This is the final portion of an examination of some principal themes in Bill Martin’s book, Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation. The first two parts of this essay have been published over the past two days and can be found below. Marxism, Politics, and Evil: A Critical Engagement with “Ethical Marxism” John Steele [...]
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Marxism, politics, and evil, part 2
This is the second part of an essay on the book Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, in which Bill Martin argues that Marxism requires morality in order to guide a revolutionary politics. Part I, which was posted yesterday, was principally concerned with exposition. Today’s post takes up the principal line of argument of [...]
Marxism, Politics, and Evil, part 1
Is Marxism, or revolutionary politics generally, sufficient for human emancipation? In Ethical Marxism, Bill Martin argues that Marxism requires ethics as the necessary foundation of any politics which may actually be capable of leading to this goal. Following is the first part of an essay critically examining this book and this thesis. The entire piece [...]
Bill Martin: Into the Wild
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Vern Grey: Questions provoked by Bill Martin’s Ethical Marxism
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A new pamphlet
“Into the Wild,” Bill Martin’s long essay recently published on this site, has now been published as a pamphlet by our sister site Kasama. The pamphlet, which includes as an appendix Martin’s earlier essay “Dear Professor Badiou: About the RCP Assault on Alain Badiou, Philosophy And (Ultimately) Communism Itself,” can be downloaded as a pdf [...]
Bill Martin: Into the Wild – 3
This is the final installment of Bill Martin’s essay. The first two were published earlier this week and appear below. Taking stock of contingency in politics (and quite possibly in the other domains of truth as Badiou understands them) means grappling with this notion of line without linearity. Just as a provocation (for now), I [...]
Bill Martin: Into the Wild – 2
This is the second segment of Bill Martin’s essay, the first having been published Monday. The third and final installment will appear on Friday. I hope there is some material here that will be useful in the larger context of rethinking the question of the state, the question of forms of revolutionary organization, and questions [...]
Bill Martin: Into the Wild – 1
How do we, how should we, approach the radical reconception of revolutionary theory? Within this, what part should be played by a critical reexamination of past approaches and experiences? These are the questions — some of the questions — of this important essay by Bill Martin, which will be published here in three parts. Martin [...]
Kant, the animal question, and an ethics of revolution
Bill Martin’s recent book Ethical Marxism is subtitled The Categorical Imperative of Liberation, and the ethics which Martin proposes must be made integral to a reconstituted Marxism is very much a Kantian one. This aspect of Martin’s perspective, along with others, is taken up in this, the final portion, of Vern Gray’s essay, “On Some [...]
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