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1972: Ernest Mandel on 'The Driving Forces of Imperialism'

10 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

In this paper Mandel argues that the theory of imperialism as developed by Hilferding and Lenin can be applied to explain the shift from direct colonialism to neo-colonialism and the changing composition of the bourgeoisie in dominated countries.

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1968: Debat Ernest Mandel & Joop den Uyl

9 June 2020

In 1968 nam de linkse studentenorganisatie Politeia het plan op om, in hun woorden, ''twee belangrijke vertegenwoordigers van respectievelijk de sociaal-democratie en het Marxisme in een openbaar debat de degens te laten kruisen'''. Deze vertegenwoordigers waren respectievelijk de toekomstige premier Joop den Uyl, en Ernest Mandel. Het was niet de eerste keer dat de twee in debat gingen; negen jaar eerder organiseerde dezelfde studentenvereniging een discussie tussen Mandel en Den Uyl over ''De betekenis van het marxisme voor de socialistische theorie''.

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1971: Ernest Mandel on 'The dialectic of nation and class struggle'

18 May 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

The Marxist view on the question maintains that the nation is the product of the struggle of a specific class, namely the modern bourgeoisie, the first class in history to give birth to a nation.

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1983: Ernest Mandel on 'Emancipation, science and politics in Karl Marx'

11 May 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

In this newly translated essay Mandel discusses a Marxist conception of progress, and how it is linked to the struggle for emancipation.

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1970: Ernest Mandel on how 'Althusser corrects Marx'

6 May 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

Written during 1969, this essay criticizes Althusser’s interpretation of the ‘mature’ Marx as breaking with the influence of Hegel and with the concept of alienation. Without denying the discontinuity in Marx’s thinking, Mandel thought Marx based his analysis on a materialist interpretation of Hegel’s dialectic. Mandel argued that rather than abandoning the notion of alienation, Marx changed this concept from an anthropological to a historical, materialist one. A ‘call to revolutionary action by the proletariat’ replaced a ‘philosophical conclusion on the plane of thoughts, ideas, intellectual work’. Althusser however had transformed Marxism into something ‘static’, without understanding that its basis is ‘the historically perishable nature of all ‘structures’’. Writing in the aftermath of May 68, this was a discussion that for Mandel had direct political implications.

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1985: Ernest Mandel on the necessity and possibility of socialism

29 April 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

This July, it will be twenty-five years since Ernest Mandel passed away. A life-long socialist thinker and activist, Mandel played a crucial role in founding the IIRE. During the coming months, we will publish on our website texts by Mandel that were previously unavailable online. In the following essay from 1985, Mandel summarized his view on what socialism means, and why it is possible.

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