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Debemos soñar - Anticipación y esperanza como categorías del materialismo histórico

10 September 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

Este texto fue la contribución de Ernest Mandel a un coloquio conmemorativo de 1978 para el filósofo marxista Ernst Bloch (1885 - 1977) y se publicó por primera vez en 1980.^i<

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1978: Ernest Mandel - We Must Dream. Anticipation and hope as categories of historical materialism

9 September 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

The headstone of Ernest Bloch. Source: Wiki Commons

This text was the contribution of Ernest Mandel to a 1978 commemorative colloquium for the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885 – 1977) and was first published in 1980.ⁱ In this article Mandel uses categories developed by Bloch, such as the Not-Yet and Real Possible, to examine the need of incorporating notions of the future in socialist thought.

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1978: Ernest Mandel - Rosa Luxemburg and political economy

12 July 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

In this article, originally published as the preface to Luxemburg's 'Introduction à l’economie politique', Mandel surveys Rosa Luxemburg's contributions to political economy.

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1987: Ernest Mandel - The rise of fascism and the united front

8 July 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

(1930, uniformed members of the Reichsbanner, the defense organisation associated with the German SPD)

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1978: Ernest Mandel - Spinoza, thinker of bourgeois freedom

29 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

How democratic was the political thought of Spinoza? Mandel argues that to understand the seeming contradictions in Spinoza, we must place him in the historical context of early capitalism and an emerging bourgeoisie.

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1980: Ernest Mandel on the class nature of the capitalist state

23 June 2020

Originally titled 'Methodological problems in defining the class nature of the bourgeois state', this article is simultaneously an example Mandel's 'historical-genetic' analysis of social phenomena and the outline of an analysis of the capitalist state.

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1973: Ernest Mandel on Marxism and ecology, 'The dialectic of growth'

16 June 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

Ernst Mandel meeting Hugo Blanco (on the right)

An early example of applying Marxist critique to ecological issues, in reply to the famous 'Limits to Growth' report.

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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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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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