This rejoinder to Randall Germain's promotion of a ‘non-Marxist’ historical materialism focuses on a number of weaknesses revealed by his ‘resistance’ to the recovery of the concept of class in international political economy. Most notable is the binary line he draws throughout his argument between class identity, on the one hand, and the formation of collective subjectivities on the other, which results in the very effacing of class in IPE that was so central to my original concerns. Flowing from this, my rejoinder reveals a series of unquestioned answers he provides from his philosophically idealist posture as well as a series of unanswered questions that are left hanging for future debate.
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