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Oct 14, 2020 · Karl Marx celebrated liberalism’s achievements, such as freedom of the press, while excoriating its fidelity to private property rights. We can hold the same tension in our minds — fiercely opposing capitalism while fighting to make liberal rights real through socialist transformation.
Karl Marx and the United States is a subject which immediately elicits interest, but also surprise. Interest, because of its contemporary importance; surprise, because Marx and America have appeared so remote from one another.
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“Marxism is a theory of liberation or it is nothing” Dunayevskaya held in Marxism and Freedom. Concerned with the freedom of humanity and the destruction of human life under capitalism, one aim of Marxism and Freedomwas to, Prefiguring what is now called intersectionality, she highlighted “new passions and new forces” that emerged in freedom strugg...
All this was exciting to me as a 21-year-old who had already become cynical about programmatic socialist groups that often viewed movements as fodder to be mobilised. I probably didn’t understand it fully at the time, but I remember meeting Dunayevskaya in 1985 just after the year-long British miners strike had suffered an historic defeat. When we ...
Marxism and Freedomremains alive to me in 2019. It’s not only because we live in an age of myriad crises that threaten humanity, but the book reminds humanity to keep our ears and minds open to new and often unthinkable revolts. In this moment of violent suppression, new forms of struggle continuously emerge and reach for a future. It is here that ...
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In American Marxism, commentator and best-selling author, Mark Levin, persuasively argues that stealth Marxism is besieging America. The label Marxism may not be used, but the philosophical ideas and social programs betray their pedigree. Since Marxism is antithetical to all that is great about America—limited government, natural
Nov 14, 2018 · Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential Marxism offers a radical philosophical foundation for today’s revitalized critiques of capitalism.
Marxism, Freedom and the State is an abridged compilation of essays by Russian revolutionary, anarchist, and philosopher Mikhail Bakunin. It was edited and translated by Kenneth Kenafick. Freedom Press published the book in 1950. [1]
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Marxist analyses of contemporary politics and culture soon led to great success and the further circulation of Marxist ideas that has prompted some to speak of a Marxist revival (see Goldberg). Indeed, according to a 2016 poll 51 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 reject capitalism (see Ehrenfreund). This came at a
