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Marxism - further reading guide

libcom's guide to further reading on Marxism and Marxist critique.

Critique of Political Economy

*Karl Marx:
Wage-Labor and Capital
Value, Price, and Profit
Capital, Vol. 1-3
A Critique of Political Economy
The Poverty of Philosophy
Grundrisse
Capital, Vol. 4 (Theories of Surplus Value)
1844 Manuscripts

http://www.greenwich.ac.uk/~fa03/ (Alan Freeman's web site, lots of TSS conference materials)

Open Marxism - further reading guide

libcom's guide to further reading around the Open Marxism school, which drew on anarchist criticism of the state.

*Open Marxism, 3 Vols. – Bonefeld, et al.
*Post-Fordism and Social Form: A Marxist Debate on the Post-Fordist State - Bonefeld/Holloway, Eds.
*State and Capital: A Debate – Holloway/Picciotto, Eds.
The State Debate - Clarke, Ed.
*Global Capital, National State and the Politics of Money – Bonefeld/Holloway, Eds.
*Reading Capital Politically – Cleaver

Society and mind in Marxian philosophy - Anton Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek on materialism, Marxism and the relation of the individual to society in modern capitalism.

Materialism and historical materialism - Anton Pannekoek

Anton Pannekoek writes as J. Harper on Marxism, historical materialism and materialism in 1942.

The inevitability of communism - Paul Mattick

The Inevitability of Communism by Paul Mattick is his criticism in 1936 of Sidney Hook's interpretation from what Mattick regards as the position of the orthodox dialectic materialist.

Editors Introduction (from the original pamphlet)

Karl Korsch: a Marxist friend of anarchism - A.R. Giles-Peters

A look at the life of Marxist theoretician Karl Korsch, and the relevance of his theoretical work to anarchism.

The pursuit of revolutionary struggle by what Marxism and Philosophy called an "ideological dictatorship" is in three ways different from the system of intellectual oppression established in Russia today in the name of the "dictatorship of the proletariat." First of all, it is a dictatorship of the proletariat and not over the proletariat.

Economic Content of Socialism in Lenin; Is It the Same as in Marx?

Paresh Chattopadhyay on the economic ideas of Lenin's, as opposed to Marx's socialism.

Economic Content of Socialism in Lenin
Is It the Same as in Marx?

Paresh Chattopadhyay

Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) January 26, 1991.

Workerism - Wildcat (UK)

Wildcat's critique of the crude ideology of workerism (which should not be confused with operaism, which is sometimes translated as "workerism").

Workerism is a form of capitalist ideology that is endemic amongst self-defined revolutionaries.

It is an ideology that encourages the acceptance of, and propaganda for wage-labour, amongst individuals who have realised the exploitation and alienation that wage-labour entails. It is thus one of the highest forms of alienation.

Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga - Gilles Dauvé

Comments on the politics and contributions to revolutionary communist theory of Leon Trotsky, Anton Pannekoek and Amadeo Bordiga.

It may be interesting to examine these three men, not as individuals, but as standpoints, because in the eyes of many people who try to understand something in our time, they represent three different situations and analyses.

The Politics of Subjectivity - Russell Jacoby

Jacoby's critique of the fetish of subjectivity was a response to developments in the Sixties 'counter-culture', as theory came to be rejected in favour of explorations of personal subjectivity; feelings, behaviour etc. So it may appear to be outdated and irrelevant now. But his critique can still be applied to some political expressions today; both lifestylism and some insurrectionist ideologies fetishise personal revolt and certain 'rebellious' attitudes as forms of exemplary behaviour intended to educate and inflame 'the masses' in the radical path to follow (or, failing that, at least to show the inherent superiority of the activist role).

Similarly, those populists who seek to politically represent the working class and its 'real' immediate consciousness - and so fetishise working class subjectivity as it is - attribute, in prolier-than-thou style, something inherently radical to the role of being working class - leading "them to define the working class, its interests and consciousness in terms of their most immediate, temp