Marx Myths & Legends

Introduction to “Marx Myths & Legends”

Texts

i. Myths Conflating Marx with “State Socialism”

1. A Manifesto of Emancipation, by Paresh Chattopadhyay

2. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Marx and Engels, by Hal Draper



ii. Myths about Marx’s Character

3. Marx and the working-class, by Francis Wheen

4. Marxs Illegitimate Son, by Terrell Carver

5. Marx and the Economic-Jew Stereotype, by Hal Draper

6. Reading the “unreadable” Marx, by Humphrey McQueen



iii. Myths conflating Marx with 19th Century Socialism and Positivism

7. The Tradition of Scientific Marxism, by John Holloway

8. Karl Marx and Religion, by Cyril Smith



iv. The Myth of Dialectical Materialism

9. The Origins of Dialectical Materialism, by Z. A. Jordan 10. The Legend of Marx, or "Engels the founder", by Maximilien Rubel



v. Other Myths of Marxism

11. Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?, by Harry Cleaver

12. The Myth of Marx’s Economic Determinism, by Peter Stillman

13. Marx and Materialism, by Cyril Smith

14. The Myth of Simple Commodity Production, by Christopher J. Arthur

vi. Recent Myths

15. Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and a Myth of Marxology, by Christopher J. Arthur

16. Ideology and False Consciousness, by Joseph McCarney

17. The creatures,too,must become free: Marx and the Animal/Human Distinction, by Lawrence Wilde



Authors

Christopher J. Arthur

Terrell Carver

Paresh Chattopadhyay

Harry Cleaver

Hal Draper

John Holloway

Z. A. Jordan

Joseph McCarney

Humphrey McQueen

Maximilien Rubel

Cyril Smith

Peter Stillman

Francis Wheen

Lawrence Wilde

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Comments to Andy Blunden.