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Les dernières années de Karl Marx

Marcello Musto propose ici une conférence sur l’œuvre tardive de Marx, en mettant en lumière des écrits inédits ou précédemment négligés, dont beaucoup ne sont pas disponibles en langue française. On découvre notamment sa critique du colonialisme européen et ses développements nouveaux sur les sociétés non occidentales : il envisage en particulier la possibilité d’une révolution dans les pays non capitalistes.

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A Forgotten Chapter in Marx’s Intellectual Biography: His Last Years

In this talk, Marcello Musto will claim a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx’s critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx’s late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike.

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Los estudios sobre Marx en nuestros días

Contrario a los pronósticos que anticipaban su caída definitiva en el olvido, en los últimos años Marx ha regresado a la atención de los académicos internacionales. El valor de su pensamiento ha sido reafirmado por muchos y sus escritos están siendo desempolvados en las bibliotecas de Europa, Estados Unidos y Japón.

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Repensar Marx e os marxismos: Guia para novas leituras

Lançamento de Repensar Marx e os marxismos: guia para novas leituras de Marcello Musto.
Debate com Marcello Musto, José Paulo Netto e Virgínia Fontes.
Repensar Marx e os marxismos, de Marcello Musto, é o livro do mês do Armas da Crítica, o clube do livro da Boitempo.

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The Brutality of War and the Response of the Labour Movement

While political science has probed the ideological, political, economic and even psychological motivations behind the drive to war, socialist theory has made a unique contribution by highlighting the relationship between the development of capitalism and war. There’s a long and rich tradition of the Left’s opposition to militarism that dates back to the International Working Men’s Association. It is an excellent resource for understanding the origins of war under capitalism and helping leftists maintain our clear opposition to it. In this talk, Marcello Musto examines the position of all the main currents (socialist, socialdemocratic, communist, anarchist and feminist) intellectuals (Engels, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Jaurès, Luxemburg, Lenin, Mao and Khrushchev) of the Left on the war and its different declinations (‘war of defence’, ‘just war’, ‘revolutionary war’).

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Discussion on the Book Workers Unite!: The International 150 Years Later

In its brief life, the International Working Men’s Association (IWMA) became the symbol of class struggle and influenced the ideas of millions of workers all over the planet. The 158th anniversary of its birth (1864-2022) offers an important opportunity to reread their resolutions, to learn from the experiences of its protagonists, and to better theorize solutions to our contemporary issues.

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Què hi ha de nou, vell? Actualitat de debats marxistes

Acompanyats per marxòlegs de rellevància internacional, ens endinsem en debats, l’actualitat dels quals, ressona a través de la història. Amb Marcello Musto, Mónica Clúa, Clara Ramas i Xabier Gràcia

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Presentacion del Centre d’Estudis Unitat Popular

Presentem un espai per lliurar la batalla de les idees, obert a la participació de totes aquelles persones que es senten properes al projecte de construcció de la Unitat Popular.

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Grundrisse con Marcello Musto

Escritos entre 1857 y 1858, los Grundrisse son el primer borrador de la crítica de la economía política de Karl Marx. A pesar de sus vicisitudes editoriales y publicación tardía, estos manuscritos contienen numerosas reflexiones acerca de temas que Marx no pudo desarrollar en ninguna otra parte de su obra y son, por lo tanto, de extrema importancia para una interpretación general de su pensamiento.

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Another Marx. New Profiles of an Evergreen

Despite the predictions that consigned it to eternal oblivion, Karl Marx’s thought has returned to the limelight in recent years. Faced with a deep new crisis of capitalism, many are again looking to an author who in the past was often wrongly associated with the Soviet Union, and who was too hastily dismissed after 1989. After the waning of interest in the 1980s and the “conspiracy of silence” in the 1990s, new or republished editions of his work have become available almost everywhere. The literature dealing with Marx, which all but dried up twenty-five years ago, is showing signs of revival in many countries.

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War and the Left: Considerations on a Chequered History

While political science has probed the ideological, political, economic and even psychological motivations behind the drive to war, socialist theory has made a unique contribution by highlighting the relationship between the development of capitalism and war. There’s a long and rich tradition of the Left’s opposition to militarism that dates back to the International Working Men’s Association. It is an excellent resource for understanding the origins of war under capitalism and helping leftists maintain our clear opposition to it. In this article, the author examines the position of all the main currents (socialist, socialdemocratic, communist, anarchist and feminist) intellectuals (Engels, Kropotkin, Malatesta, Jaurès, Luxemburg, Lenin, Mao and Khrushchev) of the Left on the war and its different declinations (‘war of defence’, ‘just war’, ‘revolutionary war’).

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Ist Marxismus eurozentristisch

Seit den 1970er Jahren heißt es immer wieder, marxistische Theorie würde Menschen im Globalen Süden geringschätzen. Es fallen Argumente wie: »Marx hat die britische Kolonialherrschaft in Indien verteidigt« oder »Marxist:innen sind der Meinung, afrikanische Länder müssten sich erstmal wie der Westen entwickeln«. Marcello Musto zeigt in seinem Vortrag, dass sich Marx gegen Ende seines Lebens mit nicht-westeuropäischen Gesellschaften beschäftigt hat. Er erklärt, warum die Vorwürfe falsch sind – und warum gerade der Marxismus eine Lösung für eurozentristische Annahmen bietet.

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Gặp gỡ Marcello Musto

The priceless materials of MEGA² – many available only in German and therefore confined to small circles of researchers – show us an author very different from the one that numerous critics, or self-styled disciples, presented for such a long time. Indeed, the new textual acquisitions in MEGA² make it possible to say that, of the classics of political, economic and philosophical thought, Marx is the author whose profile has changed the most in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. Join us for an interview with Marcello Musto.