This review of China Miéville’s book on the Communist Manifesto was written for the Marxist group Platypus. I was asked due to my speech The 1848 Revolutions: An Anarchist Perspective. Suffice to say, more could have been written but that speech plus the few links I’ve added to the text should help flesh out the arguments made.
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Anarchism, Marxism and the lessons of the Commune
A discussion of the Paris Commune and its legacy from an anarchist perspective, indicating how it influenced both Anarchism and Marxism. It shows that anarchism alone has learnt its lessons and that Marxism, particularly in its Leninist form, paid lip-service to it while ignoring both its actual politics and its lessons.
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Markets, Marx and Mutualism
A review of Socialism After Hayek by Theodore A. Burczak, noting the apparent ignorance of libertarian socialism and so failing to discuss mutualism even though he approaches it.
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Review: Divide and Conquer or Divide and Subdivide?
A review of a pamphlet on the lessons of the First International written by Mark Leier whose excellent biography of Bakunin is recommended.
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And the Nobel prize for economics goes to… Karl Marx
A sort article on the 2006 (non-)Nobel prize for economists going to Edmund Phelps basically repeating what socialists had argued as regards the role of unemployment in capitalism since at least Karl Marx
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