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On the occasion of Karl Marx's 200th birthday this year, numerous conferences, edited volumes and special issues have celebrated his work by focusing on its main achievements – a radical critique of capitalist society and an alternative vocabulary for thinking about the social, economic and political tendencies and struggles of our age. Albeit often illuminating, this has also produced a certain amount of déjà vu. Providing an occasion to disrupt patterns of repetition and musealization, Krisis (http://krisis.eu/) proposes a different way to pay tribute to Marx's revolutionary theorizing. We have invited authors from around the globe to craft short entries for an alternative ABC under the title " Marx from the Margins: A Collective Project, from A to Z " – taking up, and giving a twist to, Kevin Anderson's influential Marx at the Margins (2010). The chief motivation of this collaborative endeavour is to probe the power – including the generative failures – of Marx's thinking by starting from marginal concepts in his work or from social realities or theoretical challenges often considered to be marginal from a Marxist perspective. Rather than reproduce historically and theoretically inadequate differentiations between an ascribed or prescribed cultural , economic, geographic, intellectual, political, social, or spatial centre and its margins, the margins we have identified and inspected are epistemic vantage points that open up new theoretical and political vistas while keeping Marx's thought from becoming either an all-purpose intellectual token employed with little risk from left or right, or a set of formulaic certitudes that force-feed dead dogma to ever-shrinking political circles. We have welcomed short and succinct contributions that discuss how a wide variety of concepts – from acid communism and big data via extractivism and the Haitian Revolution to whiteness and the Zapatistas – can offer an unexpected key to the significance of Marx's thought today. The resulting ABC, far from a comprehensive compendium, is an open-ended and genuinely collective project that resonates between and amplifies through different voices speaking from different perspectives in different styles; we envisage it as a beginning rather than as an end. In this spirit, we invite readers to submit new entries to Krisis, where they will be subject to our usual editorial review process and added on a regular basis, thus making this issue of Krisis its first truly interactive one. The project is also an attempt to redeem, in part, the task that the name of this journal has set for its multiple generations of editors from the very beginning: a crisis/Krise/Krisis is always a moment in which certainties are suspended, things are at stake, and times are experienced as critical. A crisis, to which critique is internally linked, compels a critique that cannot consist simply of ready-made solutions pulled out of the lectern, but demand, in the words of Marx's " credo of our journal " in his letter to Ruge, " the self-clarification (critical philosophy) of the struggles and wishes of the age " .

This book arose out of a desire to challenge entrenched attitudes. For many people, Marxism is purely and simply the enemy of democracy, as illustrated by communist tyrannies the world over. For others, however, Marxism represents the highest achievement of democratic thought, whose grand ambitions were betrayed by those very same tyrannies, and only a malevolent Cold Warrior would argue otherwise. The aim of the present study is to show why the truth is much more complex than either side would allow.

Economic and Political Weekly, 2012

10. Марксизъм (допълнителни материали за курсова работа по "Икономически учения")

To be Marxist at the turn of the twentieth century was highly contested. During this crisis of Marxism, identity politics were acute, exemplified by the private and public debate between Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky. With Bernstein’s celebrated turn away from the Marxist theory of his day, the grounds for being Marxist were at stake. Was it possible to criticise Marx’s analysis of industrial capitalism, his account of historical change and his hard-nosed class politics, and yet still be in a position to carry his name forward? Moreover, the springing-up of another identity, Revisionist, suggested that being Marxist was ambiguous. If one accepted Bernstein’s and the Revisionists’ point that Marxists had become too orthodox, leaving Revisionists as the true heirs of Marx’s critical socialist spirit, then the Marxist identity was so open as to be meaningless. In this article, I contend that the name-calling of this period, the Revisionismusstreit, should be seen as creative. In contrast to politico-ideological perceptions of the Streit, which construe the clash of Marxist and Revisionist as representative of foundational Social Democratic party political realities, I highlight the manner in which being Marxist—the veneration of Marx’s and Friedrich Engels’s word into a Marxology of sorts by Marxists and Revisionists alike—held a certain epistemic value in its own right.

The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this dassic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors oHer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and post..:colonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first edition , and an exacting transcription of the earliest, and rare, English translation by Helen Macfarlane (1850).

This is the syllabus (with a set of essays to introduce the weekly readings) for a course I taught at Harvard in the Fall Semester of 1998.