Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
Libertarian Marxism?
2 essays by Daniel Guerin, written in 1969.
LIBERTARIAN MARXISM ?
2 essays by Daniel Guerin
"Be realistic, do the impossible"
A LIBERTARIAN MARX ?
Review: Moishe Postone - capital beyond class struggle?
In Germany Moishe Postone is best known for his work discussing anti-Semitism in terms of the commodity form. However, elsewhere he is perhaps far better known for his radical re-interpretation of Marx as ‘critical social theory’.
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A ballad against work - Kamunist Kranti
Indian communist group Kamunist Kranti's pamphlet about wage labour, A ballad against work.
Chapter 1 The ingenuities of our times 1.1 Our times ... "Money can buy everything, it is said. What is not said is what it takes to buy money."
Absolute Property - G. Kay & J. Mott
An analysis of the nature and development of private property in relation to the state in class society, and the political prevention of the abundance that modern productive capacities make possible.
"[i]If the productive capacities already deployed were oriented towards need, necessary labour would be reduced to a minimum, so that nothing would stand between men and what they need to live. Money and the law of labour would lose their force, and, as its foundations crumbled, the political state would wither away.
Notes on Bakunin's book 'Statehood and Anarchy' - Karl Marx
Marx responds to Bakunin's criticisms of Marx and Marxism. Marx's comments were written at the end of 1874 as he read Bakunin's book as part of his efforts to learn Russian and to study Russian society.
Marx's late writings on the Russian 'mir' (peasant commune) were influenced by Bakunin's descriptions of communal peasant society in 'Statehood and Anarchy'.
From Volume 24 of 'Marx & Engels - Collected Works'; Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1989.
Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke
An examination of the limits of 2nd & 3rd International 'Orthodox Marxism' and the later theoretical contribution of the Situationist Guy Debord.
From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005
Libertarian Marxism's Relation to Anarchism - Wayne Price
The current world-wide revival of anarchism is premised on the decline of Marxism. Yet there remains a strand of Marxism (libertarian or autonomist Marxism) to which anarchists often feel close and whose followers often express a closeness to anarchism.
Its libertarian-democratic, humanist, and anti-statist qualities permit anarchists to use valuable aspects of Marxism (such as the economic analysis or the theory of class struggle). Yet it still contains the main weaknesses of Marxism. And in certain ways it has the same weaknesses of much of anarchism, rather than being an alternative.
The philosophical roots of the Marx-Bakunin conflict - Ann Robertson
Article about political differences between Bakunin and Marx, which correlated to the anarchist-Marxist split in the First International.
The author is biased in favour of Marx's views, but fails to give credit for Bakunin's influence on Marx (such as forcing him to clarify his views on the state) or those instances where Bakunin had more insight than Marx (such as on the evolution and counter-revolutionary nature of Social Democracy).
Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital - Silvia Federici & Mario Montano
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A text from the first wave of Italian ‘autonomist Marxist’ theory, first published under the name Guido Baldi in Radical America (Vol. 6, No. 3, May-June 1972).
There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright
Steve Wright analysis different currents of autonomist Marxism, centred in Italy from the 1960s and 70s to today.
How to interpret the contours of autonomist Marxism over the past quarter century? Before 1979, any discussion of the topic would necessarily have centred upon the Italian experience.
