Good "Neo-Marxists" to read - suggestions?

[commie kg]

What are some of the Neo-Marxist authors out on the web that I can read? I've been interested in looking at some Neo-Marxist philosophy.

Thanks!

[Hesh]

I need a frickin' degree to keep up around here. sorry.

[commie kg]

Quote: from Hesh on 11:31 pm on June 16, 2003
I need a frickin' degree to keep up around here. sorry.

After awhile you'll feel like you have one. You learn alot.

[MJM]

Not sure if she's a "neo marxist" or not but Raya dunayevskaya is worth a read.

http://www.newsandletters.org/Raya_Dunayevskaya.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/index.htm

[praxis1966]

I would highly recomend Paolo Friere. Even though his best work was done in the mid-70s, he still considered one of the "Latter Day Saints" of socialist theory.

His works Pedagogy of the Opressed (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0826412769/qid=1056170658/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-1418030-6117746?v=glance&s=books) and Education for Critical Consciousness (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0816492093/ref=pd_sim_books_3/102-1418030-6117746?v=glance&s=books) are probably the best. Start with Pedagogy, as it's a good introduction to his theory and commonly considered his masterwork.

He's written a ton, though, so you could probably spend the better part of a year on just him.

Be prepared, however. Most find him an exceedingly difficult read.

[abstractmentality]

Immanuel Wallerstein. He wrote the quote in my signature. I have read his book Historical Capitalism. Here are a few quotes from that book:

"Historical capitalism, is, thus, that concrete, time-bounded, space-bounded integrated locus of productive activities within which the endless accumulation of capital has been the economic objective or 'law' that has governed or prevailed in fundamental economic activity. It is that social system in which those who have operated by such rules have had such great impact on the whole as to create conditions wherein the other have been forced to conform to the patterns or to suffer the consequences. It is that social system in which the scope of these rules (the law of value) has grown ever wider, the enforcers of these rules ever more intransigent, the penetration of these rules into the social fabric ever greater, even while social opposition to these rules has grown louder and more organized." (p. 18-19)

"Ethnicity created a cultural crust which consolidated the patterns of semi-proletarian household structures. That the emergence of such ethnicity also played a politically-divisive role for the working classes has been a political bonus for the employers...." (p. 28)

However, as can be seen in my signature, i dont think he likes the term "marxist." He also co-wrote a book called Antisystemic movements with a few other people. i have read the beginning of that, and wish to get back to that at a later time.