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Free Download Matthew Day, "No Bosses, No Gods: Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion "
English | ISBN: 311106509X | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 7 MB
Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx is essential for reversing course-but it will take letting go of what most scholars think they know about him.

Free Download Simon Choat, "Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze"
English | 2010 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 0826442757, 1441185089 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Marx Through Post-Structuralism presents a thorough critical examination of the readings of Marx given by four post-structuralist thinkers, all key figures in Continental philosophy: Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. Arguing that both Marx and the post-structuralists seek to produce a genuinely materialist philosophy, the author aims to develop a better understanding of both Marx and post-structuralism and in so doing to reflect on the possibilities and problems for materialist philosophy more broadly.

Free Download Franck Fischbach, "Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History "
English | ISBN: 1399507664 | 2023 | 160 pages | PDF | 980 KB
Spinoza and Marx would seem to be two very opposed philosophers. Spinoza was interested in contemplating eternal truths of nature while Marx was interested in the history of capital.

Free Download George G Brenkert, "Marx’s Ethics of Freedom"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415649919, 0415555914 | EPUB | pages: 284 | 0.3 mb
This book reveals Marx’s moral philosophy and analyzes its nature. The author shows that there is an underlying system of ethics which runs the length and breadth of Marx’s thought. The book begins by discussing the methodological side of Marx’s ethics showing how Marx’s criticism of conventional morality and his views on historical materialism, determinism and ideology are compatible with having an ideological system of his own. In the light of contemporary social, moral and political philosophy the insights and defects of Marx’s major ethical themes are discussed.

Free Download Tony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Athar Hussain, Paul Q. Hirst, "Marx’s ‘Capital’ and Capitalism Today"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415555949, 0415649900 | EPUB | pages: 180 | 0.4 mb
This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx’s theory of value and considers the types of questions and modes of analysis to which this theory leads. In the second part the nature and implications of necessary economic ‘laws of tendency’ in the capitalist mode of production are covered. Finally there is an analysis of the role of class structure and economic agents in Marxist theory.

Free Download Harry Verhoeven, "Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032130806, 1032130792 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.7 mb
The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathers of postcolonial republics believed socialism could transform their societies. Yet what socialism meant in theory and in practice has always been highly heterogeneous and differed markedly from the European experience. African and Asian movements did not simply mimic the ideas and institutions of Soviet or European Marxists, but endeavoured to define their own, experimenting with a variety of interpretations and in the process adapting doctrines and templates to their unique contexts.

Free Download Darren Webb, "Marx, Marxism and Utopia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138719986, 0754611787 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.5 mb
This title was first published in 2000: This engaging new book suggests that Marx was right to reject ‘utopian socialism’ on the grounds that it undermined the principles of proletarian self-emancipation and self-determination. As a theoretician of the proletarian class, Marx sought to capture the spirit of revolution in a manner which precluded the need for utopian philanthropy and the messianic elitism which invariably accompanied it. In a powerful and original central argument, the book suggests that the categories which together define Marx’s own ‘utopia’ were nothing more than theoretical by-products of the models employed by Marx in order to supersede the need for utopianism. As such, Marx was an ‘accidental’ utopian. Rather than legitimating utopianism, however, the author argues that this conclusion reinforces the need to develop Marx’s anti-utopian project further. Emphasising the contemporary relevance of Marx’s original critique, the conclusion suggests that the future of socialism lies in its ability to harness, not the spirit of utopia, but the spirit of adventure.

Free Download Andrew Dole, "Reframing the Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud "
English | ISBN: 135006517X | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book revisits Paul Ricoeur’s classification of Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud as the "masters of suspicion", and provides a thought-provoking critique for critical religious studies scholars, as well as anyone working in critical theory more broadly. Whereas Ricoeur saw suspicion as a mode of interpretation, Andrew Dole argues that the method common to his "masters" is better understood as a mode of explanation. Dole replaces Ricoeur’s hermeneutics of suspicion with suspicious explanation, which claims the existence of hidden phenomena that are bad in some recognizable way. Each of the masters, Dole argues, offered a distinct kind of suspicious explanation.

Free Download Marx: Bolinda Beginner Guides (Audiobook)
English | July 03, 2012 | ASIN: B008H1ISVC | MP3@32 kbps | 7h 27m | 102.36 MB
Author: Andrew Collier
Narrator: Richard Aspel

Free Download Spencer A. Leonard, "Marx and Engels on Imperialism: Selected Journalism, 1856-62"
English | ISBN: 1498559239 | 2023 | 392 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1400 KB + 3 MB
For a little over a decade after the ignominious collapse of the Revolution of 1848, Karl Marx worked as a professional journalist. Writing from London for newspapers in America and, eventually, on the Continent, he continued while living in exile the analysis of the crisis of revolution that he first began in direct engagement with revolutionary events, most notably in The Class Struggles in France of 1850 and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte of 1852. In what became a vast body of material, through this journalistic work Marx elaborated the critical concept of "bonapartism" first abumbrated in the latter book. Continuing his effort to learn the lesson of 1848, Marx concentrated on the crisis of modern society and the new mass democratic state that emerged, in the absence of the dictatorship of the proletariat, to meet that crisis.