Tag: Marxism
If there are two contemporary anarchist theorists whose work occupies and influences my thought the most, they are Kevin Carson and Wayne Price. Carson has spent a huge segment of his career not just reconstructing a mutualist political economy as an alternative to the anarchist default to the economics of Karl Marx but also making…
Ben Burgis and the Analytical Marxist Critique of Dialectics The title of this essay recalls the Congressional hearing that took place on December 5, 2023, in which Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, seemed to dodge difficult questions by uttering the phrase “it depends on the context.” The phrase immediately became meme-able, even the…
De Frank Miroslav. Artígo original: Transhumanism and Egoism, publicado originalmente em 16 de Março, 2022. Traduzido para o porguguês por Nico. Esse texto é parte do C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium on Anarchism and Egoism Fui convocado para dar uma perspectiva transhumanista sobre egoísmo. Acredito que seja uma crítica bastante simples então pretendo usar a maior…
One of the main obstacles for a libertarian, even left-libertarian, appreciation of Marxian analysis is the assumption that it necessarily denies any role for the individual to play in both material struggle and general social analysis, leaving that entirely to mass class concepts like the proletariat, lumpenproletariat, bourgeoisie, etc. In contrast, libertarians right and left…
For the (very delayed) 23rd installment of The Enragés, host Eric Fleischmann was joined by Ryan Neugebauer to discuss Ryan’s article Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective (https://c4ss.org/content/56583). Ryan is a left-libertarian committed to the dialectical libertarian framework put forth by Chris Matthew Sciabarra, defending individual freedom & flourishing through the art…
David Harvey. A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse (London and New York: Verso, 2023). David Harvey may be familiar to some from his background as a Marxist geographer focusing on neoliberalism and uneven development, or for his development of Henri Lefebvre’s “Right to the City” concept. The Grundrisse itself amounts, more or less, to a voluminous…
Oleh: Frank Miroslav. Teks aslinya berjudul “Transhumanism and Egoism.” Diterjemahkan ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Ameyuri Ringo. Esai ini juga merupakan bagian dari C4SS Mutual Exchange Symposium on Anarchism and Egoism Saya telah diminta untuk memberikan perspektif transhumanis tentang egoisme. Saya pikir ini adalah kritik yang cukup sederhana jadi saya akan menghabiskan sebagian besar bagian…
Market anarchism, as defined by Center for a Stateless Society, is the “advocacy of replacing the state with civil society while pointing to free market economics to explain the workability and/or desirability of such.” This ideology has very rarely if ever supported a sizable movement on its own and instead has, according to Charles Johnson…
Par William Gillis. Article original : Anti-Engels (or Anti-Anti-Duhring Aktion), 5 novembre 2021. Traduction français par Leuk. Ces dernières années ont vue la résurrection d’une scolastique marxisante de Grand Homme de l’Histoire qui se concentre sur certains Textes Fondamentaux (accessibles) de prétendus génies, et qui rejette tous les trucs compliqués qui sont arrivés depuis leur publication,…
Por Frank Miroslav. Artículo original publicado el 16 de marzo de 2022 con el título Transhumanism and Egoism. Traducción al español por Vince Cerberus. He sido llamado a dar una perspectiva transhumanista sobre el egoísmo. Creo que esta es una crítica bastante simple, así que voy a dedicar gran parte de este artículo a hablar sobre por…
Eric Fleischmann. Artículo original: Materialism and Thick Libertarianism, del 2 de agosto de 2022. Traducción al español de Camila Figueroa. Hace dos años hice una presentación titulada “Prerrequisitos para la libertad: Una perspectiva anarquista individualista” a un grupo de discusión de filosofía, en la que hablé de la conexión entre el libertarianismo grueso y el…
Di Eric Fleischmann. Originale: Materialism and Thick LIbertarianism, del 2 agosto 2022. Tradotto da Enrico Sanna. Due anni fa illustrai ad un gruppo di discussione di filosofia una relazione dal titolo “Prerequisiti della libertà nell’ottica anarco-individualista”, in cui parlando del nesso tra libertarismo grosso e anarco-individualismo nordamericano ottocentesco spiegavo come, per giungere ad un sincero…
Two years ago, I gave a presentation titled “Prerequisites for Freedom: An Individualist Anarchist Perspective” to a philosophy discussion group, in which I talked about the connection between thick libertarianism and 19th century North American individualist anarchism and how progressive and liberatory values are necessary for genuine and necessarily anti-capitalist individualism. For the uninitiated, the…
Di Eric Fleischmann. Originale pubblicato il 9 giugno 2022 con il titolo Laurance Labadie’s “Marxian Socialism”. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. Il socialismo può essere interpretato in parte come l’eterna aspirazione, l’eterna fede dell’uomo in un futuro migliore. L’atteggiamento dogmatico e presuntuoso bolla il socialismo come antiscientifico. Nell’interpretare materialisticamente la storia, il socialismo esagera l’importanza…
De Dawie Coetzee. Artículo original publicado el 13 de mayo de 2022 con título Taking Collectivity Apart. Traducción al español por Camila Figueroa. Hay una expresión en afrikáans, om die dam onder die eend uit te ruk. Traducida literalmente, significa “sacar el estanque de debajo del pato”, llevar una cosa tan lejos que empieza a…
De Eric Fleischmann. Artículo original: Marx, Conflict and Cooperatives, del 21 de diciembre de 2021. Traducido al español por Vince Cerberus. Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels discuten en El Manifiesto Comunista que “[l]a historia de toda la sociedad existente hasta ahora es la historia de las luchas de clases. Hombres libres y esclavos, patricios y plebeyos, señores y…
Marxian Socialism Socialism can be explained partially by man’s eternal desire and faith in a better life to come [1]. The very attitude of dogmatism and cock-sureness brands Socialism as unscientific. The socialists hold an exaggerated idea of the importance of economics in the materialistic interpretation of history. They hold the incorrect labor-cost theory of…
There is an expression in Afrikaans, om die dam onder die eend uit te ruk. Translated literally, it means “to pluck the pond out from under the duck,” to take a thing so far that it begins to miss its own point. The expression springs to mind because an obsession with groups of people literally…
Di Frank Miroslav. Originale pubblicato il 2 aprile 2022 con il titolo Why Collective Action Problems Are Not a Capitalist Plot. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Perché dalla ragione individuale a quella collettiva non è un passo Un vecchio chiodo fisso dell’estrema sinistra è che l’assenza di attività radicali è colpa di qualche soggetto collettivo che,…
Frank Miroslav. Article original: Why Collective Action Problems Are Not a Capitalist Plot. Traduction française par anonyme. Sur l’importance de passer de la rationalité individuelle à la rationalité collective Un incontournable de la gauche radicale est de blâmer l’absence d’activité radicale, par un sujet collectif particulier perçu comme ayant un potentiel, sur quelques subterfuges capitalistes….
