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Tag Archives: Marx
New biographies reflect Karl Marx’s todayness
We can learn a lot from the way Karl Marx is presented in contemporary biographies, even if the particular writer has his/her own ax to grind. This is certainly the case with the two recent widely reviewed works, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, by Mary Gabriel; and Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life, by Jonathan Sperber. Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Capital, Daily Show, dialectic, Eleanor Marx, Helene Demuth, Jenny Marx, Jonathan Sperber, Karl Marx, Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life, Laura Marx, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution, Marx, Mary Gabriel, positivism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Vera Zasulich
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Now off the press: The Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East by Raya Dunayevskaya
From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Now off the press: The Crossroads of History: Marxist-Humanist Writings on the Middle East by Raya Dunayevskaya Excerpts from the Foreword: Nobody, least of all Marxists, foresaw the great historic … Continue reading
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Tagged 1844 Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts of Karl Marx, anti-Semitism, Arab spring, Arab-Israeli conflict, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Bani-Sadr, Egypt, French Revolution, Iran, Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iraq, Israel, Israel/Palestine peace process, Israeli occupation of Palestine, Jordan, Karl Marx, Lebanese Civil War, Lebanon, Libya, Marx, Marxism, Marxist-Humanism, Middle East, Muammar Qaddafi, Palestine, philosophy of revolution, Raya Dunayevskaya, religious Right, revolution in permanence, Ronald Reagan, Russian Revolution of 1917, Sabra and Shatila, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tahrir Squares, V.I. Lenin, Zionism
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Post-election Venezuela
From the November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters Post-election Venezuela The reelection of Hugo Chávez as president is an important moment in Venezuela and Latin America as a whole. After more than a decade in power—during which his administration … Continue reading
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Tagged ALBA, anti-imperialism, Hugo Chavez, internationalism, Iran, Latin America, Marx, Marxism, Socialism, state capitalism, United States, Venezuela
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Nueva edición de revista Praxis en América Latina (octubre-noviembre 2012)
Nueva edición: revista Praxis en América Latina – teoría/practica http://www.praxisenamericalatina.org No. 9 octubre-noviembre 2012 Los números anteriores: # 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Desde México ● Lomas del Poleo: atrás de la violencia y … Continue reading
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Tagged Colombia, democracia, Eduardo Galeano, Gilberto López y Rivas, Guatemala, honduras, José Carlos Mariátegui, Karl Marx, la Otra Campaña, Marx, Marxism, Mexico, Political philosophy, Political Science, Raya Dunayevskaya, República Dominicana, Ruy Mauro Marini, Social Sciences, Zapatistas
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Situationists and Absolute Negativity
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Philosophic dialogue Situationists and Absolute Negativity It was good to have Ron Kelch’s Essay, “Absolute Negativity, Occupy and Situationists,” in the Jan.-Feb. News & Letters open an overdue philosophic dialogue. As … Continue reading
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Tagged absolute method, absolute negativity, Black masses as vanguard, dialectics, fetishism of commodities, freely associated labor, Guy Debord, Hegelian dialectic, Karl Marx, Marx, Marxist-Humanism, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Raya Dunayevskaya, revolution, Situationist International, Society of the Spectacle, Subjects of revolution, workers' councils
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Fanon and Marx
From the March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Fanon and Marx When Terry Moon in her column in the last issue asks, “How deep does the dialectic need to become when the subject is woman, is Black woman?” she … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, Black dimension, Black women, cultural nationalism, dialectic, Existentialism, Fanon, feminism, Frantz Fanon, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Marx, L Boogie, labor, Marx, Master/Slave dialectic, Negritude, objectification, racism, Sartre, sexism, sexual harassment, subject of revolution, Subject/Object dialectic, subjectivity, vanguardism, women's liberation
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István Mészáros and the Dialectic
From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: Essay István Mészáros and the Dialectic by Eugene Walker István Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness. Volume I, The Social Determination of Method. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010. Global depression … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute Idea, absolute negativity, Absolute Negativity as New Beginning, alienation, Critique of Hegelian Dialectic, dialectic, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel, István Mészáros, Karl Marx, Marx, Mészáros, negation, Occupy Wall Street, Raya Dunayevskaya, Science of Logic
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Women as thinkers and revolutionaries
From the new March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters: From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Women as thinkers and revolutionaries Editor’s Note: For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we print below brief excerpts from Raya Dunayevskaya’s 1975-76 … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, 1848 revolutions, 1919 German Revolution, Aba riots, Abolitionist movement, African Americans, Black history, Clara Zetkin, division of mental and manual labor, feminism, Flora Tristan, Frederick Douglass, Germany, Harriet Tubman, Hausa, Ibo, International Women's Day, Isabel do Carmo, Karl Marx, Marx, Nigeria, patriarchy, Portuguese Revolution, race, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Rosa Luxemburg, Russian Revolution of 1917, Seneca Falls 1848, sexism, Sojourner Truth, U.S. Civil War, Women's History Month, women's liberation, Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future, Women's Rights Convention, Working class women, Yoruba
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March-April 2012 News & Letters is online
The March-April 2012 issue of News & Letters is now online. News & Letters, Vol. 57, No. 2 March-April 2012 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Syrian revolution fights Assad’s genocide, world powers watch … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Andy Stern, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, China, Contraception, dialectic, fascism, feminism, Greece, István Mészáros, labor, Marx, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Movement, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, philosophy of revolution, Reproductive rights, Service Employees International Union, sexism, Syria, Syrian revolution, Tahrir Squares, women's liberation, workers
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Work of the Negative: A Marxist-Humanist blog 