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Karl Marx

Making an ecological worldview

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Ecology, Environment, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Science

What can we learn from Kautsky today?

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Karl Kautsky was known as the Pope of Marxism in the early 20th century, but until recently he appeared to have been almost forgotten.1 He was the leading theorist of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a nominally Marxist mass… Continue Reading →

Article Karl Marx, left reformism, Lenin, Reformism

Marx, Engels und ihr Kampf für Frauenbefreiung

Posted on 12th May 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 166—isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels waren große Verfechter der Frauenbefreiung – in Bezug auf die Theorieentwicklung und die Praxis, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat.1 Es wurden… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation

How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation

Posted on 29th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… Continue Reading →

Article Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, women's liberation, Women's oppression

Marx and the robbery of the soil and the worker

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017), £22.32 Kohei Saito’s book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism is based on extensive and ­painstaking research.1 As well as Marx’s published… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ecology, Karl Marx

Marx and race: a Eurocentric analysis?

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

There is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia.1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of… Continue Reading →

Article black nationalism, Karl Marx, Racism

Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis

Posted on 14th April 2018 by Camilla

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sketched what has come to be known as the gravedigger thesis, widely believed to propose that the objective conditions of capitalism would inevitably produce a revolutionary working class which would overthrow… Continue Reading →

Article Karl Marx, the working class

Marx’s politics

Posted on 13th April 2018 by Camilla

Marx’s return Karl Marx’s reputation has changed significantly in the 35 years since the ­centenary of his death in 1983. I wrote The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx to mark that anniversary against the background of the huge explosion of… Continue Reading →

Article First International, Karl Marx

Marx deflated

Posted on 7th October 2016 by Camilla

A review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Penguin, 2016), £35 In 1972 the Cambridge historian Gareth Stedman Jones wrote a foreword to the English edition of Werner Blumenberg’s useful biography of Karl Marx. Here he criticised… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Karl Marx

Marx’s research notebooks and globalisation

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

A review of Lucia Pradella, Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy: New Insights from Marx’s Writings (Routledge, 2014), £90 In this pioneering book Lucia Pradella examines Marx’s research notebooks that have been published for the first time in recent… Continue Reading →

Book reviews imperialism, Karl Marx

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