Articles

On the MEGA and the French Edition of Capital, Vol. I: An Appreciation and a Critique

Lenin’s Encounter with Hegel after Eighty Years

As I write these lines, it is 80 years since the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 began to undermine liberalism’s modernist faith in unilinear progress toward the well-being of all. Established Marxism, itself influenced philosophically by neo-Kantian and positivist evolutionary schemata, was almost as unprepared for the resurgence of violence and destruction in the heart of the world’s most “advanced” and democratic capitalist societies. In what was to become the first major crisis of Marxism, the Second International split apart, as fine words about internationalism receded in [...]

Derrida on Marx: (Re)turn or De(con)struction?

Ever since he stunned an international Marx conference in Riverside, California last year with his call for a return to Marx, something which also marked a major "turn" in his thought, Jacques Derrida's book The Specters of Marx has been eagerly awaited by a broad spectrum of the intellectual Left. The book is in fact a much-expanded version of that April 1993 lecture. ...

On Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory: A Critical Appreciation of Herbert Marcuse’s Reason and Revolution, Fifty Years Later

(Chinese Translation)

Rubel’s Marxology: A Critique

Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: From the 1920s to 1953

Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism: From the 1920s to 1953, Studies in Soviet Thought (Fribourg, Switzerland) 44:2

The East European Upheavals, German Unification and the Future of Marxism

Kevin B. Anderson, Die Marcuse-Dunayevskaya Korrespondenz – Marxistischer Humanismus in Amerika

A Preliminary Exploration of the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse Dialogue, 1954 to 79 (with excerpts from their correspondence and comments by Douglas Kellner)

Raya Dunayevskaya, 1910 to 1987, Marxist Economist and Philosopher