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	In Defence of Marxism
		In a speech at the summer school of the International Marxist Tendency, Jorge Martin analysed the stage the revolution is at, the dangers it faces and outlined the way forward.
		The issues which it covers are the trade unions and the Labour party, and the Marxists' orientation towards the mass organisations.
		Also covered is the importance of the youth, emphasing the importance of theory and the training of Marxist cadres for the enormous events that impend in Britain and elsewhere.
	www.marxist.com (1616 words)

	Marxism
		Marxism is the political practice and or social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a nineteenth century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary and Friedrich Engels.
		Although there are still many Marxist revolutionary movements and political parties around the world, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, relatively few countries have governments which describe themselves as Marxist.
		Marx's theory of business cycles; of economic growth and development, especially in two sector models; and of the declining rate of profit, or crisis theory, are other important elements of Marxist economics.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/marxism (1746 words)

	Learn more about Marxism in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He developed this theory of exploitation of the proletariat with an exposition of the labor theory of value in the first volume of Capital, while remaining aware that the labor theory of value was not a valid theory of relative prices.
		Marx's theories of business cycles; of economic growth and development, especially in two sector models; and of the declining rate of profit are other important elements of Marxist economics.
		Though many Marxist authors have attempted to portray the Austrian school as a bourgeois reaction to Marx, such an interpretation is untenable: Carl Menger wrote his Principles of Economics at almost the same time as Marx was completing Das Kapital.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/ma/marxism.html (1624 words)

	Marxism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although there are still many Marxist revolutionary social movements and political parties around the world, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, relatively few countries have governments which describe themselves as Marxist.
		From a Marxist perspective, the actually-existing basic classes in today's advanced economies are the capitalist class, the new middle classes who engage in both labour and managerial responsibilities, self-employed proprietors, the working class and a lower "lumpenised" stratum.
		It is common to speak of Marxian rather than Marxist theory when referring to political study that draws from the work of Marx for the analysis and understanding of existing (usually capitalist) economies, but rejects the more speculative predictions that Marx and many of his followers made about post-capitalist societies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxism (3781 words)

	marxist theory - quote of the day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		marxist theory This famous passage, in a slightly different way, seems to again refute the belief that Historical Materialism is "deterministic" or even "fatalistic".
		Against idealism, visions of "Utopia", or purely theoretical philosophical thought, marxist theory M-arx believed that ideas needed to be rooted in the concrete present and actively applied to this concrete present in order to prove their worth.
		Some people believe that Historical Materialism, marxist theory because it considers individuals as residing in historically constructed situations not of their own choosing, is "deterministic" or "fatalistic" - in other words marxist theory, that it does not consider individuals as possessing a motive force.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /marxquote/se_marxism/marxist_theory.html (219 words)

	Marxist Theory of Homosexuality
		Marxist theory of homosexuality is principally concerned to explain the formation and constitution of homosexuality within and between concrete social formations by explaining how these homosexualities operate, through what forms, in what kinds of relations, and as part of what kinds of systems and processes.
		Therefore, future Marxist theory of homosexuality will certainly be concerned to assist in understanding the conditions which make possible, the forces which give rise to, the ends which are advanced by, and the interests which are served through heterosexist repression of homosexuality and homophobic oppression of gays and lesbians in fin-de-siecle late capitalism.
		And yet, Marxist theory of homosexuality must, as Marxist theory, always be concerned with more than this as well: it must be concerned with a critical evaluation of the contribution that gay and lesbian resistance and opposition to heterosexism and homophobia is making and can make towards general sexual emancipation through general social transformation.
	www.etext.org /Politics/AlternativeOrange/2/v2n6_mth.html (5306 words)

	Marxist Media Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marxist theorists tend to emphasize the role of the mass media in the reproduction of the status quo, in contrast to liberal pluralists who emphasize the role of the media in promoting freedom of speech.
		The Frankfurt School of 'critical theory' was regarded by orthodox Marxists as 'revisionist' partly because it criticised economism and crude materialism, and partly because of its eclecticism.
		Marxist theory emphasizes the importance of social class in relation to both media ownership and audience interpretation of media texts: this remains an important factor in media analysis.
	law.ankara.edu.tr /~erdogan/marxism.htm (4184 words)

	MARXIST THEORY term papers, research papers on MARXIST THEORY and essays at Essay Centre
		Dependency theory was fashioned to explain the patterns of development in Latin America and held that this development had been conditioned by the incorporation of the region into the capitalist mode of production.
		"Theory X" is the view that workers basically do not want to work, and will do anything to avoid it; the essential business of management is therefore to use a combination of threats and rewards to keep their workers at work.
		It concludes that the greatest weakness of neo-Marxist reconsideration of Marxist theory is that it is still in process and requires additional study (particularly the questions of over-accumulation and stagnation), but such a "weakness" is to be expected in such a revisionist effort.
	www.essaycentre.co.uk /lib/essay/marxist-theory.html (2372 words)

	Marxist theory of Racism and (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marxist models of racial discrimination have been developed to rectify this shortcoming, and to simultaneously critique the implications derived from Gary Becker and Milton Friedman’s conclusion that capitalism and racism are incompatible.
		A theory of racism is necessary to explain how and why fls are concentrated in lower segments, why mobility between labor segments differs in a manner unfavorable to fls, and what accounts for the changes over time of the distribution of fls and whites within each segment.
		The main weakness of the theory, that racism divides the working class, is its underestimation of the importance of racial and other non-class groupings in both the perpetuation and the possible elimination of racism.
	academic.evergreen.edu /b/bohmerp/marxracism.htm (3228 words)

	Marxist film theory
		Marxist film theory is one of the oldest forms of film theory.
		German Marxist film makers had, however, been behind the development of subjective point of view camera angles, and they believed that it was possible to discomfit bourgeoise audiences with the very tools of bourgeoise illusionism.
		Some later Marxist critics saw the very cinematic apparatus to be infused in the capitalistic ideology which no film can escape.
	www.kiwipedia.com /marxist-film-theory.html (389 words)

	7 "The Marxist Theory of
		The doctrine of socio‑economic formations is particularly important to Marx's theory of state and law, because it provides the basis for the precise and scientific delineation of the different types of state and the different systems of law.
		It is precisely this false theory of the supra‑class nature of the state that is used for the justification of the treacherous policy of the Social Democrats.
		In the bourgeois theory of the state this question not only could not be developed, but could not even be correctly posed, because bourgeois science always tries to disguise the class nature of all states, and in particular the class nature of the capitalist state.
	home.law.uiuc.edu /~pmaggs/pch7.htm (9479 words)

	Marxism
		Although there are still many Marxist revolutionary movement s and political parties around the world, since the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite states, relatively few countries have governments which describe themselves as Marxist.
		Marxists believe that capitalist society is divided into two powerful social class es:
		In Defence of Marxism - Marxist analysis of current events and historical and theoretical subjects.
	www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Marxism.html (2151 words)

	Marxist / Materialist Feminism
		I always considered her a Marxist Feminist because, unlike Socialist Feminists (whose avoidance of Marx's alleged reductionisms led them to postulate ahistorical theories of patriarchy), she took Marxism seriously and developed her analysis of reproduction as a basis for the oppression of women firmly within the Marxist tradition.
		The authors differentiate materialist feminism from marxist feminism by indicating that it is the end result of several discourses (historical materialism, marxist and radical feminism, and postmodern and psychoanalytic theories of meaning and subjectivity) among which the postmodern input, in their view, is the source of its defining characteristics.
		I understand Marxist Feminism as the body of theory produced by feminists who, adopting the logic of analysis of historical materialism, expand the scope of the theory while critically incorporating useful insights and knowledges from non-marxist theorizing, just as Marx grappled with the discoveries of the classical economists and their shortcomings.
	www.cddc.vt.edu /feminism/mar.html (3132 words)

	Marxist Theory and Criticism: 1. Classical Marxism
		Another star in the firmament of early Marxist theory was Franz Mehring (1846-1919), who, along with Rosa Luxemburg and others, founded the German Communist party in 1918.
		A striking figure in the Marxist canon was Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919), whose contribution to Marxist economics was profound.
		Contrasting dramatic theater (which follows Aristotle's guidelines) with his own "epic" theater, Brecht avers that the audience's capacity for action must be roused and that far from undergoing catharsis, the audience must be forced to make decisions, partly by its standard expectations' being disappointed, a procedure Brecht called "the alienation effect" (91).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/marxist_theory_and_criticism-_1.html (3076 words)

	Marxist Theory of the State
		Similarly, the teaching of the Marxists, elaborated by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, that the state was based upon the principle of force, has caused the whole of bourgeois society — to shriek and rear up — at its alleged cynicism and inhumanity.
		The present pamphlet on the Marxist theory of the state serves as a valuable complement to that popular exposition of the dynamics of the capitalist system.
		Marx, developing the theory of the proletarian state, of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as he called it, the state that withers away, gave it several characteristics, examples of which were found in the Paris Commune of 1871.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/mandel-state.html (8330 words)

	The Marxist Theory of Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the last two decades more theories of the trade cycle were produced than in the preceding century, although the periodical alternation of booms and slumps is as old as industrial capitalism.
		A theory of the trade cycle has to explain both why production can expand over a period of time in spite of the underlying permanent contradiction between the increasing productive power and the limited consumption capacity, and why this contradiction must in the end find expression in a violent crisis.
		The Marxist theory makes it clear beyond doubt that there will be crises as long as capitalism exists and that crises tend to become deeper and more violent as the basic contradictions of capitalist production grew.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Theory/Crisis.html (5833 words)

	Marxist Theory of Homosexuality: Past, Present and Future
		Nonetheless, marxists have had to articulate various theories of homosexuality and of gay and lesbian life and liberation, even if these theories remain largely untheorized, and even if most of these theories do not develop out of any serious — rather than vulgar — use of dialectical and historical materialist precepts and concepts.
		Marxists have not hesitated to make sense of homosexuality and gay and lesbian life and liberation, even if this sense has not often been very good sense.
		But it is the attention to concrete material conditions, and to the possibility of their transformation, that is the hallmark of the Marxist, however subtle and fascinating the mediations between base and superstructure may be.
	www.etext.org /Politics/AlternativeOrange/2/v2n2_mth1.html (2957 words)

	English 495: Marxist Cultural Theory
		By applying Althusser's theory to the relationship of audience and text in the discourse of realist cinema, several film theorists publishing in the British journal, Screen, in the 1970's demonstrated that dominant ideologies are not monolithic.
		That is, despite the fact that Frow's theory specifies the levels at which the category of the "literary" functions in relation to other texts, it results in what seems to be an uncritical privileging of the "literary" in exempting formal textual structures from ideological significance.
		An important strength of discourse theory is that enables one to treat literary discourse as merely one of a complex ensemble of discourses in a particular social formation.
	www.english.ilstu.edu /strickland/495/ideology.html (4663 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - Marxist Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The “two stages” theory led to a series of disasters in the colonial revolution, and the official Communists in Cuba, instead of backing Castro actually supported the Batista regime, all in the name of supporting some imaginary progressive national bourgeoisie.
		A speech given by Alan Woods at the August 2004 international gathering of the international revolutionary Marxist tendency, in which he outlines the general lines of development of the crisis of capitalism today and the effects this is having on the class struggle internationally.
		This is understandable because from this very theory flow all the other conclusions of Marx, in particular that of the need to overthrow capitalism if we are to put an end to all the contradictions of this unjust system which condemns millions of human beings to abject poverty, mass unemployment, periodic economic crises and wars.
	www.marxist.com /marxisttheory.asp (4225 words)

	Marxist International Review: The Importance of Marxist Theory
		“This theory is to be forced down the throats of the workers at once and without development as articles of faith, instead of making the workers raise themselves to its level by dint of their own class instinct.
		One of the fundamental duties of this Marxist journal is to continually combat alien bourgeois ideas, which attempt to hide the real nature of society and deceive the working class.
		Theory is vital as it represents the distilled experience of the working class.
	www.marxist.com /Theory/MIR.htm (1484 words)

	That other great class of commodities: repositioning Marxist educational theory
		To have a 'hard core' Marxist discussion in an education journal (albeit a journal of educational philosophy and theory) is refreshing and in itself a symbol of hope (as it was for me at the time).
		On this argument, Marxist educational theory should start out from labour power on the basis that it is at the heart of the recruitment process, and the recruitment process is the mediating link between education and work (and hence linked ultimately to value creation).
		This paper has argued that Marxist educational theory should be reconfigured and recomposed on the basis of an analysis of labour power as capitalist education and training are involved in the social production of this commodity.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /educol/documents/00001624.htm (18330 words)

	Marxist Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pure Marxist theory is, of course, atheist, though for social as much as philosophical reasons, seeing religion as an immobilizing “feel-good” lie.
		In its purest form, Marxist theory holds that, barring natural or human-made disaster, communism is inevitable.
		More traditional Marxists contend that literary and artistic beauty is always a creation of human work, regardless of the creator’s conscious or unconscious intent and/or class-alliances (and the truly beautiful, like all human wealth, should be accessible to all).
	site.voila.fr /ENGL5310/Marxist.htm (778 words)

	Theory and Method in American Cultural Studies
		This broad category is meant to encompass a variety of Marxist theories which have in common their rejection of economic or class determinism, and a concomitant belief in at least the semi-autonomy of the cultural sphere.
		He argues that AS theory and practice has often been a weak alternative to marxian thought and has suffered from lack of a full encounter with it.
		A wide-ranging collection of sophisticated essays on crucial issues in cultural theory previously neglected by marxists, especially race, gender and the role of culture in imperialism and colonialism.
	www.wsu.edu /~amerstu/tm/marx.html (1259 words)

	Marxist Theory
		Anarchists seem to stand for the same thing we Marxists do - a classless society, a self-organized and self-managed society - what we often sum up with the phrase ‘workers’ power’.
		However, when asked who we will be supporting in the upcoming elections, we have to say “nobody.”.
		Marxist Analysis of the World-Wide Ecological Crisis -a Fourth International resolution.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/theory.html (713 words)

	Marxist.net - Committee for a Workers' International Marxist resource
		Discussion which developed two vital tasks facing Marxists: to defend the genuine ideas of scientific socialism and to campaign to re-establish a mass party of the working class.
		Written by Peter Hadden in 1994, this book remains a compelling Marxist historical analysis of the history of division and rule in Ireland up to the August 31, 1994 IRA announcement of a ceasefire.
		Marxist view of the development of human society
	www.marxist.net (862 words)

	The Marxist-Leninist Theory of History
		Oddly enough, it is the intellectual snobbery and elitism of many of the literati that politically correct egalitarianism appeals to; their partiality to literary Marxism is based not on its economic theory but on its hostility to business and the middle class.
		Marx (1818-1883) did not have a theory of morality; he had a theory of history.
		This was not a theory about "human nature" or "human psychology" [1], but about how the mode of economic production (how goods and services are produced) determines all the other political, social, cultural, and moral structures of a society (thought some Marxists are uncomfortable with this in an absolute sense).
	www.friesian.com /marx.htm (1883 words)

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