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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2009, June 2009

Paul Blackledge: Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History.

Paul Blackledge Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History Manchester University Press, ......story ISBN: 9780719069572 (pbk) 13 [pounds sterling] This book is a welcome contribution to the body of literature devoted to the discussion of Marxist historiography. It is a rich text, very well ...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2005, March 2005

Christopher J. Arthur: the New Dialectic and Marx's Capital.

Christopher J. Arthur The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital Brill, Leiden, 2002, 263 pp. ISBN ...... This entails significant 'reconstruction' of Marx and Hegel, as Arthur acknowledges, although he ...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2007, June 2007

Value form and class struggle: a critique of the autonomist theory of value.

Introduction At the beginning of the 1970S, the reigning 'Ricardian' consensus within Marxist value theory started to fall apart. Upon its ...... This reappraisal of Marx's value theory eventually led to an energetic ...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2005, March 2005

Louis Althusser (edited by Francois Matheron, translated by G. M. Goshgarian): The Humanist Controversy and Other Writings.

... Althusser's epistemological approach was criticised, in that work, for its conflation of the 'empirical mode' of epistemological practice with the rather ...... This book is a collection of Louis Althusser's essays written after the publication of For Marx and Reading Capital, between June 1966 and July ...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2002, September 2002

From reflection to refraction: opening up open Marxism (1).

Introduction While it is true to say that the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) rejects any one distinctive school of Marxism, it is equally true to say that in recent years ...... Even though this approach in no ways represents the main theoretical perspective of the CSE, it has nevertheless made a number of important interventions in debates about Marxist theory within the CSE. Collectively known as '...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2009, June 2009

From Okishio to Marx through dialectics.

1. Introduction Marx's law of the tendential fall in the profit rate (...... It also provides the basis for a Marxist critique not only of neoliberalism but also of ...... No wonder Marx attached to it the greatest importance and no wonder it has been subjected to severe and negative assessments by Marx's critics. The recent debate on the law has ...

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Anarchist Studies - Vol. 15 Nbr. 2, July 2007

Anarchist Theory: What Should Be Done?

Anarchism shares with Marxism a preoccupation with classic theorists - for Marx and Engels substitute Bakunin and Kropotkin - but anarchism has never had anything like the scholarly attention or intellectual commitment inspired by Marxism. Activist groups occasionally have adopted an extreme ethos of egalitarianism, making the assumption that everyone can develop the full range of skills needed in the group, everything from organising events, dealing with disputes and public speaking.

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2006, March 2006

A value-oriented distinction between productive and unproductive labour.

... Nevertheless, this importance is paralleled by a continuing controversy over the definition and delimitation of the concept of productive labour in Marxian literature. This can be traced back to the ...

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Capital & Class - Nbr. 2007, June 2007

Formal and real subordination and the contemporary proletariat: re-coupling Marxist class theory and labour-process analysis.

Introduction Traditionally, Marxist class theory defines the proletariat as 'the ...... In the 1970s, neo-Marxist scholars became particularly concerned with the ...... Erik Olin Wright's concept of 'contradictory class locations' became the mainstream neo-Marxist solution. While the original formulation drew ...