Libertarian Marxism

Libertarian Marxism is a broad scope of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian and libertarian aspects of Marxism. Early currents of libertarian Marxism such as left communism emerged in opposition to Marxism–Leninism.^{[citation needed]}

Libertarian Marxism includes currents such as autonomism, council communism, De Leonism, Lettrism, parts of the New Left, Situationism, Socialisme ou Barbarie and workerism.^{[citation needed]} Libertarian Marxism has often had a strong influence on both post-left and social anarchists. Notable theorists of libertarian Marxism have included Maurice Brinton, Cornelius Castoriadis, Guy Debord, Raya Dunayevskaya, Daniel Guérin, C. L. R. James, Antonio Negri, Anton Pannekoek, Fredy Perlman, Ernesto Screpanti, E. P. Thompson, and Yanis Varoufakis,^[1] who argues that Marx himself was a libertarian Marxist.^[2]

See also

• Democracy in Marxism
• Outline of libertarianism

References

Bibliography

• Pioneers of Anti-Parliamentarism by Guy Aldred. Glasgow: Bakunin Press.
• Non-Leninist Marxism: Writings on the Workers Councils (a collection of writings by Gorter, Pannekoek, Pankhurst, and Ruhle). Red and Black Publishers, St Petersburg, Florida, 2007. ISBN:978-0979181368.
• The International Communist Current, itself a Left Communist grouping, has produced a series of studies of what it views as its own antecedents. The book on the German-Dutch current, which is by Philippe Bourrinet (who later left the ICC), in particular contains an exhaustive bibliography.
  • The Italian Communist Left 1926–1945 (ISBN:1897980132).
  • The Dutch-German Communist Left (ISBN:1899438378).
  • The Russian Communist Left, 1918–1930 (ISBN:1897980108).
  • The British Communist Left, 1914–1945 (ISBN:1897980116).
• (in French) L'Autonomie. Le mouvement autonome en France et en Italie, éditions Spartacus 1978.
• Benjamin Noys (ed). Communization and its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles. Minor Compositions, Autonomedia. 2011. 1st ed.
• Beyond post-socialism. Dialogues with the far-left by Chamsy el- Ojeili. Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. ^{[ISBN missing]}

External links

• "Libertarian Marxism?" by Daniel Guérin.
• Situationist International online.
• "Libertarian Marxism's Relation to Anarchism" by Wayne Price.
• "Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism" by Michael Löwy.
• For Communism – John Gray WebSite: large online library of libertarian communist texts.
• Left Communism collection on the Marxists Internet Archive.
• "The Libertarian Marxism of Andre Breton" by Michael Löwy.

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