Alex Callinicos
Alex Callinicos | |
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 Alex Callinicos in 2009 | |
| Born | Alexander Theodore Callinicos 24 July 1950 |
Political party | SWP |
| Relatives | John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (grandfather) |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Marxism | |
| Institutions | University of York King's College London |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | Marxist anti-imperialist theory of the interaction between capitalist accumulation and interstate power politics |
Alexander Theodore Callinicos (born 24 July 1950) is a British Marxist political theorist and activist, born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. An adherent of Trotskyism, he has been a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and has served as its International Secretary. Between 2009 and 2020 he was the editor of International Socialism, the SWP's theoretical journal, and has published a number of books.