Crashed".
5
On thinking in medias res: An Interview with Ding Xiongfei from the Shanghai Review of Books
Ding Xiongfei, Adam Tooze
A longer interview that includes much noticed answers to Anderson's critique.
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-341-on-thinking-in-medias
https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-341-on-thinking-in-medias
6
(bonus)
A Zone of Engagement
Perry Anderson
Tooze cites reading this work as one of his major influences.
8
(bonus)
Hegemony Notes
Adam Tooze
Tooze wrote a series of longer essays on his Substack 'Chartbook', where he reflects on Hegemony today.
Nr. 1 https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-296-project-power-hegemony?utm_source=publication-search
Nr. 1 https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-296-project-power-hegemony?utm_source=publication-search
9
(bonus)
Statistics and the German State, 1900 1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge
J. Adam Tooze
This, together with Crashed and Wages of Destruction, forms the Toozian trifecta, according to oth Tooze and Anderson.
10
The Wages of Destruction - The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Adam Tooze
Foundational work by Tooze on the Nazi economy. Both Tooze and Anderson see it as complementary to "Crashed".