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Africa's Pioneering Marxist Political Economist, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
Bond, Patrick
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2018
A look at the pioneering work of Egyptian-French Marxian economist Samir Amin, who died on August 12, 2018.
Anton Pannekoek
Mattick, Paul
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1960
Anton Pannekoek's life span coincided with what was almost the whole history of the modern labour movement; he experienced its rise as a movement of social protest, its transformation into a movement ...
Bebel, August: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat who was one of the founders of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. (1840-1913).
Benjamin, Walter: Connexipedia Article
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German-Jewish Marxist, literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. (1892-1940).
Berman, Marshall: Connexipedia Article
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American philosopher and Marxist Humanist writer. (Born 1940).
Grace Lee Boggs R.I.P.
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2015
Grace Lee Boggs, founding member of the Johnson-Forest Tendency (where her party name was Ria Stone), has died at the age of 100 in Detroit. She was born on June 27, 1915 and passed away October 5, 20...
Bordiga, Amadeo: Connexipedia Article
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Italian Marxist, contributor to Communist theory, founder of the Communist Party of Italy, leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, leading figure of the International Communist...
Brecht, Bertolt: Connexipedia Article
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German poet, playwright, theatre director, and radical. (1898-1956).
Bryant, Louise: Connexipedia Article
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American journalist and writer best known for her Marxist and anarchist beliefs and her essays on radical political and feminist themes. (1885-1936).
Cabral, Amílcar (Abel Djassi): Connexipedia Article
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African agronomic engineer, writer, Marxist and nationalist guerrilla and politician. (1924-1973).
Castoriadis, Cornelius: Connexipedia Article
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Greek-French philosopher, libertarian socialist, and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of Society, co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group and 'philosopher of autonomy'. (1...
C.L.R. James and Anti-/Postcolonialism: Against The Current vol. 90
Farred, Grant
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2001
C.L.R. James' proclamation in Beyond A Boundary (1963, a classic study of cricket and colonialism), after almost three decades of radical intellectual work, that “Thackeray, not Marx, bears the heavie...
De Leon, Daniel: Connexipedia Article
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American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
De Leon, Daniel: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
Debord, Guy: Connexipedia Article
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French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, hypergraphist and founding member of the groups Lettrist International and Situationist International. (1931-1994).
Deutscher, Isaac: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist historian, journalist and political activist. (1907-1967).
Diemer, Ulli: Connexipedia Article
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2010
Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
Dietzgen, Joseph: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist philosopher and Marxist. (1828-1888).
Draper, Hal: Connexipedia Article
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American socialist activist, Marxist and author of a number of key works about Marxism. (1914-1990).
Hal Draper, Introduction to: Connexipedia Article
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Link to brief biography of Hal Draper, an American socialist activist, Marxist and author, and participant in the Berkeley, California Free Speech Movement. (1914-1990).
Dunayevskaya, Raya: Connexipedia Article
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Founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism. (1910-1987).
Dutschke, Rudi: Connexipedia Article
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Prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s. (1940-1979).
Engels, Friedrich: Connexipedia Article
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German author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of communist theory, alongside Karl Marx. (1820-1895).
Farewell to Andres Nin
Serge, Victor
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1937
Farewell, my friend. Your great courageous life is left to us, full of work and action. Your terrible death is left to us as well. Like you, we must hold out to the bitter end so that socialism be fre...
Fromm, Erich: Connexipedia Article
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Internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. (1900-1980).
Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
Diemer, Ulli
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2018
Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
Glaberman, Martin: Connexipedia Article
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An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
Gorter, Herman: Connexipedia Article
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Dutch poet and socialist. (1864-1927).
Gorz, André: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist, social philosopher. (1923-2007).
Gramsci, Antonio: Connexipedia Article
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Italian Marxist philosopher, writer, politician and political theorist. (1891-1937).
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American Roman Catholic priest from New Mexico, and one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World. (Born 1862).
Hekmat, Mansoor: Connexipedia Article
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Iranian Marxist theorist and leader of the worker-communist movement. (1951-2002).
Hill, Christopher: Connexipedia Article
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English Marxist historian and author. (1912-2003).
James, C. L. R.: Connexipedia Article
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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
James, C.L.R.: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, Marxist, socialist theorist and essayist. (1901-1989).
Jaurès, Jean: Connexipedia Article
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French Socialist leader. (1859-1914).
Jogiches, Leo: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany. (1867-1919).
Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Revolutionary Marxism
Mattick, Paul
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1962
For Korsch, all the imperfections of Marx's revolutionary theory which, in retrospect, are explainable by the circumstances out of which it arose, do not alter the fact that Marxism remains superior t...
Karl Marx
Korsch, Karl
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1938
It is the purpose of this book to restate the most important principles and contents of Marx's social science in the light of recent historical events and of the new theoretical needs which have arise...
Karl Marx: The Story of His Life
Mehring, Franz
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1918
A biography of Karl Marx
Kautsky, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
Kautsky, Karl: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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German social democrat and a leading theoretician of Marxism. (1854-1938).
Korsch, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German Marxist theorist. (1886-1961).
Kovel, Joel: Connexipedia Article
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American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist. (Born 1936).
Lafargue, Paul: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist. (1842-1911).
The Legacy of CLR James
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2002
Facing Reality is an often maddening book containing a marvellous critique of the pretentiousness of the numerous little vanguards, and at other times a telling naivety about opposition forces in soci...
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
Geras, Norman
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2015
Norman Geras sets out to interrogate and refute the myths that have developed around Rosa Luxemburg's work.
Lenin
Lih, Lars T.
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2011
Leon, Abraham: Connexipedia Article
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Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. (1918-1944).
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
Luxemburg, Rosa (edited by Georg Adler, Peter Hudis, and Annelies Laschitza)
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1990
Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comp...
Liebknecht, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist, revolutionary, and a co-founder of the Spartacist League. (1871-1919).
Liebknecht, Wilhelm: Connexipedia Article
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German social democrat, one of the founders of the SPD. (1826-1900).
Longuet, Jenny: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist activist. Daughter of Jenny von Westphalen and Karl Marx. (1844-1883).
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
Gabriel, Mary
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2011
A biography of Karl and Jenny Marx.
Lukács, Georg: Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
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Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
Lukács, György: Connexipedia Article
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Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, literary critic, and socialist. (1885-1971).
Luxemburg, Rosa: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist revolutionary. (1871-1919).
Marcuse, Herbert: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist philosopher, political theorist and sociologist. (1898-1979).
Martin Glaberman: 1918 - 2001
Fettes, Neil
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2001
Marx, Eleanor: Connexipedia Article
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Socialist author and activist. (1855-1898).
Marx, Karl: Connexipedia Article
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German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist, and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism. (1818-1883).
A Marxian Oddity: A review of Marxiam and Freedom. From 1776 Unitl Today, by Raya Dunayevskaya
Mattick, Paul
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1958
Paul Mattick says although Raya Dunayevskaya’s interpretation of Marxian doctrine is occasionally true and eloquent, this book as a whole is a scatterbrained hodge-podge of philosophical, economic and...
The Marxism of Karl Korsch
Mattick, Paul
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1964
Mattick, Paul: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist writer and activist. (1904-1981).
Mehring, Franz: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist publicist, politician and historian. (1846-1919).
Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
Serge, Victor
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1943
Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary express...
Miliband, Ralph: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist political theorist and sociologist. (1924-1994).
My Life
Trotsky, Leon
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1930
Trotsky's autobiography, published in 1930.
On the anniversary of the birth of Erich Fromm
Dunayevskaya, Raya
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1980
The many articles that poured forth in 1980 when Erich Fromm died on March 18 all praised him only as a "famous psychoanalyst." The press, by no accident at all, failed to mention that he was a Social...
Pannekoek, Anton: Connexipedia Article
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Scientist and Marxist. (1873-1960).
The Radical Life of Rosa Luxemburg: A graphic novelization of the revolutionary life and legacy of "Red Rosa"
Evans, Kate
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2015
An excerpt from Red Rosa, a graphic biography of Rosa Luxemburg.
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Evans, Kate; Buhle, Paul
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2015
A giant of the political left, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the foremost minds in the canon of revolutionary socialist thought. Red Rosa gives Luxemburg her due as a radical and human being. In this beaut...
Reich, Wilhelm: Connexipedia Article
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Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. (1897-1957).
Remembering C.L.R. James: A review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography
Glaberman, Martin
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1998
Worcester's biography of James is both critical and yet sympathetic.
Rosa Luxemburg: Abridged Edition
Nettl, Peter
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1966
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
Rosa Luxemburg in Retrospect
Mattick, Paul
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1978
Mattick reconsiders the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, particularly her critique of Bolshevism and her economic theory.
Rosa Luxemburg: A Reappraisal
Basso, Lelio
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1975
Rowbotham, Sheila: Connexipedia Article
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British socialist feminist theorist and writer. (Born 1943).
Rühle, Otto: Connexipedia Article
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German Marxist. (1874-1943).
Serge, Victor: Connexipedia Article
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Writer and revolutionary. (1890-1947).
The Targeting of Walter Rodney: Against The Current vol. 120
West, Michael O.
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2006
On October 15, 1968 the government of Jamaica barred Walter Rodney from returning to the island. A lecturer at the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Rodney had been out of the co...
Leon Trotsky
Mattick, Paul
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1940
Trotsky's works, and most of all his History of the Russian Revolution, will immortalize his name as a writer and politician. But there is a real need to oppose the development of the Trotsky legend w...
Vaneigem, Raoul: Connexipedia Article
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Belgian writer and philosopher. (Born 1934).
Wood, Ellen Meiksins: Connexipedia Article
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Marxist scholar. (Born 1942).
Zasulich, Vera: Connexipedia Article
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Russian Marxist and revolutionary 1849-1919.
Zetkin, Clara: Connexipedia Article
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German socialist. (1857-1933).

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