Marx’s Grundrisse (Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie, or Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy) is a large work, comprising notebooks or drafts of material, written in 1857-58 in the midst of his extensive (and intense) economic studies, as he was thinking of methods of approach and presentation. As the following piece recounts, the [...]
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What could the end of capitalism look like?
We’ve had some interesting and important discussions on this site (see, recently, the comments on the Henwood piece and on the interview with Albo, Gindin, and Panitch) which have sometimes referenced fictitious capital and have often come back to three very large questions: the character and cause of the neoliberal period of the past 30 [...]
Marxism, politics, and evil, part 3
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 [...]
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 [...]
What is Marx’s theory of crisis?
Marx is much invoked in left discussions of the current economic crisis. But what does Marx say about capitalist crises? His authority has been invoked in relation to rather different theories, and what he says on the subject in Capital has subject to multiple interpretations as well as controversy. The following exposition by Cyrus Bina [...]
Bill Martin: Into the Wild
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Vern Grey: Questions provoked by Bill Martin’s Ethical Marxism
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Evaluating Fredric Jameson
Fredric Jameson has been one of the foremost Marxist cultural theorists of our age. The following review of his most recent book, Valences of the Dialectic, is reprinted from the London Review of Books. Into the Big Tent Benjamin Kunkel Fredric Jameson’s pre-eminence, over the last generation, among critics writing in English would be hard [...]
Marxism, crisis, and the falling rate of profit
One important theoretical goal is to come to grips with the multifaceted crisis of the present — social, political, economic (and theoretical/intellectual too). We’ll be publishing analyses as we find them, or as they are submitted to the site, for purposes of discussion and debate. The following was originally published at Counterfire. Marxism and the [...]
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