The International Marxist-Humanist
For a Humanist Alternative to Capitalism
A Voice from India: Race, Caste and the Limits of Class Reductionism
Summary: A report by an Indian factory worker on how the struggles against racism and attacks on immigrants call for developing a conception of socialism and communism that avoids the pitfall of twentieth century Marxism. It is translated from the Hindi by Arvind Ghosh — Editors
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Secretive Layoffs Undermine U.S. Census
Summary: Secretive layoffs of census enumerators undermines census count of people of color, immigrants, and to poor, to the advantage of Republicans and to the detriment of the census workers — Editors
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Toward the Unification of Theory and Practice in the International Marxist-Humanist Organization
Summary: Discusses challenges, possibilities, and future aims for the IMHO as an organization. Adapted from an organizational report delivered to the 2020 Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization in July – Editors.
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Freedom of political prisoners; revocation of death sentence; support for workers’ struggles
Summary: An urgent statement, signed by many Iranian groups in exile, in defense of political prisoners, some in danger of execution. We republish this in support and solidarity. – Editors.
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Ecology and Life in the Pandemic: Capital’s Treadmill of Growth and Destruction
Summary: Report to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, slightly updated — Editors
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Why Prison Abolition? Why Now? Behavior Modification Control at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility
Summary: This report by a longtime Black political prisoner in Indiana exposes the mental and physical mechanisms being used to try to prevent prisoners from uniting against their oppressors. It concludes with a brief auto-biographical sketch on why prison abolition is imperative.
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COVID-19 and resistance in Brazil: life-making, memory, and challenges in seeding an alternative future
Summary: Report presented to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization. First appeared in New Politics Online, here: https://newpol.org/covid-19-and-resistance-in-brazil-life-making-memory-and-challenges-in-seeding-an-alternative-future/ — Editors
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Battle of Ideas: Race, Class, Gender, and Revolution in Theory and in Practice
Summary: Report to the July 2020 Interim Convention of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, slightly updated — Editors
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COVID: Which side are we on?
Summary: An examination of how class divisions and opposed concepts of freedom underpin the radically divergent approaches to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe and the U.S. — Editors
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Solidarity is the key to victory!
Summary: Labor dimension of the protests in Belarus against a fraudulent election and the longstanding authoritarian regime of Alexander Lukashenko — Editors
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Rosa Luxemburg’s Birds
Summary: Besides being a revolutionary and one of the most creative post-Marx Marxist thinkers, Rosa Luxemburg was a dedicated birdwatcher. Her notes on birds may help us reveal an aspect of her approach to life, nature, and the new society – Editors.
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Marxist-Humanism in the Heat of the Present
Summary: Presentation given at the International Marxist-Humanist Organization’s 2020 Convention in July. Discusses the concept of a dialectical and revolutionary humanism and its relevance to the present moment– Editors.
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Recent Publications of Interest
A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity
By: Lilia D. Monzó
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography
By: J. P. Nettl
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics
By: David Alderson,
Kevin B. Anderson,
Timothy Brennan,
Barbara Epstein,
Robert Spencer
The Transition from Capitalism: Marxist Perspectives
By: Saeed Rahnema
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2
By: Rosa Luxemburg
Marx on Gender and the Family (Turkish edition)
By: Heather Brown
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Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
and Other Marxist-Humanist Classics
Draft Thesis: The Turning Point
The assessment of Goldwater in this draft thesis is referenced in the recent International Marxist-Humanist Organization article, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Overcoming Capitalism.
Dunayevskaya Collection
We are linking to the online version of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, which makes her germinal writings more widely available than before. (Her books have long been on our Literature Pages.)