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This article attempts to assess Mario Bunge's important but widely neglected criticisms of dialectics. It begins by providing a contextualized interpretation of Friedrich Engels’s metaphysics of the dialectics of nature before embarking... more
The issue of “housing” has generally not been granted an important role in post-war political economy. Housing-as-policy has been the preserve of social policy analysis and of a growing field of housing studies; housing-as-market has been... more
Contemporary geographical thought is constrained by a political economic imagination rooted in binarism, which is exemplified in debates surrounding neoliberalism. Neoliberal proponents call for decentralization and increased capital... more
This article is a manifesto for anarchist geographies, which are understood as kaleidoscopic spatialities that allow for multiple, non-hierarchical, and protean connections between autonomous entities, wherein solidarities, bonds, and... more
This essay takes Engels' The Housing Question as a provocation to (1) apply ground rent theory to housing (something which Engels neglected to do) and (2) investigate Engels' conflation of housing struggles with the concerns of a... more
This paper considers the importance of examples from India in the text of Marx’s Capital. In tracking Marx’s preoccupations, it is possible to show the relevance, especially for today, of his critique in a global frame, as political... more
This article identifies two different patterns in how Karl Marx, in collaboration with Friedrich Engels, portrayed the relationship between the Jews and modern capitalism. The early Marx described modern economic life as domination by a... more
Ever since the publication in 1719 of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the novel’s eponymous protagonist has had a pervasive presence in the modern social and cultural imaginary, giving rise to an entire literary genre known as... more
Questo è uno dei tanti brani dimenticati dai socialisti di stato in quanto mette in luce come lo stato non abbia alcuna funzione da svolgere nella società socialista. Per questo, come dice Engels, esso va relegato nel museo delle... more
"Abstract Housing nationalization as a solution to urban inequalities has a long history in European social thought. This article describes housing nationalization in a state-socialist context. Using a political economy perspective and... more
"But do not all rebellions without exception have their roots in the disasterous isolation of man from the community? Does not every rebellion necessarily presuppose isolation? Would the revolution of 1789 have taken place if French... more
A (re)produção material do viver humano descreve, em última instância, quanto ao nosso entendi-mento, o que na conceção materialista da história de Marx e Engels se pode entender por base económica. Com vista a ilustrar o afirmado,... more
This paper revisits the debate on the relevance of the labor theory of value for the anthropological task. It argues that the labor theory of value can creatively inform and reformulate in critical ways a variety of social issues... more
The study deals with the criticism of the policy of the Ľudovít Štúr and his generation during the years 1848/49 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in the con-text of their broader analysis of the situation in the Habsburg monarchy. The... more
This essay explores some aspects of the debate led by Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar on the strategy of the French Communist Party (PCF) in the 1970s. They saw the Eurocommunist turn of the party as a strategy that accepted the... more
O presente artigo visa resgatar a contribuição do pensamento marxista sobre a problemática do Direito moderno, cuja expressão teórica encontra-se na perspectiva liberal, e, consequentemente, apontar os limites dessa... more
Reading different or controversial intentions into Marx and Engels' works has been somewhat a common but rather unquestioned practice in the history of Marxist scholarship. Engels' Dialectics of Nature, a torso for some and a great book... more
This essay reflects critically on the political context production process, ideas and strategies of our feature length documentary film The Condition of the Working Class. It explores why were inspired by Friedrich Engels' 1844 book of... more
The article aims to provide a general overview of the major lines of understanding of violence that have arisen in contemporary political thought. The first section considers the mutual relationship between violence and political power in... more
This short article is a reply to four commentaries that were written in response to our paper [Aalbers, M.B. and Christophers, B. (2014) Centering housing in political economy. Housing, Theory and Society 31: in press.]. Rather than... more
The 200th anniversary of the birth of F.Engels comes at a time when his contribution to Marxism is being disputed by Neue Lekture and Sraffian authors, based on the alleged discovery of him having distorted Capital. The evidence presented... more
Ich betrachte in meinem Artikel die meines Erachtens entscheidende Rolle des jungen Friedrich Engels bei der Entstehung der marxistischen Ökologie und Philosophie der Umwelt. Engels wird oft nur als ein Mitarbeiter von Marx betrachtet,... more
Friedrich Engels' dialectical assessment of modern science resulted from his fascination with the natural sciences (cell physiology, thermodynamics, theory of evolution) in combination with his resurging interest in the work of "old... more
ook-review of Ernesto Screpanti’s Libertarian Communism: Marx, Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom. In this book, Ernesto Screpanti questions the nature and status of freedom within both Marx’s thought and possible forms of... more
Manfred Steger argues that properly to evaluate the last writings of Friedrich Engels, theorists must situate his work historically. With such a perspective, the tensions in his last major political work (what has come to be known as his... more
Reading different or controversial intentions into Marx and Engels’ works has been a common but somewhat unquestioned practice in the history of Marxist scholarship. Engels’ Dialectics of Nature, a torso for some and a great book for... more
Marx said that Darwinian theory was a "foundation" or "basis" for historical materialism. Yet there is no consensus on what Marx meant by his comments on The Origin of Species. Scholars have tended to divide into two broad camps: on the... more
History bears testament to the Manifesto's planetary circulation, global readership and material impact. Interpretations of this short document have affected the lives of millions globally, particularly in the second half of the twentieth... more
This work explores the significance of two recurring themes in the thought of Gilles Deleuze: his critique of psychoanalysis and praise for Anglo-American literature. Tracing the overlooked influence of English writer D. H. Lawrence on... more
Die Marx-Rezeption des traditionellen Marxismus wurde vom Mythos der Einheit des Marxschen und Engelsschen Werks beherrscht. Seit den 1920er Jahren, beginnend vor allem mit Georg Lukács’ Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein, begann außerhalb... more
"Filosofia politica", 2, 2001, pp. 233-256
In 1758 Roger Boscovich (1711-1787) published "A Theory of natural philosophy reduced to one unique law of forces that exist in nature". The Theory has had a major impact on Boscovich's contemporaries and resulted in many followers in the... more
This chapter proceeds in three parts. First, I begin by considering recent orthodox accounts of self-determination in international law, which generally seek to downplay the importance and content of the right of peoples to... more
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7360-4169 Resumen: Reseña del libro "Marxismo y dialéctica de la naturaleza". Palabras clave: Marxismo, dialéctica de la naturaleza, Engels, Marx. Abstract: Book Review on "Marxism and dialectics of... more
Of all the standard criticisms of Marxism, the claim that it is wedded to a mechanical and deterministic account of history is among the most pervasive. It is also among the least defensible. This chapter argues that Marxism affords an... more
A Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores surge tardiamente em Portugal. É somente em 1871 que ela contacta com os socialistas portugueses, portanto, num momento em que suas lutas internas eram intensas. As lutas políticas sentidas na... more
A economia política se constitui como um dos fundamentos da análise realizada por Karl Marx acerca da sociedade dominada pelo modo de produção capitalista. Contudo, ainda que esta ciência tenha estado presente na maioria das obras deste... more
“The IWMA and its Precursors in London, c. 1830–1860”, in Fabrice Bensimon, Quentin Deluermoz and Jeanne Moisand (eds.), “Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth”. The First International in a global perspective, Leiden, Brill, 2018, pp. 21-38.
Resumo: Ao se completarem 120 anos da morte de Friedrich Engels, fazem-se indicações para os estudos do marxismo (re) aproximando Karl Marx deste seu amigo, tornando-os indissociáveis. Aponta-se como nas formulações de cada um... more
El ensayo, mediante la polémica con otras posiciones, propone una aproximación marxista a la relación conocimiento-valor, vista como mutua penetración de momentos diferenciados en indisoluble unidad. A partir de esa relación, se concibe y... more