Aymeric Monville, Gabriel Rockhill, and Jennifer Ponce de León, Requiem for French Theory: Transatlantic Funeral Dirge in a Marxist Key (Monthly Review Press, 2026) Gabriel Rockhill, Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (Monthly Review Press, 2025) Monville, Rockhill, and Ponce de León will present the books and engage in a discussion regarding the effects of imperialism on the production and dissemination of knowledge. Far from simply engaging in a critique of the faux radicalism of the prominent discourses within the imperial theory industry, the discussion will be grounded in a reasoned defence of the vibrant international tradition of anti-imperialist Marxism. Topics to be discussed include the imperial promotion of Western Marxism and postmodern French Theory, the international war of ideas, the failed efforts to discredit anti-imperialist Marxism, culturalism and identity politics vs. a materialist analysis of the colonial question, fascism past and present, the dialectics of actually existing socialism, and the current state of global class struggle in theory and practice