Ellen Meiksins Wood

Ellen Meiksins Wood (Berlin 2012)

Ellen Meiksins Wood (born April 12, 1942 in New York , † January 14, 2016 in Ottawa ) was an American Marxist historian and editor of the Monthly Review .

Life

Wood was born in New York in 1942 as the daughter of Latvian refugees and was named Ellen Meiksins. Since they were Jews and also members of the Bund , their parents were forced to leave Latvia, which was occupied by Germany. In Berkeley , Wood received a Bachelor's degree in Slavic Languages from the University of California in 1962 . She then studied political science at the University of California in Los Angeles , where she received her doctorate in 1970. From 1967–1996 she taught this subject at York University in Toronto . After she retired, she was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada . From 1984 to 1994 Wood served on the editorial board of New Left Review , from 1997 to 2000, along with Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy , co-editor of the Monthly Review . She was a representative of so-called political Marxism .

Most recently, Meiksins Wood wrote for the Socialist Register and Against the Current magazine .

Her first marriage was since 1968 to Neil Wood, who died in 2003. Together they published several essays in the 1970s.

In 2014 she married Ed Broadbent , the former chairman of the New Democratic Party , with whom she lived in Ottawa and London for six years until her death from complications from cancer.

Works

• Mind and politics , 1972, Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520020294 .
• Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood : Class ideology and ancient political theory , 1978, Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0631183701 .
• The Retreat from Class: A New 'True' Socialism , 1986, London: Verso. ISBN 0860911284 .
• Peasant-Citizen and Slave. The Foundations of Athenian Democracy , 1988, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 0860911950 .
• The Pristine Culture of Capitalism. A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States , 1991, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 0860915530 .
• Democracy against Capitalism. Renewing Historical Materialism , 1995, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052147096X .
• A Trumpet of Sedition. Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism 1509-1688 , 1997, London: Pluto Press. ISBN 074531175X .
• The Origin of Capitalism. A Longer View , 2002, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 1859843921 .
• Empire of capital , 2003, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 1859845029 .
• Citizens to Lords. A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages , 2008, London; New York: Verso. ISBN 9781844672431 .
• The Ellen Meiksins Wood Reader , ed. v. Larry Patriquin, 2013, Chicago: Haymarket Books. ISBN 9781608462797 .

As editor

• Ellen Meiksins Wood and John Bellamy Foster (Eds.): In defense of history , c1997, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459835 .
• Robert W. McChesney , Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster (Eds.): Capitalism and the information age , c1998, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459894 .
• Ellen Meiksins Wood, Peter Meiksins and Michael Yates (Eds.): Rising from the ashes? , c1998, New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853459398 .

German translations

• The unit starts at home , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-87975-929-4 .
• Transformation of capitalism , VSA-Verlag, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-87975-948-0 .
• Democracy versus capitalism. Contributions to the renewal of historical materialism , Neuer ISP-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-89900-123-5 ( PDF ).
• The origin of capitalism. A search for traces , Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-942281-67-6 .
• The Empire of Capital , Laika-Verlag, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-944233-71-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ellen Meiksins Wood in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ellen Wood in an interview with the Canadian magazine New Socialist, German translation on the pages of GlobKult magazine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood at broadbentinstitute.ca, accessed January 19, 2016
2. ^ Obituary by David McNally , theguardian.com, accessed February 12, 2016.
3. ↑ Interview with Wood from the Monthly Review of May 1999 at monthlyreview.org, accessed on January 19, 2016
4. ↑ Book review on stuetzle.cc, accessed on January 24, 2016
5. ↑ Ellen Meiksins Wood, author and third wife of Ed Broadbent, dead at 73 ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at timescolonist.com, accessed January 19, 2016