UNDER CONSTRUCTION: key thinkers, key readings

Towards the renewal of anti-capitalist and anti-nationalist thought

Theodor Adorno

• Elements of Anti-Semitism – (from Dialectic of Enlightenment). By Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer. 1944.
• What Does it Mean to Come to Terms with the Past? – By Theodor W. Adorno [or PDF version here]

• Bloch’s ‘Traces’: The Philosophy of Kitsch
• Commitment
• Commodity Music Analysed
• Correspondence with Benjamin
• Cultural Criticism and Society
• Culture Industry Reconsidered
• Education After Auschwitz
• Hegel. Three Studies
• Husserl and the Problem of Idealism
• Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
• Kultur and Culture
• Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?
• Minima Moralia
• Minima Moralia: Reflections on Damaged Life
• Music, Language, and Composition
• Negative Dialectics
• On Subject and Object
• On the Question: ‘What Is German?’
• On the Score of ‘Parsifal’
• On the Social Situation of Music
• Opinion Research and Publicness (Meinungsforschung und Öffentlichkeit)
• Questions on Intellectual Emigration
• Re-View: ‘On Commitment’ [Continued]
• Resignation
• Richard Strauss. Born June 11, 1864
• Richard Strauss. Part II
• Sociology and Psychology (Part I)
• Sociology and Psychology (Part II)
• The Cullture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture
• The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer
• The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses
• The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture

• Elias Cantti: Discussion with Theodore W. Adorno

• Theodor Adorno and Gerhard Richter Who’s Affraid of the Ivory Tower? A Conversation with Theodore W. Adorno

• Theodor Adorno and Hellmut Becker Education for Maturity and Responsibility

• Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer Odysseus or Myth and Enlightenment
• The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

• Theodore Adorno The Jargon of Authenticity

Jean Amery

• At The Mind’s Limits

Hannah Arendt

• Antisemitism. (from The Origins of Totalitarianism). 1951.
• Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought
• From the Dreyfus Affair to France Today
• Hannah Arendt Essay Collection
• Lectures on Kant’s Political Philosophy
• The Human Condition
• The Origins of Totalitarianism. Part 1
• The Origins of Totalitarianism. Part

Walter Benjamin

• On the Concept of History, 1940

Werner Bonefeld

• “Notes On Antisemitism”, Common Sense, 1977
• Antisemitism and the (Modern) Critique of Capitalism.

Henryk Grossman

• The Theory of Economic Crises, 1919
• The Law of Accumulation and Collapse of the Capitalist System , 1929
• Fragments on criticisms of ‘Law of Accumulation’, 1929-32
• Marx, Classical Political Economy and the Problem of Dynamics, 1941
• The Evolutionist Revolt against Classical Economics, 1943 (excerpts)

Rosa Luxemburg

• The Dreyfus Affair and the Millerand Case. 1899
• The National Question. 1909
• The Accumulation of Capital. 1913
• The Accumulation of Capital: An Anti-Critique. 1915
• Oh! How – German is this Revolution! 1918

Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels

• Friedrich Engels: Anti-Schelling. 1841.
• Marx and Engels: The German Ideology. 1846
• Marx and Engels: True Socialism. 1846
• Engels: The True Socialists. 1847
• Marx: Grundrisse. 1861
• Marx: Capital vol I. 1867

Paul Mattick

• The Permanent Crisis. Henryk Grossman on Capitalist Accumulation, 1934
• Luxemburg versus Lenin, 1935 [also at Kurasje]
• The Story of Japanese Imperialism, 1936
• On the Engels-Kautsky Correspondence, 1937
• The Nonsense of Planning, 1937
• Marxism and Brookings Institution, 1937
• Review of “Karl Marx” by Karl Korsch, 1939
• Karl Kautsky: From Marx to Hitler, 1939
• Marxism and Marginal Utility Economics, 1939
• Reflections on the Revolution of Our Times, 1944
• The Growth of American Thought, 1944
• Otto Rühle And The German Labour Movement, 1945
• Remember the Wrapper, 1945
• The Story of the German Working-Class Movement, 1947
• Anti-Bolshevik Communism in Germany, 1947
• Obsessions of Berlin, 1948
• Marx and Keynes, 1955
• Review of Paul Sweezy’s The Present As History, 1955
• Review of Monopoly in America, 1956
• The “new look” in economics, 1956
• Barghoorn on Soviet Russian Nationalism, 1956
• Marxism and the Latest Stage of Capitalism, 1957
• A Marxian Oddity — Review of Dunayevskaya, 1958
• Nationalism and Socialism, 1959
• Anton Pannekoek, 1962
• Karl Korsch: His Contribution to Marxism, 1962
• The Economics of Cybernation, 1962
• The Marxism of Karl Korsch, 1964
• Baran and Sweezy’s “Monopoly Capital”, 1966
• Arms and Capital, 1968
• Mandel’s Economics, 1969
• Marx and Keynes. The Limits of the Mixed Economy, 1969
• The American Economy: Crisis and Policy, 1971
• Ernest Mandel’s “Late Capitalism”, 1972
• Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory, 1974
• On Pannekoek and Workers Councils, Interview, 1975
• The New Capitalism And The Old Class Struggle, 1976
• Economics, Politics and The Age of Inflation, 1977
• On Crisis and Political Activity, Interview, 1977
• Rosa Luxemburg In Retrospect, 1978

Moishe Postone

• Bitburg: A Letter to the West German Left (From Radical America, Vol 19, No 5, 1985)
• Antisemitism and National Socialism. 1986.
• History and Helplessness: Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anticapitalism.
• History and Heteronomy: Critical Essays (2009).

Jean Paul Sartre

• Anti-Semite and Jew: An Exploration of the Etiology of Hate. 1946.

Other texts

Anarchist Federation: Against Nationalism.

An Anonymous Contribution To The Revolutionary Movement – Translated by M.L. Jordan

Hans-Dieter Bahr: The Class Structure of Machinery

Camila Bassi: The anti-imperialism of fools’: A cautionary story on the revolutionary left vanguard of England’s post-9/11 anti-war movement (PDF from ACME Journal website), ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(2), 113-137.  (2010)

Frere Dupont: Councilism, Solutionism & The Communist Critiqiue

Loren Goldner: Fictitious Capital and Contracted Social Reproduction Today; China and Permanent Revolution (2012) / Notes Toward a Critique of Maoism (2012) / Globalization of Capital, Globalization of Struggle (2012) / Anti-Capitalism or Anti-Imperialism? Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of A Reactionary Ideology: The Case of the Bolivian MNR (2011) / “Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925 (2009) / Fictitious Capital for Beginners: Imperialism, “Anti-Imperialism,” and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg (2007)

Herman Gorter: The World Revolution. 1924

Chris Gray: The State and Counter-revolution, 1972

Michael Heinrich: Invaders From Marx.

L’Insecurite Sociale: The Communist Tendency

Anselme Jappe: Whose Fault Is It?

Krisis: Manifesto Against Labour

Krisis: Crash Course (2009)

Alfred-Sohn-Rethel: Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology. [Extract. More extracts.]

Wine and Cheese: Public debt makes the state go round (2010)