About Ben Burgis
Born 1980. Ben Burgis is a columnist and political scientist.
Ben Burgis (born 1980) is an American socialist political commentator, author and adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University. He has written articles for Jacobin, The Daily Beast and MSNBC.
He graduated from Aquinas College in Grand Rapids in 2003, and a Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 2011.
Ben Burgis explains socialism primarily based on the analytical Marxist tradition of G. A. Cohen, and focuses on reconstructing Cohen's moral and logical critique of capitalism in a modern way. He mainly uses the rigorous argumentation method of analytical philosophy to argue for the legitimacy of socialism and the problems of capitalism.
Books With Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, and Ernesto Vargas Flowers for Marx. Revol Press. 2025. With Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, and Marion Trejo Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson. Zero Books. 2020.
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American author and philosopher
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