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Karl Marx.

On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship. A year later, Louis Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III.

Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar — the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat.

In this work Marx traces how the conflict of different social interests manifest themselves in the complex web of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the outer form of a struggle and its real social content. The proletariat of Paris was at this time too inexperienced to win power, but the experiences of 1848-51 would prove invaluable for the successful workers' revolution of 1871.

#Karl Marx #revolution #france

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

#Howard Zinn #history

C.L.R. James.

#race

CLR James.

The Black Jacobins is one of the best works of Marxist history. it is important because it situates the only successful slave revolution in the context the French Revolution, the slave trade, and world imperialism; it emphases the potential of struggle from below and black self-emancipation; it highlights a revolution which is unknown to many.

#race #imperialism #latin america

Johanna Brenner and Maria Ramas.

We should now discuss in some detail, as it represents what may be considered an emerging Marxist-feminist consensus, Barrett’s central historical account of the formation of the family-household system and the resulting ghettoization of women in low-paying sectors of capitalist production through protective legislation and trade-union exclusivism.

#women

Martha Gimenez

Marx’s methodology is indispensable for identifying a) the capitalist structural conditions and macro-level processes that are the foundations of the inequality between men and women in capitalist societies; and b) the limits of political and legal changes to end gender inequality. The oppression of women is the visible, observable effect (e.g., in the labor market, in socioeconomic stratification, the domestic division of labor, bureaucratic authority structures, etc.) of underlying relations between men and women determined by the articulation between the capitalist mode of production, and the organization of physical and social reproduction among those who must sell their labor power to survive. Feminism, to remain relevant to the majority of women, must, therefore, acknowledge that most women are working women whose fate, and that of their families, are shaped both by gender oppression and class exploitation.

#women #marxist theory

Ian Birchall.

Brecht said that: ‘I have never found anybody without a sense of humour who could understand dialectics.’ Ian Birchall has one, and explains this central idea of Marxism.

#Ian Birchall #marxist theory

Fred Block.

#the state #marxist theory

Vygotsky’s concept of zone of proximal development is more precise and elaborated than its common reception or interpretation. The main purpose of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive introduction to and interpretation of this concept, along with comments about predominant contemporary interpretations. The chapter concludes with some perspectives and implications derived from the interpretation presented here.

#pedagogy

Wayne Au.

Study of Lenin and Vygotsky’s theoretical explorations of social and individual development reveals Vygotsky’s conception of conscious awareness and scientific concepts as directly correlated with Lenin’s conception of consciousness. Following from this core idea, similarities are demonstrated between Lenin’s conception of the role of political leadership in the development of working-class consciousness and the role of Vygotsky’s teacher or “more capable peer” in the development of “conscious awareness.” Finally, Vygotsky’s methodological leap in his conception of individual development is best understood when situated within Lenin’s concept of social development. Vygotsky is thus re-established as operating within the Marxist–Leninist political and philosophical tradition.

#pedagogy #leninism #wayne au

Barbara Jeanne Fields.

#Ideology #Barbara Jeanne Fields #race

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