Marxism

The permanent crisis: Henryk Grossman’s interpretation of Marx’s theory of capitalist accumulation - Paul Mattick

berrot — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:34:57 +0000

Introduction

Prefaces to the Communist Manifesto

Steven. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:51:26 +0000

The 1872 German Edition

The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels

Steven. — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:44:41 +0000

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

David in Atlanta — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:52:13 +0000

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

Libertarian Marxism?

David in Atlanta — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 16:19:08 +0000

LIBERTARIAN MARXISM ?

2 essays by Daniel Guerin

"Be realistic, do the impossible"

A LIBERTARIAN MARX ?

Review: Moishe Postone - capital beyond class struggle?

Joseph K. — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:19:09 +0000

Download this article as a print-friendly pdf file here.

A ballad against work - Kamunist Kranti

catch — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:57:22 +0000

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

Ret Marut — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:44:29 +0000

"[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

Ret Marut — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:53:37 +0000

From Volume 24 of 'Marx & Engels - Collected Works'; Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1989.

Marxism is Dead! Long Live Marxism - Mike Rooke

Ret Marut — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:49:00 +0000

From; 'What Next' no. 30, 2005

Libertarian Marxism's Relation to Anarchism - Wayne Price

daniel — Wed, 16 May 2007 14:17:44 +0000

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

daniel — Wed, 16 May 2007 03:46:29 +0000

“Again, I’m not enough of a Marx scholar to pretend to an authoritative judgement. My impression, for what it is worth, is that the early Marx was very much a figure of the late Enlightenment, and the later Marx was a highly authoritarian activist, and a critical analyst of capitalism, who had little to say about socialist alternatives. But those are impressions.” Noam Chomsky.

Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital - Silvia Federici & Mario Montano

Joseph K. — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:06:56 +0000

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

Joseph K. — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:02:40 +0000

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.

Review - Cyber-Marx

Joseph K. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:29:56 +0000

The subtitle of this book is Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High-Technology Capitalism. This hints of an attempt to analyse the current state of global class composition, to unearth the tendencies leading out of our current paralysis and offer hope of a new world. A Communist Manifesto for the 21^st Century perhaps?

Keep on Smiling - questions on immaterial labour

Joseph K. — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:20:40 +0000

Toni Negri and Michael Hardt’s recent works, Empire and Multitude, have earned these authors great popularity in the Anglo-Saxon world. Negri is known in Italy for belonging to autonomia operaia in the ’70s and for being on the receiving end of political persecution by the Italian state at the end of that decade. His earlier work (above all Marx Beyond Marx) was a valid contribution to the understanding of the nature of capitalism and influenced many among us who sought an answer to Marxist objectivism and a theory of history based on class struggle. However, Negri’s earlier work circulated among a restricted public, via obscure publishers. The new Toni Negri for the ‘new’ era emerges in 2000 with Empire. A tome written with literature professor Michael Hardt, Empire was warmly welcomed even by the bourgeois press.

Théorie Communiste responds

Joseph K. — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:49:08 +0000

In Aufheben #11 we published a critique of our articles on ‘decadence’ (from Aufheben issues 2-4) by the French group Théorie Communiste (TC). In the following issue we published our reply to TC’s critique. Since then we have had a number exchanges with TC in which they responded to our reply.

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The arcane of reproductive production

Joseph K. — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:38:11 +0000

Introduction
One of the main contentions at the core of Autonomist Marxism is that all human activity in either the sphere of production or in circulation and reproduction is potentially productive, that is, can contribute to the valorisation of capital.

‘Must try harder!’: Towards a critique of Autonomist Marxism

Joseph K. — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:32:50 +0000

Our review article ‘From Operaismo to Autonomist Marxism’ (Aufheben 11) brought a robust response1 from Harry Cleaver the author of one of the two books we were responding to. As we see critique and counter critique as a way of developing theory, this reply, in which Cleaver makes some valid points, should have been an opportunity to clarify our criticisms, to acknowledge weaknesses and inadequacies in what we wrote and to restate some of the issues at stake.

1. http://www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/AufhebenResponse2.pdf

Open reply to Loren Goldner

Joseph K. — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:29:34 +0000

Introduction

Three years ago, Loren Goldner circulated a draft of his ‘Remaking of the American Working Class’ for comments among a number of groups and individuals. At first sight it seemed to present an interesting new approach to the development of both capitalism and the class struggle since World War II.

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