Marxisme

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• Quand Paul Mattick reprend les erreurs d’Anton Pannekoek, interprétant la relation entre marxisme et physique moderne, contre Lénine et… Engels, et aussi contre la science elle-même
  21 février 2021, par Robert Paris

  Quand Paul Mattick reprend les erreurs d’Anton Pannekoek, interprétant la relation entre marxisme et physique moderne, contre Lénine et… Engels, et aussi contre la science elle-même
  A la suite de Pannekoek, qui lui-même prenait la suite de Mach, Mattick affirme que le marxisme de Marx n’est pas dialectique au sens de Hegel, qu’il doit s’accommoder avec une version dualiste de la physique, qui oppose diamétralement observateur et observé, matière et vide, matière et conscience humaine, (...)

• The Materialist Conception of History
  1 October 2018, by Robert Paris

  G.V. Plekhanov
  The Materialist Conception of History
  (1891)
  I
  We must confess that it was with no little prejudice that we took up the book of this Roman professor. We had been rather frightened by certain works of some of his compatriots – A. Loria, for example (see, in particular, La teoria economica della constituzione politica). But a perusal of the very first pages was enough to convince us that we had been mistaken, and that Achille Loria is one thing and Antonio Labriola (...)

• Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  4 December 2021

  C.L.R. James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (...)

• Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
  24 January 2022

  Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
  Frederick Engels
  PART I - HEGEL
  The volume before us (1) carries us back to a period which, although in time no more than a generation behind us, has become as foreign to the present generation in Germany as if it were already a hundred years old. Yet it was the period of Germany’s preparation for the Revolution of 1848; and all that has happened since then in our country has been merely a continuation of 1848, merely the (...)

• Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
  8 September 2019

  Who Was Christian Rakovsky
  Christian Rakovsky against Stalinism
  Speech to the Fifteenth Party Congress
  (December 1927)
  Comrades! The sphere of international relations is that sphere which necessitates the greatest unity in the party. Our foreign enemy is the most dangerous of all enemies, both for our party and the proletarian dictatorship. [Voices: “That is way you are breaking up the party. You should have known this before! You should have remembered that on November 7th!”] (...)

• C L R James, Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  23 August 2008, by Robert Paris

  C L R James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (...)

• Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  23 March 2022, by Robert Paris

  Critical Battle Against French Materialism
  Karl Marx, The Holy Family
  “Spinozism dominated the eighteenth century both in its later French variety, which made matter into substance, and in deism, which conferred on matter a more spiritual name.... Spinoza’s French school and the supporters of deism were but two sects disputing over the true meaning of his system.... The simple fate of this Enlightenment was its decline in romanticism after being obliged to surrender to the reaction (...)

• Marxism and Science
  11 January 2018

  Marxism and Science
  Engels, Introduction, Dialectics of Nature, 1883 :
  MODERN natural science, which alone has achieved an all-round systematic and scientific development, as contrasted with the brilliant natural-philosophical intuitions of antiquity and the extremely important but sporadic discoveries of the Arabs, which for the most part vanished without results - this modern natural science dates, like all more recent history, from that mighty epoch which we Germans term the (...)

• Pour Marx et Engels, tout est fondé sur la conscience humaine ou sur des lois objectives qui imposent des transformations parce qu’elles sont objectivement nécessaires ?
  23 mai 2017, par Robert Paris

  « Ce n’est pas la conscience des hommes qui détermine leur existence, c’est au contraire leur existence sociale qui détermine leur conscience »
  Karl Marx. Critique de l’Economie politique
  « Une révolution est un phénomène purement naturel qui obéit davantage à des lois physiques qu’aux règles qui déterminent en temps ordinaire l’évolution de la société. Ou plutôt, ces règles prennent dans la révolution un caractère qui les rapproche beaucoup plus des lois de la physique, la force (...)

• Notre objectif est de construire le parti révolutionnaire, disent-ils...
  23 juin 2018, par Robert Paris

  La religion du parti n’est pas le sens politique du parti de classe du prolétariat
  Tout au long de son existence, Marx a parlé au nom d’un « parti ouvrier », mais il n’entendait pas par ce terme une organisation particulière, un groupe qu’il aurait fondé ou soutenu, une internationale, une structure politique bien déterminée. Il parlait de parti prolétarien y compris quand lui-même ne faisait partie d’aucune organisation, c’est-à-dire pendant une grande partie de son existence. Il (...)