Against Historical Materialism: Marxism as a First-order Discourse - Richard Gunn In 1992, Richard Gunn writes against a teleological account of Marx's theory for Open Marxism volume…
Rights - Richard Gunn This short paper, published in the Edinburgh Review's 'Encyclopaedia' section, was written at a time when rights discourse was on the eve of…
Practical Reflexivity in Marx - Richard Gunn Richard Gunn writes about the importance of practical reflexivity between theory and practice. Published in Common Sense no. 1, pages 39-51, in…
Marxism and Mediation - Richard Gunn Richard Gunn writes about the concept of mediations: for Marx, mediations of the contradictions inherent in the commodity-form (the central…
Marxism and philosophy: a critique of critical realism - Richard Gunn Richard Gunn, a co-founder of Open Marxism, critiques structuralism for the disconnected duality of…
Revolutionary Writing - Werner Bonefeld Common Sense was the Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) published from 1987-1999. Revolutionary Writing is a…
Open Marxism 3: Emancipating Marx Open Marxism 3: Emancipating Marx was released in 1995. The introduction to volume 3 is included below along with the full PDF. For a fuller…
Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice Open Marxism 2: Theory and Practice was released with volume 1 in 1992. The introduction to volume 2 is included below along with the full PDF…
Open Marxism 1: Dialectics and History Open Marxism 1: Dialectics and History was released with volume 2 in 1992. The introduction to volume 1 gives an overview of Open Marxism and is…
Notes on Class Richard Gunn's notes offer a lucid contribution to the attempt of elaborating what is meant when the concept "class" is employed in Marxist thought.