Marxism
Articles about Marxism, and key Marxist texts.
Value, Labour and Negativity
Value, labour and negativity
Author: Arthur, Christopher J Source: Capital & Class 15-39 no. 73 (Spring 2001): p. 15-39 ISSN: 0309-8168 Number: 70073390 Copyright: Copyright Conference of Socialist Economists Spring 2001
Negative Dialectics
Negative Dialectics
By Theodor Adorno
Suhrkamp Verlag 1970 Frankfurt am Main
Original text is copyright 1997 by Suhrkamp Verlag.
The text of this translation is copyright 2001 Dennis Redmond
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Theodor W. Adorno / Max Horkheimer
Dialectic of Enlightenment
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The Irrational in Politics - Maurice Brinton
The Irrational in Politics
Maurice Brinton, 1970
Propaganda and policemen, prisons and schools, traditional values and traditional morality all serve to reinforce the power of the few and to convince or coerce the many into acceptance of a brutal, degrading and irrational system.
(AS WE SEE IT - Solidarity)
N.B. There are some patriarchal and offensive comments in this essay.
Opportunism and the Art of the Possible
Rosa argues in 1898 against "opportunism" in her Party.
Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive
Opportunism and the art of the possible
Written: September 1898
Source: Sachsische Arbeiter zeitung, September 30, 1898
Transcription/Markup: Dario Romeo and Brian Basgen
The Commune, the Church and the State
From: Bakunin's Writings, Guy A. Aldred Modern Publishers, Indore Kraus Reprint co. New York 1947
THE COMMUNE, THE CHURCH & THE STATE.
I am a passionate seeker for truth and just as strong an opponent of the corrupting lies, through which the party of order -- this privileged, official, and interested representative of all religions, philosophical political, legal economical, and social outrage in the past and present -- has tried to keep the world in ignorance. I love freedom with all my heart. It is the only condition under which the intelligence, the manliness, and happiness of the people, can develop and expand. By freedom, however, I naturally understand not its mere form, forced down as from above, measured and controlled by the state, this eternal lie which in reality, is nothing but the privilege of the few founded upon the slavery of all.
Leninism or Marxism - Rosa Luxemburg
Leninism or Marxism was published as an article in 1904 under the title "Organisational Questions of the Russian Social Democracy" in Iskra and Neue Zeit, and later reprinted in pamphlet form titled Marxism vs. Leninism in 1935 by the Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation.
Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Lenin's concept of revolutionary organisation, show the disagreements within the Marxist movements in Europe in the years preceding 1917; her comparisons with Blanquism and chillingly accurate predictions of the consequences of such organisation in a successful revolution are incredibly important to an understanding of the differing interpretations of Marx at that tim
The Mass Strike - Rosa Luxemburg
The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions by Rosa Luxemburg, written and first published: 1906
Publisher: Marxist Educational Society of Detroit, 1925
Translated: Patrick Lavin
Online Version: Rosa Luxemburg Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1999
Transcription/Markup: AL
What was the USSR? Part III
In the previous articles we examined various Trotskyist and neo-Trotskyist positions on the nature of the USSR.
We now turn to the theories of the less well known but more interesting Communist Left, who were among the first revolutionary Marxists to distance themselves from the Russian model by deeming it state capitalist or simply capitalist.The Russian Left Communists' critique remained at the level of an immediate response to how capitalist measures were affecting the class, whereas in both the German/D
A Contribution to the Critique of Marx - John Crump
This essay was published in pamphlet form in February 1976. It was published jointly by Social Revolution and Solidarity.
A number of us who went on to form Subversion were members of Social Revolution at the time. It marked our first attempts to get away from hanging on every word of Karl Marx's and to try to understand why his works spawned such a diverse variety of political thought - ranging from communism to state capitalism.
