Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by PARKER Ian
Ian Parker describes the stakes of the difference between an approach that is just a malignant mirror of capitalism and an approach that is for free association as the core of communist politics.
This little book [[https://resistancebooks.org/product/stalinist-realism-and-open-communism] is (...)
, by PARKER Ian
Ten aspects of Marxism are highlighted in this paper by Ian Parker on what we could or should expect socialism to look like.
Paper presented ’The 46th Discipline Forum of the National College of Marxist Theory Discipline’ (Guangxi University for Nationalities)- ‘New Development of Socialism (...)
, by DAVIDSON Neil
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule is an important intervention within Marxist historical debates which seeks to use the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) to explain the origin and rise to dominance of capitalism. The argument is shaped by a (...)
, by DAVIDSON Neil
Since the 1990s there has been an upsurge of academic interest in Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development, but relatively little attention has been paid to its intellectual antecedents. These two articles reconstruct the sources and components of uneven and combined development, (...)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Vpered: 1. What parts of the Marxist heritage clearly belong to the past, and which ones do you feel remain equally relevant today?
Daniel Bensaïd: I’d like to start by nuancing or differentiating the very idea of heritage. There isn’t one heritage, but many: an “orthodox” (Party or State) (...)
, by WRIGHT Erik Olin
Can emancipatory social science provide a framework for rethinking paths forward from capitalism? Erik Olin Wright on the navigational tools that might orient a route towards a non-statist socialism; and on the necessary preconditions for transformative theory.
Throughout most of the (...)
, by SINGER Daniel
Just before I left Paris I got a book from Michael Lowy with a new preface and a quotation I want to share with you. It said “Marx is definitely dead for humankind.” Come on Daniel, you will object, did you have to travel all the way to give us that tripe we can get here for a penny a dozen! (...)
, by MANDEL Ernest
Outside his specific economic theories, Marx’s main contribution to the social sciences has been his theory of historical materialism. Its starting point is anthropological. Human beings cannot survive without social organisation.
Social organisation is based upon social labour and social (...)
, by ADORNO Theodor
It has become customary for the outgoing chair of the German Society for Sociology to say a few words of their own. In this case, his own position and the meaning of the problems being posed are not to be strictly separated: each is unavoidably conjoined to the other. On the other hand he can (...)
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