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Telling the Truth About Class
TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT CLASS G. M. TAMÁS ne of the central questions of social theory has been the relationship Obetween class and knowledge, and this has also been a crucial question in the history of socialism. Differences between people – acting and knowing subjects – may influence our view of the chances of valid cognition. If there are irreconcilable discrepancies between people’s positions, going perhaps as far as incommensurability, then unified and rational knowledge resulting from a reasoned dialogue among persons is patently impossible. The Humean notion of ‘passions’, the Nietzschean notions of ‘resentment’ and ‘genealogy’, allude to the possible influence of such an incommensurability upon our ability to discover truth. Class may be regarded as a problem either in epistemology or in the philosophy of history, but I think that this separation is unwarranted, since if we separate epistemology and the philosophy of history (which is parallel to other such separations characteristic of bourgeois society itself) we cannot possibly avoid the rigidly-posed conundrum known as relativism. In speak- ing about class (and truth, and class and truth) we are the heirs of two socialist intellectual traditions, profoundly at variance with one another, although often intertwined politically and emotionally. I hope to show that, up to a point, such fusion and confusion is inevitable. All versions of socialist endeavour can and should be classified into two principal kinds, one inaugurated by Rousseau, the other by Marx. The two have opposite visions of the social subject in need of liberation, and these visions have determined everything from rarefied epistemological posi- tions concerning language and consciousness to social and political attitudes concerning wealth, culture, equality, sexuality and much else. -
Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society
STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF KNOWLEDGE Tai, Van der Steen & Van Dongen (eds) Dongen & Van Steen der Van Tai, Edited by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Ways of Viewing ScienceWays and Society Anton Pannekoek: Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Studies in the History of Knowledge This book series publishes leading volumes that study the history of knowledge in its cultural context. It aspires to offer accounts that cut across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, while being sensitive to how institutional circumstances and different scales of time shape the making of knowledge. Series Editors Klaas van Berkel, University of Groningen Jeroen van Dongen, University of Amsterdam Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Edited by Chaokang Tai, Bart van der Steen, and Jeroen van Dongen Amsterdam University Press Cover illustration: (Background) Fisheye lens photo of the Zeiss Planetarium Projector of Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo in action. (Foreground) Fisheye lens photo of a portrait of Anton Pannekoek displayed in the common room of the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy. Source: Jeronimo Voss Cover design: Coördesign, Leiden Lay-out: Crius Group, Hulshout isbn 978 94 6298 434 9 e-isbn 978 90 4853 500 2 (pdf) doi 10.5117/9789462984349 nur 686 Creative Commons License CC BY NC ND (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0) The authors / Amsterdam University Press B.V., Amsterdam 2019 Some rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, any part of this book may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise). -
Further Reading
Further Reading A bibliography on the communist left in the Netherlands cannot be limited to the sources and studies existing either in the Dutch language or in the Netherlands. The merging of the kapd current, descended from the Spartakusbund – with the Gorter and Pannekoek current – gave birth to an international revolutionary current, from 1920 onwards. This current developed simultaneously in a number of countries: Bulgaria, Russia, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Great Britain; then – during the 1930s – in France, Belgium, Denmark and in the United States. The Dutch communist left must be placed in this international context, which shows something of the state of the subject. The existence of archives and documents, dealing with German-Dutch left- communism, in almost ten languages, gave us an idea of the scope of the research-work. In this updated bibliography, we shall deliberately confine ourselves to a few coun- tries, more particularly the Netherlands and Germany. Archival Sources Russian State-Archive of Socio-Political History (Rossiiskii gosudarstvennyi arkhiv sot- sial’no-politicheskoi istorii, rgaspi, Russian Centre for Preservation and Study of Re- cords of Modern History): Dossiers 488–93: Comintern congresses; 495: Exekutiv Komi- tee der Kommunistischen Internationale (ekki); 497: Amsterdam Bureau; 499: West- Europäisches Büro (web); 581: Wijnkoop archives; 626: Rutgers archives. Het Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (riod, Amsterdam): The State-Institute for War Documentation, in Amsterdam, includes an important dossier on the Marx- Lenin-Luxemburg Front led by Henk Sneevliet as well as illegal publications of this group (web: http://www.riod.nl/collecties.html). iisg (Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam). The website of the International Institute of Social History gives up-to-date descriptions of its archives: https://socialhistory.org/en/archives. -
Frederik Van Eedens Innerlijke Evolutie: Een Analyse Van Zijn Zelfnarratieven (1885-1890)
Frederik van Eedens innerlijke evolutie: een analyse van zijn zelfnarratieven (1885-1890) Scriptie Master Maatschappijgeschiedenis Specialisatie Geschiedenis van Nederland in Mondiale Context Naam: Kevin van der Poel (350131) Datum: 19 augustus 2015 Scriptiebegeleider: M.B. Klerk MA Tweede lezer: Dr. R.J. Adriaansen 1 Frederik van Eedens innerlijke evolutie: een analyse van zijn zelfnarratieven (1885-1890) Kevin van der Poel 2 Inhoudsopgave: Hoofdstuk 1: Inleiding 4 1.1. Korte biografische schets 7 1.2. Fin de siècle 9 1.3. Bronnen 14 1.4. Methode van onderzoek 18 1.5. Indeling 20 Hoofdstuk 2: Een kennismaking 22 2.1. De geneeskunde 22 2.2. Het sociaal idealisme 28 Hoofdstuk 3: Het dagboek 33 Hoofdstuk 4: De persoonlijke correspondentie 40 4.1. De Nieuwe Gids 40 4.2. De eerzucht 43 4.3. Willem Kloos 45 4.4. Albert Verwey 51 4.5. Lodewijk van Deyssel 57 Hoofdstuk 5: Conclusie 63 Bronnen en bibliografie 66 3 Hoofstuk 1: Inleiding Frederik Willem van Eeden (1860-1932) is een bekend Nederlands schrijver.1 Van Eedens boek De kleine Johannes (1885) was een internationale bestseller en Van de koele meren des doods (1900) behoort tot de klassieken van de Nederlandse literatuur.2 Wat mogelijk minder bekend is, is dat van weinig Nederlandse schrijvers zoveel ‘zelfnarratieven’ bewaard zijn gebleven als van Van Eeden.3 Een zelfnarratief is een schriftelijke of mondelinge weergave van gebeurtenissen, waarbij de lezer zich inhoudelijk gesteld ziet tegenover het ‘Ik’, of het ‘Zelf’, als schrijvend en beschrijvend subject.4 Van Eeden schreef onder meer een autobiografie, een dagboek en een dromenboek. -
What Is to Be Done? Leninism, Anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution Today
Chapter 1 What is to be Done? Leninism, anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution today Werner Bonefeld and Sergio Tischler I Of one thing we can be certain. The ideologies of the twentieth century will disappear completely. This has been a lousy century. It has been filled with dogmas, dogmas that one after another have cost us time, suffering, and much injustice (Garcia Marquez, 1990). Amid the resurgence of anti-capitalist movements across the globe, the centenary of Lenin’s What is to be Done? in 2002 has largely gone unnoticed. Leninism has fallen on hard times – and rightly so. It leaves a bitter taste of a revolution whose heroic struggle turned into a nightmare. The indifference to Leninism is understandable. What, however, is disturbing is the contemporary disinterest in the revolutionary project. What does anti-capitalism in its contemporary form of anti- globalization mean if it is not a practical critique of capitalism and what does it wish to achieve if its anti-capitalism fails to espouse the revolutionary project of human emancipation? Anti-capitalist indifference to revolution is a contradiction in terms. Rather then freeing the theory and practice of revolution from Leninism, its conception of revolutionary organization in the form of the party, and its idea of the state whose power is to be seized, as an instrument of revolution, remain uncontested. Revolution seems to mean Leninism, now appearing in moderated form as Trotskyism. Orthodox Marxism invests great energy in its attempt to incorporate the 2 What is to be Done? class struggle into preconceived conceptions of organization, seeking to render them manageable under the direction of the party. -
Paul Mattick
PAUL MATTICK READER P RINCIPLES, PROPOSITIONS & D ISCUSSIONS FOR L AND & FREEDOM An introductory word to the anarchive Anarchy is Order! I must Create a System or be enslav d by another Man s. I will not Reason & Compare: my business is to Create (William Blake) During the 19th century, anarchism has develloped as a result of a social current which aims for freedom and happiness. A number of factors since World War I have made this movement, and its ideas, dissapear little by little under the dust of history. After the classical anarchism of which the Spanish Revolution was one of the last representatives a new kind of resistance was founded in the sixties which claimed to be based (at least partly) on this anarchism. However this resistance is often limited to a few (and even then partly misunderstood) slogans such as Anarchy is order , Property is theft ,... Information about anarchism is often hard to come by, monopolised and intellectual; and therefore visibly disapearing.The anarchive or anarchist archive Anarchy is Order ( in short A.O) is an attempt to make the principles, propositions and discussions of this tradition available again for anyone it concerns. We believe that these texts are part of our own heritage. They don t belong to publishers, institutes or specialists. These texts thus have to be available for all anarchists an other people interested. That is one of the conditions to give anarchism a new impulse, to let the new anarchism outgrow the slogans. This is what makes this project relevant for us: we must find our roots to be able to renew ourselves. -
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Het festijn van tachtig De vervulling van heel groote dingen scheen nabij Enno Endt bron Enno Endt, Het festijn van tachtig. De vervulling van heel groote dingen scheen nabij. Nijgh & Van Ditmar. Amsterdam 1990 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/endt001fest01_01/colofon.htm © 2008 dbnl / erven Enno Endt 7 ...maar eenmaal leek haar doel Een effen duinvijver, een vogelpoel, Die 'n zomerdag niets doet dan spiegelen - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Daar stond ze nu en dronk, De lippen in 't hol handje - 't water wonk Met de wenkbrauwen waar de druppel viel, In 't lichtgroen gras; nauwsluitend om de hiel Perste het water op, 't werd stiller weer En heel stil, toen sloeg ze de oogen neer En zag zich zelve. En een blijde schrik Verstelde haar, het werd een oogenblik Waarin ze niet dacht, vol van zoet gevoel Van dartelheid en overmoed - en koel Lag nog de wel - schromend deed ze een stap En zag haar eigen blozen, voor een lap Weerspiegelend blauw als een rood robijn Op hofgewaad. Dat was voor 't oog festijn Om naar te zien... Uit de eerste zang van Gorters Mei Enno Endt, Het festijn van tachtig 8 Jac. van Looy nodigt Karel Alberdingk Thijm per briefkaart uit; ‘De man hierboven is Jong Holland’ (1884) Enno Endt, Het festijn van tachtig 9 Hoofdstuk I Het begin Gemeenschappelijk verzet ‘Daar steekt de Nieuwe Gids van wal. Paap aan 't roer. Kloos peinzend op de plecht. Albert in de mast. “En 't losgedonderd schot wenscht heil aan 't vaderland!”’p. 9-1 ZO begon het. Zo werd het begin onder woorden gebracht op een briefkaart. -
Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory
HECEMONY AND REVOLUTION ANTONIO GRAMSCI'S POLITICAL AND CULTURAL THEORY WALTER L. ADAMSON Hegemony and Revolution w ALTER L. ADAMSON HEGEMONY AND REVOLUTION A Study of Antonio Gramsci's Political and Cultural Theory UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley. Los Angl'lrs. London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England Cl 1980 by The Regents of the University of California Printed in the United States of America I 234 5 6 7 8 9 Library of Conlrrss Cata[otin, in Publication Data Adamson, Walter L. Hc,emony and ,""vo[ution. Antonio Gram",j's political and cultural theory Bibliography: p. Includes indu I. Gramsci. Antonio. 189[-1937. 2. Gram""i. Antonio, 1�91-19J7-Polil;cal science. I. Title. tlX288.G7A�8 320.3')2"0924 79-64478 [SBN O-S2O-{lJ92U To my mother and ja(her and fO (he memory oj my grand/others Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE 1. The Formative Years 15 Cuhure and Politics in Post-Risorgimento italy 19 Between Croce and La Voce 26 Organizing a Collective Will 34 2. The "New Order" and II.f Col/apse 43 Gramsci's Russia and the Road to Marx 44 The �New Order" in Turin 50 Revolt in the PSI 64 3. FO!;ch.. ", Qlld Revolution in the WeSl 71 United Front and Fusion 73 The Meaning of Fascism 77 A Revolutionary Reassessment 82 Chairman Gramsci and the Southern Question 90 PARTTWQ 4. Philosophy as Political £dUc"ulion 105 Plato, Hegel, and Marx 106 The Second International and Its Critics 112 Bukharin. -
Herman Gorter Open Letter to Comrade Lenin (1921)
Herman Gorter Open letter to comrade Lenin (1921) INTRODUCTION by WILDCAT The current period is one in which Communism is supposed to be bankrupt. The recent events in China and the open acceptance of market economics and political democracy by most of Eastern Europe are used by the Western media to convince us that the epoch of communism, which they say began with the Russian revolution of October 1917, is coming to an end. Yet, shortly after that event critics had already begun to doubt the communist credentials of the new rulers of Russia. From 1921 especially, tendencies emerged which saw the social systems of Russia, and later the rest of Eastern Europe, China, etc., as another form of capitalism. Herman Gorter belonged to one such tendency, the German Communist Left. For all its errors, his Open Letter is a communist pamphlet. And its target is unequivocally capitalist. This is the full text of one the the landmark texts of the Communist Left: Herman Gorter's Open Letter To Comrade Lenin. Dirt-cheap copies of Lenin's notorious diatribe against the Communist Left, "Left-Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder, have been churned out by the ton by the state presses of Moscow and Peking, whereas Gorter's methodical destruction of Lenin's arguments has languished in near-total obscurity, at least to the English-speaking world, for nearly seventy years. Its reappearance is long overdue. The Open Letter was published in French by Spartacus, Paris, in 1979. The original Russian text of Lenin's pamphlet was dated April- May 1920, and during the next few months it was published in various other languages. -
Historical Materialism Book Series
Historical Materialism Book Series BOOK SERIES Historical Materialism Book Series Editorial Board: Sébastien Budgen, Paris, David Broder, Rome, Steve Edwards, London, Juan Grigera, London, Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam, Peter Thomas, London Editorial co-ordinator: Danny Hayward For more information please visit brill.com/hm ISSN 1570-1522 The HM book series Since HM published its first volume in 2002, the series has established itself as the most significant English- language publishing venture of the Marxist left. Amongst the first hundred volumes are classic works by José Aricó, Pierre Broué, Paul Levi, Evgenii Preobrazhensky and Lise Vogel. Alongside them are important collections of historical documents, edited collections, and influential monographs from literally dozens of contemporary Marxist thinkers. The series encompasses works of revolutionary history, economic theory, political analysis, examinations of prominent figures in the Marxist tradition, philosophical works on time, Hegel, Spinoza, Gramsci and Althusser; studies of Marx’s method; outstanding historical work on modes of production and new writing on art. The HM series spans the range of approaches that have made up the complex history of critical Marxist politics and theory, from Second-International thinkers to Bolshevism through to contemporary work in every significant field of contemporary Marxist research. The series rejects narrow and sectarian traditions, engaging critical Marxism in its rich diversity and promoting fresh approaches. HM is particularly proud of our translation programme, which is making available to English readers the best Marxist work from around the world. This much-needed project is reinvigorating intellectual debate on the left. We have issued books originally published in eleven different countries, with more to come in the near future. -
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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Loughborough University Institutional Repository This item was submitted to Loughborough University as a PhD thesis by the author and is made available in the Institutional Repository (https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/) under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions. For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ Towards a Libertarian Communism: A Conceptual History of the Intersections between Anarchisms and Marxisms By Saku Pinta Loughborough University Submitted to the Department of Politics, History and International Relations in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Approximate word count: 102 000 1. CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY This is to certify that I am responsible for the work submitted in this thesis, that the original work is my own except as specified in acknowledgments or in footnotes, and that neither the thesis nor the original work contained therein has been submitted to this or any other institution for a degree. ……………………………………………. ( Signed ) ……………………………………………. ( Date) 2 2. Thesis Access Form Copy No …………...……………………. Location ………………………………………………….……………...… Author …………...………………………………………………………………………………………………..……. Title …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Status of access OPEN / RESTRICTED / CONFIDENTIAL Moratorium Period :…………………………………years, ending…………../…………20………………………. Conditions of access approved by (CAPITALS):…………………………………………………………………… Supervisor (Signature)………………………………………………...…………………………………... Department of ……………………………………………………………………...………………………………… Author's Declaration : I agree the following conditions: Open access work shall be made available (in the University and externally) and reproduced as necessary at the discretion of the University Librarian or Head of Department. It may also be digitised by the British Library and made freely available on the Internet to registered users of the EThOS service subject to the EThOS supply agreements. -
Dagboek 1878-1923. Deel 3: 1911-1918
Dagboek 1878-1923. Deel 3: 1911-1918 Frederik van Eeden editie H.W. van Tricht bron Frederik van Eeden, Dagboek 1878-1923. Deel 3: 1911-1918 (ed. H.W. van Tricht). Tjeenk Willink/Noorduijn B.V., Culemborg 1971 Zie voor verantwoording: http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/eede003hwva05_01/colofon.htm © 2008 dbnl / erven H.W. van Tricht 1147 [1911] 6 januari Ik vond overeenstemming tusschen hetgeen ik over muziek schreef, over de weinige ethische werking van de beste muziek - en wat Tolstoy en Lady Welby er over zeiden. Tolstoy in de Kreuzersonate. ▫ Muziek veredelt niet, ook de beste niet. Zij is uiting van het edelste, maar heeft geen levende kracht. Ze schept geen ethische sfeer, doet niet handelen. Ze sleept mede, bekoort, doet genieten, - maar verdooft en maakt indolent. Menschen die gestadig in muziek leven gaan ethisch, dus in levenskracht, achteruit. ▫ En poëzie doet hetzelfde, zoolang het literatuur is. ▫ De wereld van musici en literaten wordt een stinkend moeras. ▫ Het drama alleen, het sterke, gezonde drama werkt bevrijdend en versterkend. ▫ Daarin ligt misschien mijn antipathie jegens de opera en Wagner. Daarin heeft de muziek het drama overweldigd en gecorrodeerd. ▫ Muziek is als de verboden vrucht, wij zijn er niet rijp voor. Ik voel nu sterker dan ooit dat het Drama mijn terrein moet zijn. Echec of niet, ik ga voort met dramatische productie. ▫ Irene's Ballingschap. ▫ De Wereld-unie. ▫ De Oprechten. En scheiding van Muziek en Dramatiek. Dat staat vooraan. Dat wil zeggen: een samengaan - maar ieder in zijn eigen aard en wezen. zondag 8 januari Eergister sprak ik in Alkmaar.