Historical Materialism


Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics
Theory As History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (Historical Materialism)
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism
The Communist Manifesto
The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy
A Marxist Philosophy of Language (Historical Materialism)
The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
Simone de Beauvoir
THE theory of historical materialism has brought to light some most important truths. Humanity is not an animal species, it is a historical reality.
Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Evgeny Pashukanis
Every ideology dies together with the social relations which produced it. This final disappearance is, however, preceded by a moment when the ideology, suffering the blows of the critique directed at it, loses its ability to veil and conceal the social relations from which it emanated. The exposure of the roots of an ideology is a sure sign of its imminent end. For, as Lassalle said: "The dawning of a new age always consists only in the knowledge attained about the true nature of the preceding r ...more
Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism

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Marx's Capital Volumes I, II, III (Study Group - 2020 and beyond) We see symptoms of crises all around us, from the immediate "public health" pandemic of COVID19 …more
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