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  • France

    The crisis of French Marxism

    18 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd

    This article was first published in English in "International Marxist Review" No 14, Winter 1992.

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  • On the state

    1980 - Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State

    12 July 2011, by Ernest Mandel

    “Historical materialism elevates the principle of the dialectical relationship between the particular and the general, which reveals the essence of phenomena, to the theoretical foundation of the dialectical understanding of history.”- Leo Kofler, Geschichte und Dialektik

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  • Daniel Bensaïd

    Strategy and Party

    5 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd

    This is based on the transcription of a talk Daniel Bensaïd gave at the Fourth International youth camp in Barbaste, France in July 2007. The subheadings have been added.

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  • Marxism

    The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg

    20 May 2011, by Michael Löwy

    In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses dialectically – the celebrated Aufhebung: negation/conservation/elevation – the preceding materialism and idealism, and formulates a new theory, which we could describe as the philosophy of praxis. While the French materialists of the eighteenth century insisted on the need to change material circumstances so that human beings could change, the German idealists affirmed that, thanks to the formation of a new consciousness of individuals, society would be changed.

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