marxism
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Study Guide For those applying to the School of Anti-Economics By S. Artesian
Varoufakis is playing a part in the recuperation, the re-composition of capitalism by the loyal pretend-opposition. He flaunts his ignorance of Marx as “Marxist economics” when in fact Marx’s work is the end of “economics,” as it was the end of “philosophy.” He thinks he, the minister to finance, embodies the prospects for an “enlightened… Continue reading
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Climate change: What would Frederick Engels say? By Martin O'Beirne
We had not yet destabilised the climate and trounced other planetary ecological boundaries back in 1876 when Frederick Engels wrote these passages in his unfinished The part played by labour in the transition from ape to man. But it is clear that back then Engels had established a biophilous ethic… Continue reading
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What’s New at Reading from the Left?
Reading from the Left is a non-commercial project to promote socialist pamphlets and books. It provides free chapters from Marxist books, and full texts of Marxist pamphlets, from a variety of publishers. Continue reading
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Book Review: In praise of Engels By Michael Fitzpatrick
Hunt provides a comprehensive account of Engels’ life and work. He gives him full credit for his important contribution to the emergence of Marxism, from his collaboration with Marx in The Communist Manifesto of 1848 to his contributions to Capital (including the laborious tasks of editing and publishing Volumes 2 and 3 after Marx’s death)… Continue reading
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Two New Pamphlets on Farming and Darwin
Around the world, farm income is plummeting, pushing farmers off the land and into destitution. Militant farmers and farmworkers are fighting back. Why Karl Marx described Darwin’s Origin of Species as “the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view.” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 