Cuadernos de Pasado y Presente

Series · 14

books · 1886-2002

By John Askew, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Marx, and more

Books in series

Preface and Introduction to a Contribution to the Critque of Political Economy

1968

Umberto La crítica marxiana de la economía política en la Einleitung / Karl Introducción general a la crítica de la economía política de 1857 / Karl Marx y Friedrich Textos sobre problemas de método de la economía política.

#13

The Mass Strike

1906

La revolución rusa, que tiene sus comienzos en enero de 1905, sorprende a Rosa Luxemburgo en Alemania. Durante todo este año Rosa Luxemburgo se dedica a hacer comprender a los socialistas alemanes el significado de aquellos acontecimientos revolucionarios. En diciembre de 1905 decide partir para Varsovia para participar directamente, junto a sus camaradas de la socialdemocracia polaca, en los acontecimientos revolucionarios que conmovían el Imperio zarista. Fruto de esta experiencia es su libro Huelga de masas, partido y sindicatos, en el que elabora su doctrina de la huelga de masas. Para Rosa Luxemburgo la huelga de masas,, experimentada en una escala gigantesca, en esta primera revolución rusa, tenía el mérito indiscutible de llenar el vacío teórico que el fracaso de la Comuna de París y la crítica de Engels al insurreccionalismo (en su introducción al libro de Marx Las luchas de clases en Francia) habían creado en la concepción revolucionaria. Para ella la huelga de masas no es una simple «táctica» que debe ser utilizada por el proletariado para defender sus conquistas, sino, por el contrario, un elemento central de la «estrategia revolucionaria». Frente a la negación kautskiana de la insurrección y frente al blanquismo preconizado por los teóricos de la revolución de minorías, Rosa Luxemburgo preconiza lo que ella denomina una «estrategia de derrocamiento», basada en la práctica sistemática de la huelga de masas.

#20

Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations

1965

These notes of 1857-58 are now for the first time translated into English. They throw a flood light on Marx's mature views concerning the economic development of human society as a whole, from "primitive communism" to capitalism and socialism. The notes deal particularly with the epochs of historic development and their evolutionary stages, which for some time has been a subject of controversy among Marxist historians. Dr. Eric J. Hobsbawm provides a full explanatory introduction, and additional texts are included from German Ideology and the Correspondence.

#21

Imperialism and World Economy

1917

Bukharin’s 1919 anticipation of the growth of the internationalization of capital.

#31

Historical Materialism

A System of Sociology

1921

This classic volume contains Nikolai Bukharin's 1928 treatise, "Historical Materialism". Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (1888-1938) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and author. Bukharin was an important Bolshevik revolutionary, and spent six years with Lenin and Trotsky in exile. He wrote prolifically on the subject of revolutionary theory. This book will appeal to those with an interest in the Russian Revolution, and would make for a fantastic addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "The Practical Importance of the Social Sciences", "Cause and Purpose in the Social Sciences (Causation and Teleology", "Determinism and Indeterminism (Necessity and Free Will)", "Dialectic Materialism", "Society", "The Equilibrium Between Society and Nature", "The Equilibrium Between the Elements of Society", etc. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

#35

Einführung in die Nationalökonomie

1925

Das durch ihren Tod unvollständig gebliebene Manuskript wurde erst 1925 publiziert. Durch eine wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Betrachtung versucht die Autorin in sechs Kapiteln das Wesen des Kapitalismus zu ergründen. Bemerkenswerterweise können ihre damaligen Gedankengänge uns heute für die Analyse der neoliberalen Durchdringung jedes Lebensbereiches dienlich sein. Diese E-Book-Ausgabe ist für wissenschaftliches Arbeiten geeignet. Sie ist seitengetreue erfasst nach der von Paul Levi posthum 1925 in Berlin herausgegebenen Auflage und zitierfähig.

#37

On Colonialism

1973

In the articles collected in this volume Karl Marx and Frederick Engels deal with the history of colonialism and provide a Marxist analysis of the economic causes colonial policy. Most of these articles were written in the 1850s when mighty anti-colonialist movements developed in Asia.

#42

Lenin as Philosopher

1938

First published in 1938 by a leader of the Council Communism movement, Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as Philospher offers a classic left-wing interpretation and critique of Lenin's philosophical accomplishment and its relationship to the development of Leninism as perhaps the dominant political theory of the twentieth century. Providing a detailed discussion of the philosophical background to the Machist controversy which occasioned Lenin's Materialism and Empirio criticism, Pannekoek's study still stands as one of the most forceful and politically astute discussions of the topic available. Published here for the first time in an annotated and scholarly edition, this masterpiece of Marxist criticism is accompanied by a lengthy new introduction expanding and assessing Pannekoek's discussion and arguing for the continuing relevance of Lenin's thought for Marxism in the new millennium.

#53

Essays on Marx's Theory Of Value

1923

Political economy, defined in the study of social relations and culture. Originally published in the former Soviet Union, was suppressed and after 1928 it was never re-issued. This is the first English-language edition. Includes an outstanding introductory essay on "Commodity Fetishism" by Freddy Perlman.

#57

Economic Theory of the Leisure Class

1970

Bukharin completed this work in 1914; it represented an attempt to grapple with the Austrian School of political economy, as represented chiefly by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk. Bukharin interprets the school as reflecting the social position of the rentier stratum of the capitalist class, which tends to view the economy from the point of view of consumption rather than production. But this is merely the introduction to a close consideration of the theory of marginal utility as contrasted with the labor theory of value which formed the starting point of both Marxism and classical economics. His discussion, therefore, while it does not deal with the many changes and refinements of neoclassical economics, does contrast, in polemical form, Marxism with the fundamental premises of modern academic economics. His discussion of "subjective" and "objective" value definitions, in particular, will help clarify for many the essential differences that distinguish Marxist political economy from other schools.

#58

Ethics and the Materialist Conception of History

2002

From the preface: "The materialist conception of history is not only important because it allows us to explain history better than has been done up to now, but also because it enables us to make history better than has been hitherto done. And the latter is more important than the former. From the progress of the practice our theoretical knowledge grows and in the progress of the practice our theoretical progress is proved. No world-conception has been in so high a degree a philosophy of deeds as the dialectical materialism. Not only upon research but upon deeds do we rely to show the superiority of our philosophy. " Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), compiler of Karl Marx's Theories of Surplus Value (1905-10), has been rightly considered the successor of Engels in the intellectual leadership of the Marxian School. Kautsky was the founder of Die Neue Zeit and a political leader of the German Social Democrats. He denounced both Germany's aggression in World War I as well as the conduct of Russian Bolshevism after the 1917 Revolution. This book was originally published in 1906.

#59

Ludwig Feuerbach And the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy

1886

On the philosophy of Hegel and Feuerbach, and the essence and tasks of philosophy.

#70

History of Bolshevism from Marx to the First Five Years' Plan

1932

1932 yılında Almanya’da yayınlanan ancak hemen ardından Naziler tarafından yasaklanan Bolşevizm Tarihi bugün artık bir klasik… Bolşevik düşüncenin bizzat Karl Marx’taki köklerinden Lenin’in farklı aşamaları üzerinden, Stalin’in 1932′deki taktiğine ve teorisine gelişiminin tarihine odaklanan bir çalışma olması dolayısıyla oldukça önemli… Büyük Rus Devrimi’nin gölgesi hala dünya işçilerinin küçük bir bölümünü kendine çekmeyi sürdürüyor. Komünist Enternasyonal’in, dünya proletaryasının aktif hareketi üzerinde artık herhangi bir etkisi yok. Ancak Bolşevikler’in Rus Devrimi esnasında başardıkları, ölümsüz bir tarihi eylem olmayı sürdürüyor.

#81

The National Question

Selected Writings by Rosa Luxemburg (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles)

1976

Provocative writings on the question of national self-determination and its relationship with socialism.

Authors

Karl Marx, Ph.D. (University of Jena, 1841) was a social scientist who was a key contributor to the development of Communist theory. Marx was born in Trier, a city then in the Kingdom of Prussia's Province of the Lower Rhine. His father, born Jewish, converted to Protestantism shortly before Karl's birth in response to a prohibition newly introduced into the Rhineland by the Prussian Kingdom on Jews practicing law. Educated at the Universities of Bonn, Jena, and Berlin, Marx founded the Socialist newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. After being expelled from France at the urging of the Prussian government, which "banished" Marx in absentia, Marx studied economics in Brussels. He and Engels founded the Communist League in 1847 and published the Communist Manifesto. After the failed revolution of 1848 in Germany, in which Marx participated, he eventually wound up in London. Marx worked as foreign correspondent for several U.S. publications. His Das Kapital came out in three volumes (1867, 1885 and 1894). Marx organized the International and helped found the Social Democratic Party of Germany. Although Marx was not religious, Bertrand Russell later remarked, "His belief that there is a cosmic force called Dialectical Materialism which governs human history independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" (Portraits from Memory, 1956). Marx once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist" (according to Engels in a letter to C. Schmidt; see Who's Who in Hell by Warren Allen Smith). D. 1883. Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Hegel's Philosophy of Religion in 1840. Marx was also engaged in writing his doctoral thesis, The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature, which he completed in 1841. It was described as "a daring and original piece of work in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom of philosophy": the essay was controversial, particularly among the conservative professors at the University of Berlin. Marx decided, instead, to submit his thesis to the more liberal University of Jena, whose faculty awarded him his PhD in April 1841. As Marx and Bauer were both atheists, in March 1841 they began plans for a journal entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), but it never came to fruition. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history. Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl\_Marx http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/ http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi... http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/... http://www.historyguide.org/intellect... http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic... http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/... http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...

Dutch astronomer and marxist theorist. He was one of the main theorists of council communism. As a recognized Marxist theorist, Pannekoek was one of the founders of the council communist tendency and a main figure in the radical left in the Netherlands and Germany. In his scientific work, Pannekoek started studying the distribution of stars through the Milky Way, as well as the structure of our galaxy. Later he became interested in the nature and evolution of stars. Because of these studies, he is considered to be the founder of astrophysics as a separate discipline in the Netherlands. The Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam, of which he had been a director, still carries his name.

Isaak Illich Rubin

Author · 2 books

(Russian: Исаа́к Ильи́ч Ру́бин) was a Jewish economist and is considered to be the most important theorist of his time on the field of Karl Marx's theory of value. His main work Essays on Marx's Theory of Value was published in 1924. He was executed in 1937 during the course of the Great Purge, but his ideas have since been rehabilitated.

Friedrich Engels

Author · 23 books