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Original Article

Socialism and democracy: the political engagements of Ellen Meiksins Wood

Frances AbeleSchool of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Correspondence[email protected]
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George ComninelDepartment of Political Science, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;
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Peter MeiksinsSociology, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, USA
Pages 320-336 | Published online: 24 Nov 2016

Bibliography

  • Abele, Frances, George Comninel, and David McNally. "A Tribute to Neal Wood." Studies in Political Economy 73 (2004): 15–25.
  • Aston, Trevor Henry, and Charles H. E. Philpin, eds. The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe. 107–18. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  • Brenner, Robert. “Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe.” Past and Present 70 (1976).
  • Brenner, Robert. “The Origins of Capitalist Development: A Critique of Neo-Smithian Marxism." New Left Review 1, no. 104 (1977).
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism." New Left Review I, no. 127 (1981) 66–95.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The State and Popular Sovereignty in French Political Thought: A Genealogy of Rousseau’s ‘General Will’.” In History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé, edited by Frederick Krantz, 117–39. Montreal: Concordia University, 1985.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Retreat from Class: A New ‘True’ Socialism. London: Verso, 1986.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy. London: Verso, 1988.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States. London: Verso, 1991.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Chronology of the New Left and Its Successors, or: Who’s Old-Fashioned Now?” The Socialist Register 31 (1995): 22–49.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Empire of Capital. London: Verso, 2003.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London: Verso, 2008.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment. London: Verso, 2012.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. “Canada and the American Science of Politics.” In Close the 49th Parallel etc: The Americanization of Canada, edited by Ian Lumsden, 179–95. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Complete Works of Ellen Meiksins Wood

Books

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Mind and Politics: An Approach to the Meaning of Liberal and Socialist Individualism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1972.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Retreat from Class: A New ‘True’ Socialism. London: Verso, 1986.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy. London: Verso, 1988.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States. London: Verso, 1991.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Origin of Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View. London: Verso, 2002.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Empire of Capital. London: Verso, 2003.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. London: Verso, 2008.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. Liberty and Property: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Renaissance to Enlightenment. London: Verso, 2012.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader, edited by Larry Patriquin. Boston: Brill, 2012.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle in Social Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

Book Chapters

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. “Canada and the American Science of Politics.” In Close the 49th Parallel etc: The Americanization of Canada, edited by Ian Lumsden, 179–95. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1970.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The State and Popular Sovereignty in French Political Thought: A Genealogy of Rousseau’s ‘General Will’.” In History from Below: Studies in Popular Protest and Popular Ideology in Honour of George Rudé, edited by Frederick Krantz, 117–39. Montreal: Concordia University, 1985.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Falling Through the Cracks: E.P. Thompson and the Debate on Base and Superstructure.” In E.P. Thompson: Critical Perspectives, edited by Harvey J. Kaye and Keith McClelland, 125–52. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Democracy: An Idea of Ambiguous Ancestry.” In Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy, edited by J. Peter Euben, John R. Wallach, and Josiah Ober, 59–80. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “An Inheritance Reaffirmed: Marx.” In Class, edited by Patrick Joyce, 64–68. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Demos Versus ‘We, the People’: Freedom and Democracy Ancient and Modern.” In Dēmokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern, edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick, 121–37. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Locke Against Democracy: Consent, Representation, and Suffrage in the Two Treatises.” In Locke, vol. 2, edited by John Dunn and Ian Harris, 570–602. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “What Is the “Postmodern” Agenda?” In In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda, edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster, 1–16. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Communist Manifesto 150 Years Later.” In The Communist Manifesto/Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism/Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto 150 Years Later/Ellen Meiksins Wood, 87–112. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Introduction to the New Edition.” In The Retreat from Class: A New ‘True’ Socialism, by Ellen Meiksins Wood, xi–xv. London: Verso, 1998.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Labor, Class, and State in Global Capitalism.” In Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of ‘Global’ Capitalism, edited by Ellen Meiksins Wood, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates, 3–16. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Modernity, Postmodernity, or Capitalism?” In Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, 27–49. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism.” In Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment, edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Buttel, 23–41. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Kosovo and the New Imperialism.” In Masters of the Universe? NATO’s Balkan Crusade, edited by Tariq Ali, 190–200. London: Verso, 2000.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Global Capital, National States.” In Historical Materialism and Globalization, edited by Mark Rupert and Hazel Smith, 17–39. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Globalisation and the State: Where Is the Power of Capital?” In Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction, edited by Alfredo Saad-Filho, 127–41. London: Pluto, 2003.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Manifesto for Global Capital?” In Debating Empire, edited by Gopal Balakrishnan, 61–82. London: Verso, 2003.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Democracy as Ideology of Empire.” In The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire, edited by Colin Mooers, 9–23. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Historical Materialism in “Forms Which Precede Capitalist Production.” “In Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later, edited by Marcello Musto, 79–92. London: Routledge, 2008.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Peasants and the Market Imperative: The Origins of Capitalism.” In Peasants and Globalization: Political Economy, Rural Transformation, and the Agrarian Question, edited by A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Cristóbal Kay, 37–56. London: Routledge, 2009.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Britain vs. France: How Many Sonderwegs?” In Rechtsstaat Statt Revolution, Verrechtlichung statt Demokratie?, Vol. 1, Die historischen Voraussetzungen, edited by Detlef Georgia Schulze, Sabine Berghahn, and Frieder Otto Wolf, 83–97. Münster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2010.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Foreword.” In The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development, and Political Conflict, edited by Charles Post, 1620–1877. Leiden: Brill, 2011.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalism.” In The Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics, edited by Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho, 34–39. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Universal Capitalism.” In Marx for Today, edited by Marcello Musto, 162–69. New York: Routledge, 2012.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Democracy.” In The Marx Revival: Essays on the Critique of Contemporary Society, edited by Marcello Musto, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 (Forthcoming).

Books (as Editor)

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and John Bellamy Foster. In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1997.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, Robert W. McChesney, and John Bellamy Foster. Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communications Revolution. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, Peter Meiksins, and Michael Yates. Rising from the Ashes? Labor in the Age of ‘Global’ Capitalism. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998.

Journal Articles

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “C.B. Macpherson, Liberalism, and the Task of Socialist Political Theory.” The Socialist Register 15 (1978): 215–40.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Liberal Democracy and Capitalist Hegemony: A Reply to Leo Panitch on the Task of Socialist Political Theory.” The Socialist Register 18 (1981): 169–89.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Marxism and Ancient Greece.” History Workshop Journal 11 (1981): 3–22.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism.” New Left Review I 127 (1981): 66–95.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Politics of Theory and the Concept of Class: E.P. Thompson and His Critics.” Studies in Political Economy 9 (1982): 45–75.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Agricultural Slavery in Classical Athens.” American Journal of Ancient History 8 (1983): 1–47.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Marxism without Class Struggle?” The Socialist Register 20 (1983): 239–71.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The State and Popular Sovereignty in French Political Thought: A Genealogy of Rousseau’s ‘General Will’.” History of Political Thought 4 (1983): 281–315.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Marxism and the Course of History.” New Left Review I 147 (1984): 95–107.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Peter Meiksins. “Beyond Class? A Reply to Chantal Mouffe.” Studies in Political Economy 17 (1985): 141–65.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and Neal Wood. “Socrates and Democracy: A Reply to Gregory Vlastos.” Political Theory 14 (1986): 55–82.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Reply to ‘Looking for Alternatives to Reformism’.” International Socialism 35 (1987): 129–38.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Why Class Struggle Is Central.” Against the Current 10 (1987): 7–9.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalism and Human Emancipation.” New Left Review I 167 (1988): 3–20.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Rational Choice Marxism: Is the Game Worth the Candle?” New Left Review I 177 (1989): 41–88.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Explaining Everything or Nothing?” New Left Review I 184 (1990): 116–28.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Uses and Abuses of ‘Civil Society’.” The Socialist Register 26 (1990): 60–84.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Custom against Capitalism.” New Left Review I 195 (1992): 21–28.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Locke Against Democracy: Consent, Representation, and Suffrage in the Two Treatises.” History of Political Thought 13 (1992): 657–89.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “E.P. Thompson: Historian and Socialist.” Monthly Review 45, no. 8 (1994): 8–14.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Edward Palmer Thompson: In Memoriam.” Studies in Political Economy 43 (1994): 26–31.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “From Opportunity to Imperative: The History of the Market.” Monthly Review 46, no. 3 (1994): 14–40.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “History of the Market: From Opportunity to Imperative.” Mainstream 32, no. 41 (1994): 11–21.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Radicalism, Capitalism, and Historical Contexts: Not Only a Reply to Richard Ashcraft on John Locke.” History of Political Thought 15 (1994): 323–72.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Ralph Miliband, 1924–1994: The Common Sense of Socialism.” Radical Philosophy 68 (1994): 62–3.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Chronology of the New Left and Its Successors, or: Who’s Old-Fashioned Now?” The Socialist Register 31 (1995): 22–49.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “What Is the “Postmodern” Agenda? An Introduction.” Monthly Review 47, no. 3 (1995): 1–12.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalism, Merchants, and Bourgeois Revolution: Reflections on the Brenner Debate and Its Sequel.” International Review of Social History 41 (1996): 209–32.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Intellectuals and Universalism.” Imprints 1, no. 1 (1996): 65–71.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins, and John Bellamy Foster. “Marxism and Postmodernism: A Reply to Roger Burbach.” Monthly Review 47, no. 10 (1996): 41–6.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Modernity, Postmodernity, or Capitalism?” Monthly Review 48, no. 3 (1996): 21–39.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Back to Marx.” Monthly Review 49, no. 2 (1997): 1–9.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Labor, the State, and Class Struggle.” Monthly Review 49, no. 3 (1997): 1–17.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Modernity, Postmodernity, or Capitalism?” Review of International Political Economy 4 (1997): 539–60.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Non-History of Capitalism.” Historical Materialism 1 (1997): 5–21.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Note on Du Boff and Herman.” Monthly Review 49, no. 6 (1997): 39–43.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Reply to A. Sivanandan.” Monthly Review 48, no. 9 (1997): 21–32.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism.” Monthly Review 50, no. 3 (1998): 14–31.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalist Change and Generational Shifts.” Monthly Review 50, no. 5 (1998): 1–10.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Class Compacts, the Welfare State, and Epochal Shifts: A Reply to Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward.” Monthly Review 49, no. 8 (1998): 25–46.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Communist Manifesto after 150 Years.” Monthly Review 50, no. 1 (1998): 14–35.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Horizontal Relations: A Note on Brenner’s Heresy.” Historical Materialism 4 (1999): 171–9.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Kosovo and the New Imperialism.” Monthly Review 51, no. 2 (1999): 1–8.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Politics of Capitalism.” Monthly Review 51, no. 4 (1999): 12–26.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Unhappy Families: Global Capitalism in a World of Nation-States.” Monthly Review 51, no. 3 (1999): 1–12.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalism or Enlightenment?” History of Political Thought 21 (2000): 405–26.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Contradictions: Only in Capitalism?” The Socialist Register 38 (2001): 275–93.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Eurocentric Anti-Eurocentrism.” Against the Current 92 (2001): 29–35.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Class, Race, and Capitalism.” Political Power and Social Theory 15 (2002): 275–84.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Explaining 11 September.” Studies in Political Economy 67 (2002): 25–31.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Infinite War.” Historical Materialism 10, no. 1 (2002): 7–27.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Landlords and Peasants, Masters and Slaves: Class Relations in Greek and Roman Antiquity.” Historical Materialism 10, no. 3 (2002): 17–69.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “The Question of Market Dependence.” Journal of Agrarian Change 2 (2002): 50–87.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Christopher Hill and the Recovery of History.” Against the Current 104 (2003): 43–45.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Capitalist Empire and the Nation State.” Against the Current 106 (2003): 21–26.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Logics of Power: A Conversation with David Harvey.” Historical Materialism 14, no. 4 (2006): 9–34.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “A Reply to Critics.” Historical Materialism 15, no. 3 (2007): 143–70.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Getting What’s Coming to Us: Capitalism and Social Rights.” Against the Current 140 (2009): 28–32.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Redéfinir la démocratie.” Contretemps 4 (2009): 59–62.

Book Reviews

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Review of The American Left: Radical Political Thought in the Twentieth Century, Loren Baritz.” The Political Quarterly 43, no. 3 (1972): 366.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Review of Medieval Slavery and Liberation, by Pierre Dockes.” Social History 9 (1984): 101–3.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Review of Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism, by Paul Veyne.” History of the Human Sciences 4 (1991): 469–71.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “’Why It Matters.’ Review of Hobbes and Republican Liberty, by Quentin Skinner.” London Review of Books 30, no. 18 (2008): 3–6.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Happy Campers.” Review of Why Not Socialism?, by G.A. Cohen.” London Review of Books 32, no. 2 (2010): 26–7.

Magazine Articles

Interviews

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Democracy and Capitalism: Friends or Foes?” Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood. New Socialist 1, no. 1 (1996): 14–16.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “An Interview with Ellen Meiksins Wood.” Interview by Christopher Phelps. Monthly Review 51, no. 1 (1999): 74–92.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Ellen Meiksins Wood: Empire in the Age of Capital.” In Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, edited by Sasha Lilley, 27–42. Oakland: PM Press, 2011.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Le marxisme politique et ses débats.” Interview by Frédérick- Guillaume Dufour and Jonathan Martineau. Actuel Marx 50 (2011): 98–118.
  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Social Property Relations in the 21st Century: An Interview with Ellen Wood.” Alternate Routes 24 (2013): 159–170.

Lectures/Presentations

Dissertations

  • Wood, Ellen Meiksins. “Epistemological Foundations of Individualism.” PhD diss., University of California, 1970.

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