New Revolutionary Marxism

    THE METAMORPHOSES OF MARXISM   Steven Gouldner   This text was originally written in 1990. In the 2000s a formally corrected version appeared. The current text is already a third version, with a slightly greater change, with some broader formal changes to meet the need for this publication. The content is the same, only the form and some small details are the novelty. The reason for this small formal change and details is with the objective of increasing its precision, its coherence, and also to accompany the development of the author's thought, as it was possible to effect a deepening after 30 years of his writing. The text's theme is the supposed crisis of Marxism that is explained through its metamorphoses and confusion between Marxism and pseudomarxism. How to explain the supposed “crisis of Marxism”? This is the initial question and starting point and the conclusion is that there is no crisis of Marxism, because such ...

  Paresh Chattopadhyay sobre as idéias econômicas de Lenin, em oposição ao socialismo de Marx. Conteúdo econômico do socialismo em Lenin É o mesmo que em Marx? Paresh Chattopadhyay Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay), 26 de janeiro de 1991.   In the following lines we propose to discuss critically how Lenin conceived of socialism as a new form of society and to what extent his concept of socialism could be considered Marxian. As the title of the paper indicates, we shall be concerned here basically with the economic content of socialism considered purely as a theoretical category. It should be emphasised that we are not concerned here with the (practical) policies Lenin pursued, before or after October 1917, towards the realisation of socialism. Ours is an exercise in pure theory. In what follows, Section I summarises Lenin's main ideas on socialism's economic content, Section II examines these ideas in the light of Marx's writings on the subject, while Section III con...