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, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of (…)
, by PARKER Ian
Ian Parker reviews a new book about the work of Ernest Mandel.
Manuel Kellner, a Fourth Internationalist comrade in Germany, had the good fortune to be able to write his doctoral thesis on the work of the Belgian Trotskyist activist and theoretician Ernest Mandel. Now here it is: Against (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Socialist scholar and activist Ernest Mandel was born one hundred years ago, on April 5, 1923. A ’Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent’, he was a militant and scholar, writing some of the most significant works of Marxist theory of the second half of the twentieth century.
Mandel was (…)
Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.
Belgian economist and radical thinker Ernest (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
Born on this day a century ago, Ernest Mandel was one of the major political thinkers of his age. From his teenage activism in the anti-Nazi resistance to his final days, Mandel was an uncompromising defender of socialist ideals and working-class interests.
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, by PARKER Ian
Introduction to Ernest Mandel, Introduction to Marxist Theory - selected writings, Publication date: 26 July 2021, Resistance Books, 306pages; 140x216mm, RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print). ISBN 978-0-902869-65-3 (print) e-ISBN 978-0-902869-64-6 (e-book)
So, it wasn’t the death of capitalism that (…)
, by KEREVAN George
Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.
It is now 25 years since the death of Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), one of the 20th century’s most engaging and original economists. Economics is not (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Concern for the environment appeared strongly in Mandel’s writings only from the 1970s. It hardly appears, for example, in Marxist Economic Theory (1962). It is true that we already find, in this “inaugural” work, the idea of “stopping growth” under socialism: “When society has a supply of (…)
, by KELLNER Manuel
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), who died a quarter of a century ago, has left us a significant theoretical legacy. It is unavoidable for anyone who wishes to make a balance sheet of the 20th century and contribute to the elaboration of revolutionary perspectives for the 21st century.
The red (…)
, by DE JONG Alex
This year marks 25 years since Ernest Mandel died. Mandel was one of the most significant Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1982, he was central to founding our Institute. A prolific scholar and activist until the end of his life, Mandel wrote dozens of books and (…)
, by HUSSON Michel
A quarter of a century after the death of Ernest Mandel, this article is not intended as a tribute. In the spirit of living Marxism that he embodied, we will limit ourselves rather to showing how his economic writings are still relevant, while sketching the questions, old or new, that they (…)
, by STUTJE Jan Willem
Jan Willem Stutje describes Ernest Mandel’s experiences in Berlin with Rudi Dutschke and on the barricades in Paris during 1968.
Tariq Ali, Alain Krivine, and Ernest Madnel (l-r).
Jan Willem Stutje’s Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred , published by Verso in a translation by Christopher (…)
, by PALMER Bryan D.
Review of JAN WILLEM STUTJE. Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred. Verso, London [etc.] 2009. 460 pp. $34.95.
Biographies of revolutionary Marxists should not be written by the faint of heart. The difficulties are daunting. Which revolutionary tradition is to be given pride of place? Of (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
A review of Jan Willem Stutje, “Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred”, London 2009, Verso, (translated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker), 392 pages.
This is the first systematic biography of the main leader and theorist of the Fourth International after 1945, who was, as noted by (…)
, by WALD Alan
Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred By Jan Willem Stutje Translated by Christopher Beck & Peter Drucker. London: Verso, 2009, 392 pages, $25 hardback.
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THE GERMAN NEW Left activist Rudi Dutshcke declared just prior to his death in 1979 that his (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
Phil Hearse reviews ‘Ernest Mandel – A Rebel’s Dream Deferred’ by Jan Willem Stutje (Verso 2009).
Jan Willem Stutje has taken on an enormous task in writing this biography, and probably an impossible one. To evaluate Ernest Mandel means evaluating the revolutionary left in the second half of (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Ernest Mandel’s Introduction au marxisme [“Introduction to Marxism” tittled in English From Class Society to Communism] has been and remains for many activists a reference work. Thirty years after its publication, in 1974, Daniel Bensaïd looks back at one of the most read book of Mandel.
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, by POST Charles
The emergence and growth of bureaucracy, the non-propertied officialdom of various organizations, over the last two hundred years has been the subject of considerable discussion among social scientists. Conventional, bourgeois sociology argues that bureau¬cratic hierarchies are an unavoidable (…)
, by ACHCAR Gilbert
Ernest Mandel died on the 20th of July 1995, in the middle of the last decade of the 20th century. This was a time of ebb for the world Marxist movement: the neoliberal offensive of global capitalism was so pervasive that, even though they owed their election to a backlash against its effects, (…)
, by NGO Manh Lan
Paper prepared for conference, November 2003.
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I- Over the last twenty years or so, we have witnessed repeated short-term business cycles followed by relatively fast recoveries. More surprising was the upturn in the leading economy of the United States (…)
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