Posts tagged: marxism

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  Red Scientist: Two Strands from a Life in Three Colours

  An exploration of Bernal's contribution to the politicization of science and scientists, above all the development of the Social Relations of Science movement.

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  Political Power and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Societies

  Marx’s original definition concerned political power as the direct manifestation of class antagonism, coupled with its opposite: the abolition of political power properly so-called in a fully realized socialist society. But what happens in between? Is it possible to break entrenched political power without necessarily resorting to the exercise of a fully articulated system of political power?

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  Engels, Lenin, and the Poetic of Socialist Realism

  Galvano Della Volpe's consideration of literary realism after Engels' famous remarks on Balzac and Lenin's on Tolstoy.

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  Video: David Harvey — Marx on Wall Street

  In a new video, David Harvey discusses how to read Capital today.

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  Feminism and the Refusal of Work: An Interview with Kathi Weeks

  To confront this changing landscape of work, we need today to draw on Marxist feminist analyses of gendered forms of both waged and unwaged work. The practical implication of this is that, if we want to both understand and resist contemporary forms of exploitation, Marxists can no longer remain ignorant of or separated from feminist theories and practices. 

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  All That Melts into Air is Solid: A. Sivanandan

  In this two-part essay, A. Sivanandan critiques the New Times current developed within Marxism Today, and its influence on the rhetoric of Labour in the 1990s.

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  The Crisis of Marxism: An interview with Louis Althusser

  Louis Althusser did not often given television interviews. A rare exception was his April 1980 appearance on the Italian Radio Television (RAI) program Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. Below is a transcript of his conversation with host Renato Parascandolo, translated by Ron Salaj.

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  Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias

  Perry Anderson probes Edward Thompson's work on William Morris and his defense of utopianism.  

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  Thematic Innovations of Western Marxism

  This text is excerpted from Considerations on Western Marxism, written in 1974 as the introduction to a reader on Western Marxism whose publication was ultimately delayed before appearing as a standalone volume in 1976.

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  Nationalism and Imperialism: The Premises of Hobson's Definition

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  The Labour Theory of Value and the Concept of Exploitation