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Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies

Review of John Rees, Algebra of Revolution

Levine on the Marxian Tradition: From Idealist Roots to Nationalism and Internationalism

In a careful reading that constitutes one of the best non-Marxist accounts of Marx, Donald N. Levine places Marx inside the German idealist tradition. However, he understates his continuing debt to G. W. F. Hegel.  While pointing correctly to Marx’s internationalism and cosmopolitanism, Levine underplays Marx’s substantial writings on nationalism, race, and ethnicity. Published in […]

Review of Congrès Marx International, proceedings of 1995 Actuel Marx conference in Paris

Julius Nyerere, African socialist

With the death of Julius Nyerere, the world has lost one of the foremost proponents of African Socialism. Nyerere's humanist vision known as UJAMAA influenced several generations of Africans as well as many throughout the world concerned with African liberation.

The Young Erich Fromm's Contribution to Criminology

On Cornelius Castoriadis

The death of Cornelius Castoriadis in December 1997 evoked respectful front-page coverage in France’s leading newspapers. Writing in Le Monde (30 Dec. 1997), the well-known sociologist Edgar Morin eulogized his friend, singling out Castoriadis’s concept of autonomy, in which the latter stressed moments in history when society carved out autonomy from the state. For Castoriadis, […]

On Marx, Hegel, and Critical Theory in Postwar Germany: A Conversation with Iring Fetscher

 – Published in Studies in East European Thought, 50: 1-28, 1998  – PDF  – Published in Chinese in World Philosophy, No. 3 (2012), trans. by Jin Shou-tie – PDF

Maximilien Rubel, 1905-1996, Libertarian Marx Editor

Uncovering Marx's Yet Unpublished Writings

When Lawrence Krader published his historic transcription of Marx's Ethnological Notebooks 25 years ago, a new window was opened into Marx's thought. What in published form had become 250 pages of notes by Marx on Lewis Henry Morgan and other anthropologists which he had compiled in his last years, 1880-81, showed us as never before a Marx concerned as much with gender relations and with non-Western societies such as India, pre-Colombian Mexico, and the Australian aborigines, as well as ancient Ireland, as he was with the emancipation of the industrial [...]
Kevin Anderson
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