Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
Marx, theoretician of anarchism
Maximilien Rubel's 1973 article highlighting the libertarian elements within Marx's work and its importance to anarchism, regardless of Marx's lengthy critiques of famous anarchist theoreticians.
Marx has been badly served by disciples who have succeeded neither in assessing the limits of his theory nor in determining its standards and field of application and has ended up by taking on the role of some mythical giant, a symbol of the omniscience and omnipotence of homo faber, maker of his own destiny.
Banking and Credit Myths - A Socialist View
1990's pamphlet from ex-SPGB group "Socialist Studies" debunking commonly held misconceptions surrounding the banking system.
BANKING AND CREDIT MYTHS
The growth of human knowledge - And the exception
Ideology and Superstructure in Historical Materialism - Franz Jakubowski (1936)
Apparently freely available online for the first time here, this 1930s book is far less well known than its subject matter. With an admirable clarity of style, Jakubowski provides a summary of the main themes of Lukacs' History and Class Consciousness and Korschs' Marxism and Philosophy (Korsch was a personal friend of Jakubowski.)
Social reproduction for beginners
In the worldwide renaissance of interest in the work of Karl Marx of the past decade, a renaissance well-timed for the current (August 2007-November 2008) textbook liquidity crisis resulting lawfully from the anarchic character of capitalist accumulation, one key concept of Marx still remains in the shadows: the expanded reproduction of society and of nature.
SOCIAL REPRODUCTION FOR BEGINNERS:
BRINGING THE REAL WORLD BACK IN
Loren Goldner
Karl Marx - further reading guide
Libcom's guide to reading Marx by subject.
A. Communist critique
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
B. Critique of the State
Critique of the Gotha Program
Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Invaders from Marx: on the uses of Marxian theory, and the difficulties of a contemporary reading - Michael Heinrich
The following text is the slightly reworked version of an article which appeared on 21 September 2005 in “Jungle World”, a leftist German weekly newspaper. In a previous issue, Karl Heinz Roth. one of the main German representatives of Operaismo, had argued that some important Marxian categories are not able to grasp contemporary capitalism. The text at hand answers this critique, stressing the difference between Marxian theory and traditional Marxism, emphasizing the “new reading of Marx”, which developed through the last decades. The German text can be found at the website of the author: www.oekonomiekritik.de
In the past 120 years, Marx has been read and understood in widely varying ways. In the Social Democratic and Communist worker’s movement, Marx was viewed as the great Economist, who proved the exploitation of the workers, the unavoidable collapse of capitalism, and the inevitability of proletarian revolution.
The permanent crisis: Henryk Grossman’s interpretation of Marx’s theory of capitalist accumulation - Paul Mattick
Mattick's classic work on the economic theories of Henryk Grossman and the dynamics behind the inevitable downfall of capitalism.
Introduction
Prefaces to the Communist Manifesto
Prefaces to different editions of the Communist Manifesto.
The 1872 German Edition
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
The Manifesto of the Communist Party Communist Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League and published in 1848, and remains one of the world's most influential political tracts.
While we do not agree with all of it we reproduce it for reference, and readers should bear in mind that it was commissioned propaganda for the League.
Introduction
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism
This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized by the Russian Academy of Science on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The conference was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dimitrov on December 8 - 14, 1992. It was the first such conference to be held on Russian soil since the Revolution in 1917.
by Harry Cleaver
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism Options
