Marx and Intellectuals
Marx did not write a systematic treatise on intellectuals, and when he did comment on members of the intelligentsia he tended to use the phrase ‘educated people’, or, if in a more scornful mood, ‘literati’ to describe them …Read more here
Practical Materialism: Engels’s Anti-Dühring as Marxist Philosophy
Frederick Engels’s Anti-Dühring was the most important theoretical response to the emerging reformist tendencies within European socialism in the nineteenth century. It also proved to be Engels’s most influential, and controversial work…Read more here.
Karl Kautsky and Marxist Historiography
After an inauspicious early encounter with Marx, when the older man described his young epigone as a pedant, Karl Kautsky’s reputation as a Marxist theoretician rose to a peak in the first decade of the last century…Read more here.
The Dialectics of Work and Leisure in Marx, Lukács and Lefebvre
Beyond a few pregnant paragraphs, neither Marx nor Engels wrote anything of substance on the concept of leisure. Nonetheless, their oeuvre is far from irrelevant to the subject. On the contrary, Marx …Read more here.
Lenin: the dialectic of democracy and dictatorship
So much has the term democracy been reduced to its liberal democratic form within contemporary theory that the phrase “Marxist democracy” is all too often dismissed as an “oxymoron”. …Read more here.
Results and Prospects: Trotsky and his Critics
Despite being widely referred to by his interlocutors, it is a peculiarity of Trotsky’s theory of uneven and combined development that it has received little by way of systematic consideration in the century since its first formulation in 1906. The initial lack of impact of Trotsky’s thesis can largely be explained by the combined consequences of censorship alongside an unfortunately timed publication…Read more here.