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Marxism Overviews AlterLinks Topic Index Adventures in Marxism Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism. The Betrayal of Marx Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 The public has too long been fed the view that figures such as Lenin and Stalin are genuine followers of Marx, simply because they have claimed that distinction. Nothing justifies the deeds of a perverse 'Marxism' (e.g. that of Stalin); a proper understanding of Marxist humanism, and its betrayal, in contrast, enables us to raise afresh the question of means and to reevaluate the relevant historical, economic, and political facts. Das Capital, Volume 1 A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production Resource Type: Book Published: 1890 Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations. Das Capital, Volume 2 The Process of Circulation of Capital Resource Type: Book Published: 1956 Das Capital, Volume 3 The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole Resource Type: Book Published: 1971 The Communist Manifesto Resource Type: Book Published: 1848 Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association. Connexions Digest Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991 Critique of the Gotha Programme Resource Type: Article Published: 1875 Karl Marx's criticisms of the programme adopted by congress to unite the two German socialist parties in 1875. The Death of the State in Marx and Engels Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 Surveys the thinking of Marx and Engels on the 'dying-away' of the state in socialist (communist) society. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought Resource Type: Book Published: 1983 Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001 Book review Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it. The Grundrisse Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953. Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 12 volumes The History of Marxism 1. Marxism in Marx's Day Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 Introduction to Capital Resource Type: Article Published: 1932 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. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth. Introduction to the Critique of the Gotha Programme Resource Type: Article Published: 1922 Next to the Communist Manifesto of 1847-8 and the 'General Introduction' to the Critique of Political Economy of 1857, the Critique of the Gotha Programme of 1875 is, of all Karl Marx's shorter works, the most complete, lucid and forceful expression of the bases and consequences of his economic and social theory. Karl Marx Resource Type: Book Published: 1938 It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx's social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arisen under the impact of those events. In so doing we shall deal throughout with the original ideas of Marx himself rather than with their subsequent developments brought about by the various 'orthodox' and 'revisionist, dogmatic and critical, radical and moderate schools of the Marxists on the one hand, and their more or less violent critics and opponents on the other hand. Karl Marx: Essential Writings Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials. Karl Marx: His Life and Thought Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 A biography of Karl Marx. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume I: State and Bureaucracy Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution Volume IV: Critique of Other Socialisms Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. Draper looks at these critiques to illuminate what Marx's socialism was, as well as what it was not. Leading Principles of Marxism: A Restatement Resource Type: Article Published: 1937 Marx's study of society is based upon a full recognition of the reality of historical change. Marx treats all conditions of existing bourgeois society as changing, ie more exactly, as conditions in the process of being changed by human actions. Bourgeois society is not, according to Marx, a general entity which can be replaced by another stage in a historical movement. It is both the result of an earlier phase and the starting point of a new phase, of the social class war which is leading to a social revolution. Marx for Beginners Resource Type: Book Marx and Nature A Red and Green Perspective Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism. Marx on Democratic Forms of Government Resource Type: Article Published: 1974 Marx's socialism (communism) as a political programme may be most quickly defined, from the Marxist standpoint, as the complete democratization of society, not merely of political forms. For Marx, the fight for democratic forms of government - democratization in the state - was a leading edge of the socialist effort; not its be-all and end-all but an integral part of it all. Marxism and Freedom From 1776 to Today Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Dunayevskaya argues that Marx's theory is the generalisation of the instinctive striving of the proletariat for a new social order, a truly human society. Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work. Marxism: an Introduction to a Misunderstood Philosophy Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 An introduction to fundamental principles of Marxism, and and examination of how these principles have been misrepresented by dictators and war criminals, leading to widespread misunderstanding. The Marxism of the First International Resource Type: Article Published: 1924 On 28 September 1864 it was decided at an international meeting of workers in London to found the International Workingmen's Association. On 25 July 1867, Karl Marx wrote the preface to the first edition of the first volume of Capital. Within one single period of history, in the 1860s, both aspects of Marxism attained their full realization: the new autonomous science of the working class attained its developed theoretical form in literature at the same time as the new autonomous movement of the proletariat achieved its practical form in history. Marxism.ca Resource Type: Website Published: 2016 A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions. Marxist Groups & Websites Resource Type: Website A list of Marxist websites and groups. A Marxist History of the World part 53: What is Marxism? Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 In his latest instalment, Neil Faulkner explores the complex history of Marxism - and how capitalism produced its own gravediggers. Marxist Theory and the Proletariat Resource Type: Article Published: 1903 A sketch of Marxist theory. Marx's Concept of Man Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 It is one of the peculiar ironies of history that there are no limits to the misunderstanding and distortion of theories, even in an age when there is unlimited access to the sources; there is no more drastic example of this phenomenon than what has happened to the theory of Karl Marx in the last few decades....I shall try to demonstrate that this interpretation of Marx is completely false; that his theory does not assume that the main motive of man is one of material gain; that, furthermore, the very aim of Marx is to liberate man from the pressure of economic needs, so that he can be fully human; that Marx is primarily concerned with the emancipation of man as an individual, the overcoming of alienation, the restoration of his capacity to relate himself fully to man and to nature; that Marx's philosophy constitutes a spiritual existentialism in secular language and because of this spiritual quality is opposed to the materialistic practice and thinly disguised materialistic philosophy of our age. Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy. Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle Resource Type: Article Published: 1982 May 5, 1818: Birth of Karl Marx Seeds of Fire Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Marx breathes dialectics and revolution. For Marx, radicalism means going to the root, and Marx's radicalism seeks to go to the root of capitalism, to comprehend its essence dialectically, to understand its inherent contradictions - and the seeds of revolution it contains. Our Generation Volume 10 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1974 Radical Digressions Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Ulli Diemer's website/blog featuring comment from a radical left-libertarian Marxist perspective. Reading Capital Politically Resource Type: Book Published: 2000 Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital. Reinterrogating the Classical Marxist Discourses of Revolutionary Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Marik attempts to re-examine the "common sense" claim that Marxism had been an authoritarian political theory and practice. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal, #8 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979 Scaling the wall: what to do if you get stuck while reading Marx’s Capital Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Lots of people who start Karl Marx's Capital get stuck somewhere in the early chapters of Volume 1. Here are some suggestions are made about how to get unstuck and read the whole book. Seeds of Fire - January 1 Resource Type: Unclassified Social Reform or Revolution Resource Type: Book Published: 1908 Rosa Luxemburg's attack on reformism. Tearing Away the Veils: The Communist Manifesto Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 At the dawn of the twentieth century, there were workers who were ready to die with the Communist Manifesto. At the dawn of the twenty-first, there may be even more who are ready to live with it. Theory & Practice A polemic against Comrade Kautsky's theory of the Mass Strike Resource Type: Article Published: 1910 Rosa Luxemburg confronts Karl Kautsky on the crucial questions of the General Mass Strike and on the relationship of spontaneity to organization, as well as on the unity of theory and practice. This crucial 1910 debate in German Social Democracy led to Luxemburg's revolutionary break with Karl Kautsky and foreshadowed the collapse of the Second International at the outbreak of World War I. Three Essays on Marxism Leading Principles of Marxism; Introduction to Capital; Why I Am a Marxist Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 In these essays Korsch offers his thoughts on basic Marxist ideas. The Two Souls of Socialism Socialism from Above vs. Socialism from Below Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 It was Marx who finally brought the two ideas of socialism and democracy together, because he developed a theory which made the synthesis possible for the first time. The heart of the theory is this proposition: that there is a social majority which has the interest and motivation to change the system, and that the aim of socialism can be the education and mobilization of this mass-majority. This is the exploited class, the working class, from which comes the eventual motive-force of revolution. Hence, a socialism-from-below is possible, on the basis of a theory that sees the revolutionary potentialities in the broad masses, even if they seem backward at a given time and place. Marxism came into being in self-conscious struggle against the advocates of the Educational Dictatorship, the Savior-Dictators, the revolutionary elitists, the communist authoritarians, as well as the philanthropic dogooders and bourgeois liberals. Why I am a Marxist Resource Type: Article Published: 1935 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 'state' in general. There is only a bourgeois state, a proletarian dictatorship or a fascist dictatorship, etc. And even these exist only at determinate stages of historical development, with corresponding historical characteristics, mainly economic, but conditioned also in part by geographical, traditional, and other factors. With the deferent levels of historical development, with the different environments of geographical distribution, with the well-known differences of creed and tendency among the various Marxist schools, there exist, both nationally and internationally, very different theoretical systems and practical movements which go by the name of Marxism. Yes, There is an Alternative! A review of Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, by Peter Hudis Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Peter Hudis has written a valuable analysis of what Marx said on a critical issue. In this sense it reminds me of Hal Draper’s volumes on Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution. Hudis’s subject matter differs from Draper’s in that it deals with what comes after the revolution, rather than with how we get there. It also differs in method: While Draper was centrally concerned with Marx’s politics, Hudis, writing in what’s called the Marxist-Humanist tradition, sees engagement with Hegel’s dialectic as an essential part of creating a Marxism adequate to ever-changing times.

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