Karl Marx’s critique of political economy and measurement of gender inequality

Karl Marx’s critique of political economy is oriented on an Aufhebung [a sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, aimed at self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published within the Marx-Engels…

Karl Marx, Wage-Labour and Slave Labour: From the patriarchal families to the world wide web

Karl Marx’s unfinished critique of political economy is oriented towards an Aufhebung [sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, to facilitate the self-emancipation of the wage-labourer. He divided his corresponding task into 6 topics: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the state, foreign trade and, world market. His output continues to be published…

Revisiting Maximilien Rubel on the emancipation of women in the works of Marx and Engels

This is a reconstruction of the course of evolution of Marx’s and Engels’s ideas on women’s emancipation by Maximilien Rubel (1905-1996). Rubel drafted this article shortly before his death in 1996. This is a chronological narrative. It has not received the notice that it richly deserves since its publication in French in 1997 and that of its English translation in 2003. In the present transcription of this text I…