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class="site-main"> <div class="clearfix container"> <section id="primary" class="content-area"> <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main"> <header class="page-header"> <h1 class="page-title"> Karl Marx </h1> </header> <article id="post-3339" class="clearfix post-3339 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-book-reviews tag-friedrich-engels tag-german-history tag-karl-marx tag-marxism tag-social-democracy"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/theorising-the-future/" rel="bookmark">Theorising the future society: The <em>Critique of the Gotha Programme</em></a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/theorising-the-future/" title="3:09 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2023-07-07T15:09:47+01:00">7th July 2023</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>A review of Critique of the Gotha Programme, Karl Marx (translated by Kevin B Anderson and Karel Ludenhof) (PM Press, 2022), £15.99 The need for the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement by a socialist society based on human need… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/theorising-the-future/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/book-reviews/" rel="category tag">Book reviews</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/friedrich-engels/" rel="tag">Friedrich Engels</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/german-history/" rel="tag">German history</a>, <a 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href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/making-an-ecological-worldview/" title="Making an ecological worldview" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/engels-morris-and-bernal-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/making-an-ecological-worldview/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/book-reviews/" rel="category tag">Book reviews</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/ecology/" rel="tag">Ecology</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/environment/" rel="tag">Environment</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/friedrich-engels/" rel="tag">Friedrich Engels</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/science/" rel="tag">Science</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2534" class="clearfix post-2534 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-karl-marx tag-left-reformism tag-lenin tag-reformism"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/what-can-we-learn-from-kautsky-today/" rel="bookmark">What can we learn from Kautsky today?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/what-can-we-learn-from-kautsky-today/" title="11:50 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-07-13T23:50:36+01:00">13th July 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/what-can-we-learn-from-kautsky-today/" title="What can we learn from Kautsky today?" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/karl-kautsky-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Karl Kautsky was known as the Pope of Marxism in the early 20th century, but until recently he appeared to have been almost forgotten.1 He was the leading theorist of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), a nominally Marxist mass… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/what-can-we-learn-from-kautsky-today/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/left-reformism/" rel="tag">left reformism</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/lenin/" rel="tag">Lenin</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/reformism/" rel="tag">Reformism</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2506" class="clearfix post-2506 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-article tag-friedrich-engels tag-karl-marx tag-womens-liberation"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-engels-und-ihr-kampf-fur-frauenbefreiung/" rel="bookmark">Marx, Engels und ihr Kampf für Frauenbefreiung</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-engels-und-ihr-kampf-fur-frauenbefreiung/" title="9:32 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-05-12T21:32:06+01:00">12th May 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Zuerst auf Englisch erschienen in International Socialism 166—isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/. Aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning. Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels waren große Verfechter der Frauenbefreiung – in Bezug auf die Theorieentwicklung und die Praxis, sowohl öffentlich als auch privat.1 Es wurden… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-engels-und-ihr-kampf-fur-frauenbefreiung/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/friedrich-engels/" rel="tag">Friedrich Engels</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/womens-liberation/" rel="tag">women's liberation</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2437" class="clearfix post-2437 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-friedrich-engels tag-karl-marx tag-womens-liberation tag-womens-oppression"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/" rel="bookmark">How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/" title="7:31 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2020-03-29T19:31:20+01:00">29th March 2020</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/richardthesis70/" title="View all posts by International Socialism">International Socialism</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-thumbnail"> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/" title="How Marx and Engels fought for women’s liberation" > <img width="250" height="175" src="https://isj.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jenny-and-Karl-250x175.jpg" class="attachment-thumb-featured size-thumb-featured wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" loading="lazy" /> </a> </div> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/jcox-marx-engels-women-lib/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/friedrich-engels/" rel="tag">Friedrich Engels</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/womens-liberation/" rel="tag">women's liberation</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/womens-oppression/" rel="tag">Women's oppression</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2251" class="clearfix post-2251 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-book-reviews tag-ecology tag-karl-marx"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-the-robbery-of-the-soil-and-the-worker/" rel="bookmark">Marx and the robbery of the soil and the worker</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-the-robbery-of-the-soil-and-the-worker/" title="11:05 am" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2019-07-01T11:05:18+01:00">1st July 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/camillapoppet86/" title="View all posts by Camilla">Camilla</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>A review of Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (Monthly Review Press, 2017), £22.32 Kohei Saito’s book Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism is based on extensive and painstaking research.1 As well as Marx’s published… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-the-robbery-of-the-soil-and-the-worker/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/book-reviews/" rel="category tag">Book reviews</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/ecology/" rel="tag">Ecology</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-2189" class="clearfix post-2189 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-article tag-black-nationalism tag-karl-marx tag-racism"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-race/" rel="bookmark">Marx and race: a Eurocentric analysis?</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-race/" title="2:56 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2019-04-18T14:56:46+01:00">18th April 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/camillapoppet86/" title="View all posts by Camilla">Camilla</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>There is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia.1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists. The movement sets out to end the dominance of conservative white men as the repositories of… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-and-race/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/black-nationalism/" rel="tag">black nationalism</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/racism/" rel="tag">Racism</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1975" class="clearfix post-1975 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-article tag-karl-marx tag-the-working-class"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/gravedigger-thesis/" rel="bookmark">Was Marx wrong about the working class? Reconsidering the gravedigger thesis</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/gravedigger-thesis/" title="10:24 am" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2018-04-14T10:24:36+01:00">14th April 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/camillapoppet86/" title="View all posts by Camilla">Camilla</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels sketched what has come to be known as the gravedigger thesis, widely believed to propose that the objective conditions of capitalism would inevitably produce a revolutionary working class which would overthrow… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/gravedigger-thesis/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/the-working-class/" rel="tag">the working class</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1974" class="clearfix post-1974 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-article tag-first-international tag-karl-marx"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/marxs-politics/" rel="bookmark">Marx’s politics</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marxs-politics/" title="10:23 am" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2018-04-13T10:23:40+01:00">13th April 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/camillapoppet86/" title="View all posts by Camilla">Camilla</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>Marx’s return Karl Marx’s reputation has changed significantly in the 35 years since the centenary of his death in 1983. I wrote The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx to mark that anniversary against the background of the huge explosion of… <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marxs-politics/" class="more-link">Continue Reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a></p> </div> <footer class="entry-meta entry-footer"> <span class="cat-links"> <i class="ico-folder"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/category/article/" rel="category tag">Article</a> </span> <span class="tags-links"> <i class="ico-tags"></i> <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/first-international/" rel="tag">First International</a>, <a href="https://isj.org.uk/tag/karl-marx/" rel="tag">Karl Marx</a> </span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-1631" class="clearfix post-1631 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-book-reviews tag-karl-marx"> <header class="clearfix entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-deflated/" rel="bookmark">Marx deflated</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="posted-on">Posted on <a href="https://isj.org.uk/marx-deflated/" title="4:00 pm" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published updated" datetime="2016-10-07T16:00:59+01:00">7th October 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> by <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://isj.org.uk/author/camillapoppet86/" title="View all posts by Camilla">Camilla</a></span></span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary"> <p>A review of Gareth Stedman Jones, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (Penguin, 2016), £35 In 1972 the Cambridge historian Gareth Stedman Jones wrote a foreword to the English edition of Werner Blumenberg’s useful biography of Karl Marx. 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