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Michael Kidron (20 September 1930 – 25 March 2003) was a British cartographer. He was one of the early founders of the International Socialists (forerunners of the Socialist Workers Party; SWP) through the 1960s and 1970s, and the first editor of International Socialism journal.
Michael Kidron (1930–2003) was among the most insightful theorists of the International Socialist tradition and a former editor of this journal. [1] His early work focused on an analysis of capitalism during its sustained expansion in the decades following the Second World War.
Michael Kidron was a leading theoretician of the British Socialist Review Group and its successor, the International Socialists, from the mid-1950s, when he joined the group, until the mid-1970s, when he dropped out of active politics.
Jan 10, 2020 · A new edition of Capitalism and Theory (Haymarket, 2018) has made a selection of writings by Michael Kidron available to a new audience in print for the first time in decades. Kidron was a founder and important early theorist of the International Socialist tradition and an editor of this journal.
Kidron is best known as a Marxist economist, and according to Chris Harman, he was “probably the most important Marxist economist of his generation”. His work in explaining the role of arms expenditure in the temporary stability of post-war capitalism was ground-breaking, and became a cornerstone of IS theory.
An inspiring speaker and brilliantly sophisticated theorist, Michael Kidron was a leading figure in the International Socialist tradition from the 1950s until his death in 2003.
Michael Kidron [1] was a British cartographer. He was one of the early founders of the International Socialists through the 1960s and 1970s, and the first editor of International Socialism journal. [2] He is perhaps best remembered for writing The State of the World Atlas, jointly with Ronald Segal and Dan Smith.
