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Ernest Mandel - Selected Works
Ernest Mandel, Belgian Trotskyist and acclaimed Marxist economist, long term leader of the Fourth International, published a large body of work across his lifetime. While many of his books are still in print we aim to publish here some of his shorter works, often not available elsewhere.
Ernest Mandel reminds us that Marxism drew from its very inception on the advances of all the social sciences and emancipation movements of its time.
The general historical context
The fundamental characteristics of Marxism
Marxism’s transformation of the social sciences - a)
Marxism’s transformation of the social sciences - b)
Marxism’s transformation of the social sciences - c)
The supersession of utopian socialism
The proletarian transformation of revolutionary activity and organisation
The fusion of the real workers movement and scientific socialism
The personal itinerary of Marx and Engels
The reception and diffusion of Marxism throughout the world
Appendices
Glossary of people and things
The Leninist theory of organisation represents, broadly speaking, the deepening of Marxism, applied to the basic problems of the social superstructure.
Introduction
Bourgeois ideology and proletarian class consciousness
Proletarian class struggle and proletarian class consciousness
The revolutionary vanguard and spontaneous mass action
Organisation, bureaucracy and revolutionary action
Organisational theory, revolutionary program, revolutionary practice
Organisational theory, democratic centralism and soviet democracy
Sociology of economism, bureaucratism and spontaneity
Scientific intelligentsia, social science and proletarian class consciousness
Historical pedagogy and communication of class consciousness
The decision to found the Fourth International was taken as early as 1933, with the Comintern’s final demise as a revolutionary organisation, in the same way as Lenin’s call for the Third International was made as early as 1914 when the Social Democratic parties capitulated.
Conjuncture and structure
The basic contradictions of our epoch
There is no perspective for capitalism
Only the working class is capable of overthrowing capitalism and establishing a socialist world
Without anti-capitalist theory and practice no anti-capitalist victory is possible
The bureaucracy cannot introduce institutionalised socialist democracy
Extent and limits of the new revolutionary gains
Extent and limits of the recomposition of the workers’ movement
The challenge of internationalisation
Without international theory, practice and organisation there will be no building of the World Socialist Federation
The term ‘communism’ was first used in modern times to designate a specific economic doctrine (or regime), and a political creed intending to introduce such a regime, by the French lawyer Etiénne Cabet in the late 1830s.
Communism
"Marx is distinct from most important economists of the 19th and 20th centuries - for Marx, there are no economic laws separate and apart from specific relations between human beings."
Life and Work
Historical Materialism
Marx’s Economic Theory - General approach and influence
Marx’s Labour Theory of Value
Marx’s Theory of Rent
Marx’s Theory of Money
Marx’s Theory of Surplus Value
The Laws of Motion of the Capitalist Mode of Production
Marx’s Theory of Crises
Marx and Engels on the Economy of Post-Capitalist Societies
"If we look at the problem of World War II from a more dialectical, more correct Leninist point of view, we have to say that it was a very complicated business indeed."
Trotskyists and the Resistance in World War Two
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Ernest Mandel - Selected Works
Ernest Mandel, Belgian Trotskyist and acclaimed Marxist economist, long term leader of the Fourth International, published a large body of work across his lifetime. While many of his books are still in print we aim to publish here some of his shorter works, often not available elsewhere. |
