Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management - Castoriadis
From the Analysis of Bureaucracy to Workers Management
Cornelius Castoriadis
How does one characterize such a regime from a Marxist point of veiw? Sociologically speaking it was clear that it should be defined in the same way as the Russian regime. And it is here that the weakness and the absurdity of the trotskyist conception became evident.
Ten Theses on Marxism Today (1950)
An insightful short critical survey of Marxism's strengths and weaknesses.
Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement
How Marxism exposes the weaknesses of sociology.
A Non-dogmatic approach to Marxism
Korsch discusses the meaning and use of Marxist dialectics via a surveys of articles by himself, Sorel and Lenin.
The Present State of the Problem of Marxism and Philosophy: An Anti-critique
This text is an answer to the criticism Korsch received from "orthodox" "Marxists" on the publication of his Marxism and Philosophy - both of the Leninist variety and the "western" variety who believed they had "broken" with "soviet Marxism".
Marxism and Philosophy - Karl Korsch
On the philosophical content of Marxism, the role of dialectics and consciousness.
Introduction to Capital - Karl Korsch
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract: owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life.
Why I am a Marxist - Korsch
Instead of discussing Marxism in general I propose to deal at once with some of the most effective points of Marxist theory and practice. Only such an approach conforms with the principle of Marxian thought. For the Marxist, there is no such thing as 'Marxism' in general any more than there is a 'democracy' in general, a 'dictatorship' in general or a estate' in general.
What is Ideology?
Source: Specters of Marx, the state of the debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International, translated by Peggy Kamuf, Routledge 1994
What is ideology? Can one translate with regard to it the logic of surviving that we have just glimpsed with regard to the patrimony of the idol, and what would be the interest of such an operation?
Manifesto of the German Anti Parliamentarians to the Proletariat of the World
Origins of the KAPD
Comrades ! Proletarians !
