Communist University

However, there is plenty more. Louis Proyect of the Unrepentant Marxist blog has an online marxism class over here at Yahoo groups.

And, I've recently discovered the blog of David Harvey. Harvey covers Reading Marx's Capital. A lot of people struggle with that work which is, nevertheless, critical in moving beyond Marx's humanistic and philosophical radicalism into his mature work.

Marxist.net marxist.net

socialistworld.net http://www.socialistworld.net/

What is Marxism? http://www.marxism.org.uk/

Socialist Party FAQ http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/FAQFrame.htm

[ 19 June 2008: Message edited by: aka Mycroft ]

Anarchist Library

Edited to add a link to a Canadian giant.

George Woodcock

[ 19 June 2008: Message edited by: kropotkin1951 ]

[ 19 June 2008: Message edited by: kropotkin1951 ]

Hits include Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle, meant as the SI's book of theory.

quote:

---

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

---

And its counterpart, the SI praxis, Raoul Vaneigem's The Revolution of Everyday Life.

quote:

---

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have corpses in their mouths.

---

Hot stuff.

[ 24 June 2008: Message edited by: Catchfire ]

Anyway, here is the link to the 5 part History of Neoliberalism.

And, as a bonus, here is a summary of Harvey's article on "Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction". It sounds a lot like Klein without the lightweight Keynesian remedies.

quote:

---

Neoliberalism has become a hegemonic discourse with pervasive effects on ways of thought and political-economic practices to the point where it is now part of the commonsense way we interpret, live in, and understand the world. How did neoliberalism achieve such an exalted status, and what does it stand for? In this article, the author contends that neoliberalism is above all a project to restore class dominance to sectors that saw their fortunes threatened by the ascent of social democratic endeavors in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Although neoliberalism has had limited effectiveness as an engine for economic growth, it has succeeded in channeling wealth from subordinate classes to dominant ones and from poorer to richer countries. This process has entailed the dismantling of institutions and narratives that promoted more egalitarian distributive measures in the preceding era.

---

In a nutshell, Harvey characterizes neoliberalism as class warfare or class revenge by the bosses. In the face of such class warfare, those who preach abandoning class struggle, or claim that it is passé, are actually preaching capitulation or surrender in the face of this many decades of assault. That's what could be called class treason. Yup.

[ 16 July 2008: Message edited by: N.Beltov ]

This site seems to be a very long list taken from the old Jay's Marxist and Leftist Links site, which I can't seem to find any more.

quote:

---

Originally posted by jeff house:
I thought the best title was the "Defend Lenin Mausoleum".

---

That does sound pretty funny! I'll look at it one day, might have something to do with Gorby.

Gorbachev recently called for the tomb to be removed and for Lenin to be buried in a grave with family members. Gorby must be running out of speaking engagements, and thought this dumb proposal would put him back on the speaker's circuit list. Why would the Russian government ever close down Lenin's tomb? It makes great money in tourist trade every year.

[ 16 July 2008: Message edited by: Robespierre ]