Karel Ludenhoff

Karel Ludenhoff is an Amsterdam-based labor activist and a writer on Marx’s critique of political economy whose essays have appeared in Logos and other journals.

Articles From This Author

Karel Ludenhoff

July 2, 2019 Length: 712 words

Italian Dockworkers Show Solidarity with Migrants

Summary: Genoa dockworkers stop weapons shipments and support migrants in the face of racist demagoguery from the far right — Editors

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Karel Ludenhoff

February 6, 2019 Length: 613 words

The Struggle in France Goes On!

Yellow Vests and key trade unions unite in large demonstrations against neoliberal policies of Macron government. Poster states: “The Future Belongs to Those Who Struggle” — Editors

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Karel Ludenhoff

September 24, 2018 Length: 11140 words

Marx, Socialism, and Ecology

Summary: Discussion of the larger theoretical implications of Kohei Saito’s Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy, Monthly Review Press, 2017. Fir…

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Karel Ludenhoff

January 17, 2018 Length: 507 words

Austrian Labour and Anti-Fascist Activists React to New Xenophobic and Anti-Social Coalition Government

On Saturday, January 13, about 70,000 people took part in a mass demonstration in Vienna against the new coalition government consisting of the ÖVP (Austrian People’s Party) and the FPÖ (Austrian Free…

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Karel Ludenhoff

September 29, 2017 Length: 1311 words

Turmoil in German Politics after Bundestag Elections

Summary –German’s Bundestag elections show how neoliberal centrism paves the way for the rise of right-wing politics while failures on the left to develop alternatives to capitalist society have stifl…

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Karel Ludenhoff

April 14, 2017 Length: 4429 words

In the Ocean of Crisis: Right-wing Populism and Awakening Fascism vs. Marxist-Humanism and Freedom

Summary: Examines right-wing populism and its similarities/differences with fascism, and the relationship of both to economic crisis, both today and in the writings of Trotsky, Grossmann, Sohn-Rethel,…

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Karel Ludenhoff

March 18, 2017 Length: 583 words

Dutch Elections: Another Repudiation of Rightwing Populism

Summary: Dutch elections repudiate populist Right and show gains by anti-populist left-of-centre parties, with the exception of the social democrats, who were discredited by their neoliberal policies…

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Karel Ludenhoff

December 6, 2016 Length: 440 words

Austria: A Clear Repudiation of Far Right

Summary: Austria’s presidential election showed a repudiation of the Far Right, of xenophobia, and of Islamophobia, as well as the duplicity of the mainstream Austrian People’s Party — Editors

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WRITINGS OF RAYA

Karel Ludenhoff

March 4, 2016 Length: 1850 words

Further Discussion on Action & Analysis

Summary: This article responds to Hamid Assian’s “On Action & Analysis,” published here on Feb. 11  and to the comment on it and on theory and practice by Mia Carlsen — Editors

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Books translated by this author

Peter Hudis,
Peter Linebaugh,
Karl Marx

Critique of the Gotha Program (New Translation & New Introduction)

Books written by this author

Kevin B. Anderson,
David Black,
Heather A. Brown,
Kieran Durkin,
Peter Hudis,
Ndindi Kitonga,
Karel Ludenhoff,
Paul Mason,
Rodolfo Mondolfo,
Frédéric Monferrand,
Lilia D. Monzó,
Adrienne Rich,
Alessandra Spano

Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism: Race, Class, Gender, and the Dialectics of Liberation

Events from this author

[[Europe]] A Planet at Risk – Ecosocialism and What “Sustainability” Really Means

May 16, 2022
19:00 GMT/20:00 CET

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[[London]] Paul Mason, Alessandra Spano, Karel Ludenhoff, and David Black on Raya Dunayevskaya’s Intersectional Marxism, with introductory remarks by Kieran Durkin

February 17, 2021
19:00-21:00 GMT

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