class
A class is a group of people connected by a common relationship to the means of production. On this site class is not a system of individual classification, it is a model for understanding and thus changing society.
The Inversion of Class Perspective in Marxian Theory: From Valorization to Self-valorization
An article on contemporary Marxism by US academic Harry Cleaver.
In PDF Format.
On the Condition of the English Working Class
Work by Engels before he met Marx. Not recommended reading, unless you hate Irish people.
Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union
Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union
Werner Bonefeld
Preamble
The following four quotations focus the essay's argument. The Preamble concludes with a fairly conventional observation on EMU by way of summary.
The Rights of the Horse and the Rights of Man
Paul Lafargue's
THE RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN
Socialism and the Intellectuals
Paul Lafargue's
SOCIALISM AND THE INTELLECTUALS
Class struggle is asymmetrical
Class Struggle is Asymmetrical
John Holloway
Atilio Borón's article, raises with exemplary clarity issues that are central to the discussion of communist strategy today. It is because I disagree with him (as he disagrees with me) that I write this short reply.
Black Capitalism
Black Capitalism, by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 2001.
On some aspects of the dialectic of labour in the Critique of Political Economy
Chattopadhyay's discussion on the nature of labour in capitalist society and comments on Marx's The Critique of Political Economy.
In the following lines we discuss the contradictions inherent in the category of labor that Marx underlines in his different writings where labor is examined in its multiple existence - labor as such, abstract and concrete labor, necessary and surplus labor.
Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
Marxist-Humanism's concept of 'Subject'
Editor's Note: In early years of the 1970s leading up to the completion of her book, PHILOSOPHY AND REVOLUTION: FROM HEGEL TO SARTRE AND FROM MARX TO MAO, Raya Dunayevskaya engaged young revolutionaries in the ideas presented in that work. An example is a Jan. 15, 1971 letter, excerpted here, to young members of News and Letters Committees. Her discussion of the connection between subjects of revolt and philosophy speaks to concerns presented in our "Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives" (See pp. 1, 5-8). The original can be found in Supplement to THE RAYA DUNAYEVSKAYA COLLECTION, 14110-11. Footnotes are by the editors.
The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle - Paul Mattick
Mattick surveys the historical organisational forms of the old workers movement, and how a changing capitalism has either integrated them or made them redundant.
