 The
Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels,
Martin Edward Malia (Introduction).
In the 150 years since
its publication, no other treatise has inspired such a dividing
and violent debate, and after the recent collapse of several
regimes which had initially embraced it, a retrospective
interpretation of the essential ideas it advocates is presented
in this comprehensive volume. This edition of Karl Marx's
philosophy is the authorized English translation of 1888, edited
and annotated by Friedrich Engels, and includes prefaces to the
several editions published between 1872 and 1888....
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Fredric Jameson is a Marx and Marxism scholar.
This bibliography was compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan.
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Essay by Kelly Ross.
Excerpt:
Karl Marx (1818-1883) did not have a theory of morality, he had a
theory of history. Thus, Marxism was not about right or wrong but about what
will
happen in history. Marx was contemptuous of people who judged things in moral terms. When
diehards say that Marxism has actually never been "tried" (despite what Lenin,
Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho, and Daniel Ortega thought they were doing), they don't understand
that Marxism was not a rule for behavior or a program for action; it was supposed to be
the theory of a deterministic mechanism that will produce the future. This was not a
theory about "human nature" or "human psychology", but about how the
mode
of economic production (how goods and services are produced) determines all the other
political, social, cultural, and moral structures of a society. The needs of the
"English petty bourgeois" are thus not "false needs", however
dismissive Marx sounds, but true needs in relation to a capitalistic mode of
production--needs which will change over time, in a historicist sense, as the mode of
production changes. As a "science" of history, Marxism would succeed or fail to
the extent that it could actually predict the evolution of production and its various
effects.
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Marxism in these web pages is understood as the theory and
practice of working class self-emancipation. This theoretical and political tradition is
radically different from the way Marxism is generally described by both critics and many
'adherents' who identify Marxism with the repressive state capitalist regimes that used to
dominate Russia and eastern Europe and still hold sway in China, North Korea, Vietnam and
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There are several reasons why The Communist Manifesto is still an important document. As a historically significant work, it has a certain
intrinsic interest. It is good to know what the great ideas are which have shaped history.
Some people would argue that Marxists so thoroughly betrayed Marxism that the document can
be used to show why attempts at building communist states failed: they were never truly
Marxist at all. If true Marxism has never been tried, then it might be worth reconsidering
afresh. Or if, as others argue, Marxism has intrinsic flaws that doomed it from the
beginning, we might hope to discover traces of them here which might teach us why Marxism
should be shunned. The goal here is not to convert you, but to help you explore Marx's
writing from his point of view, so that you can understand his actual meaning while still
maintaining a stance that can allow you to think critically about the subject and form
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The online journal of the Marxist Literary Group. |
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By R.J. Kilcullen
Excerpt:
...Marx does not think that in the real world full
value is always paid. But he conducts his argument on the hypothesis
that full value is paid, for several reasons. First, he wants to make
it clear that his analysis of capitalism does not rest on the
assumptions that capitalists defraud the worker. Even if there were no
cheating, capitalism could still exist. Second, he wants to show that
even an idealized capitalism would be doomed to destruction (the
argumentative strategy of proving the point for the hardest case: a
fortiori it holds for other cases). Third, he wants to make it clear
that it is in production itself, and not merely in the distribution of
the product, that the capitalists' profits originate; it is not
accidental that most (though not all) capitals are used to finance
production (not, e.g., for buying non-human commodities and selling
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Categories include:
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Marx
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Below is a list of what is included on this web page:
- Marx -- by F.
Engels, 1869
- Marx -- by V. I. Lenin, 1915
- Frederick Engels -- by V. I.
Lenin, 1895
- Karl Marx -- by Eleanor Marx
(his daughter) 1897-98
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels:
An Intro -- by David Riazanov, 1927 book
- The Death of Karl Marx
- Engels --
Handwörterbuch
der Staatswissenschaften, 1892
- Engels --
Brockhaus'
Konversations-Lexikon, 1893
- Marx and Engels various media
interviews
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- von Westphalen, Jenny --
aka Jenny Marx, wife of Karl)
- von Westphalen, Edgar
- Marx, Jenny (daughter)
- Marx, Laura
- Marx, Eleanor
- Longuet, Charles -- husband
to Jenny
- Lafargue, Paul -- husband
to Laura
- Aveling, Edward -- husband
to Eleanor
- Demuth, Helene
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Archived Marxist Resources
- Louis
Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" -- Umberto Taccheri
- Marxism versus Postmodernism
-- Bad Subjects Collective
- A Memory of
Marxism -- Paul Smith
- Marxist Media Theory -- Daniel
Chandler
- Marxist
Politics in the Age of Post-Everything -- Gary MacLennan
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