Looking for a Marxist reading of...

[The New Manifesto]

Hey, Not sure where to put this, so i thought this subfourm might work. Does anyone know where i could find a Marxist reading of Kant, or a "Left Hegel Reader" or anything of that nature?

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

By 'Left Hegelian' do you mean the 'Young Hegelians'?

And, by 'Marxist reading of Kant', do you mean commentary on Kant written by Marxists, or Marxists who have used Kant's ideas to refashion Marxism?

[The New Manifesto]

By 'Left Hegelian' do you mean the 'Young Hegelians'?

And, by 'Marxist reading of Kant', do you mean commentary on Kant written by Marxists, or Marxists who have used Kant's ideas to refashion Marxism?

Yes, im looking for some 'Young Hegelian' work. I understand that you are not the biggest fan of dialectics, but perhaps that you have a suggestion all the same.

And i believe I'm mainly looking for the former, "commentary on Kant written by Marxists", but the latter is also interesting.

thanks ahead

[BakuninFan]

Yuck, Hegelianism...:lol:

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

Sounds pretty obvious, but have you checked this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hegelians

Try these, too:

http://www.nonserviam.com/stirner/yh/main.html

http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10900

But, you should find this the most usefeul:

http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/hegelyng.html

I'll give the Kantian link some thought.

[The New Manifesto]

Sounds pretty obvious, but have you checked this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Hegelians

Try these, too:

http://www.nonserviam.com/stirner/yh/main.html

http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10900

But, you should find this the most usefeul:

http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/hegelyng.html

I'll give the Kantian link some thought.

Yes, i have been to wikipedia :cool:. And thanks a bunch for the links.

[Dave B]

If you want a short crash course on Hegel I seem to remember that the following was quite good


http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1891/11/hegel-dun.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/plekhanov/1891/11/hegel-dun.htm)

There is also from Hegel to Marx by Sidney Hook, it is a bit dense and soupy perhaps but not totally unreadable if you take it slowly.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

^^^And when you have read that, try this:

http://anti-dialectics.co.uk/Outline_of_errors_Hegel_committed_01.htm

By the way, I think this thread should either be in Learning or in Research.

[spiltteeth]

Transcritique: On Kant and Marx by Kojin Karatani is excellent.

A review by Fredric Jameson:
"An immensely ambitious theoretical edifice in which new relations between Kant and Marx are established, as well as a new kind of synthesis between Marxism and anarchism. The book is timely from both practical and theoretical perspectives, and stands up well against a tradition of Marx exegesis that runs from Rosdolsky and Korsch to Althusser and Tony Smith."

Here's the back cover :
Kojin Karatani's Transcritique introduces a startlingly new dimension to Immanuel Kant's transcendental critique by using Kant to read Karl Marx and Marx to read Kant. In a direct challenge to standard academic approaches to both thinkers, Karatani's transcritical readings discover the ethical roots of socialism in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and a Kantian critique of money in Marx's Capital.

Karatani reads Kant as a philosopher who sought to wrest metaphysics from the discredited realm of theoretical dogma in order to restore it to its proper place in the sphere of ethics and praxis. With this as his own critical model, he then presents a reading of Marx that attempts to liberate Marxism from longstanding Marxist and socialist presuppositions in order to locate a solid theoretical basis for a positive activism capable of gradually superseding the trinity of Capital-Nation-State.

As far as a Marxist reading of Hegel THE best book is Kojeve's intro to Hegel
which can be read at scribd for free here :
http://www.scribd.com/doc/10263520/Intro-to-Hegel-Kojeve

[makesi]

Lucio Colletti was a Kantian Marxist.

Marcuse wrote about Hegel and Adorno about Kant.

[mikelepore]

Engels discussed "the thing in itself" in his introduction to _Socialism: Utopian and Scientific_.

[Rosa Lichtenstein]

^^^And made a right pig's ear of it, too.

[revolt4thewin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5w4iu9q5Mo
Clinton is at it again.