Re: [Marxism] Mandel's writings

[ertugrul ahmet tonak <eatonak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

another addition to what Jurrian suggested.  mandel's long prefaces to
the new (penguin/vintage) editions of Capital.  these are great guides
to 3 volumes of Capital plus good examples of critical literature review
type essays on Marxist economic theory at the time.

btw, I produced a video of Shaikh/Mandel global economic crisis panel
(NYC/Socialist Scholars Conferenece) in the 80's where Mandel publicly
announced Anwar as the most important Marxist economist at the time.

acpollack2@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> A couple additions to what Jurriaan wrote. First, Late Capitalism is a great example of 
> what Jurriaan refers to vis-a-vis Marxist Economic Theory, i.e. an effort to 
> "actually develop Marx's theory, using the new findings of the modern sciences, like 
> Marx himself did." In the case of Late Capitalism, this meant, among other things, 
> trying to integrate the various causes of crisis; to take a new look at technological 
> development and its limits; and to reassess competing theories of imperialism.
>
> His "Leninist Theory of Organization" had a big impact on me. It was the first 
> thing I'd read that made clear there was more to organizing than the party/united front 
> dichotomy. Specifically this meant in the '70s that the SWP/mass antiwar movement pair, 
> while important (and we could do much, much worse today, in fact we are!), did not 
> grapple with other possible intermediate forms of organization (which could, for example, 
> take up tasks of solidarity with liberation movements).
>
> Whether the pro-Mandel European sections did anything worthwhile with this 
> theory is another question....
>
>
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