Ernest Mandel was een vooraanstaand marxistisch econoom en activist. Zijn theoretische werk richtte zich op het populariseren van marxistische ideeën en het toepassen ervan op economische analyses. Zijn vroege ervaringen in het verzet tegen de nazi's vormden diepgaand zijn intellectuele kijk en zijn toewijding aan zijn politieke idealen. Mandel's bijdragen liggen in het toegankelijk en relevant maken van complexe marxistische theorieën voor een breder publiek.
This book offers a significant advancement in Marxist economic theory, presenting innovative analyses and interpretations that challenge traditional views. It engages with contemporary economic issues while grounding its arguments in historical context, making it a vital resource for scholars and students alike. By exploring the intersections of capitalism and class dynamics, it aims to deepen the understanding of Marxist principles in today's economic landscape.
WORLD HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. The very scale of the 1939-45 war has often tempted historians to study particular campaigns at the expense of the wider panorama. In this readable and richly detailed history of the conflict, the Belgian scholar Ernest Mandel (author of the acclaimed Late Capitalism) outlines his view that the war was in fact a combination of several distinct struggles and a battle between rival imperialisms for world hegemony. In concise chapters, Mandel examines the role played by technology, science, logistics, weapons and propaganda. Throughout, he weaves a consideration of the military strategy of the opposing states into his analytical narrative of the war and its results
Ernest Mandel’s book is a study of Eurocommunism unlike any other. Written in the polemical tradition of Trotsky, its sweep extends well beyond the immediate prospects of the Communist Parties of Western Europe. Mandel traces the long historical process which has transformed the once embattled detachments of the Third International into the constitutionalist formations of “historic compromise” and “union of the people” today. He then goes on to argue that the national roads to socialism of contemporary Eurocommunism are the “bitter fruits of socialism in one country” in the USSR.Mandel’s book contains trenchant and documented criticisms of the ideas of Santiago Carrillo in Spain, the economic policies of the PCI in Italy, and the PCF’s theories of the State in France. But it also sets these Western developments in the context of European politics as a whole—discussing the Russian response to Carrillo, the organizational attitudes of the CPSU to the Western parties, and the emergence of major dissident currents in Eastern Germany sympathetic to Eurocommunism.From Stalinism to Eurocommunism represents the first systematic and comprehensive critique from the Marxist Left of the new strategy of Western Communism. It can be read as a barometer of the storms ahead in the European labour movement.
This book contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. "The Leninist Theory of Organisation" is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The "Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory" was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics. This book is the first in a series of selected writings by Ernest Mandel. CONTENTS: Introduction by Ian Parker The Marxist Theory of the State The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory The Nature of Social-Democratic Reformism On Bureaucracy: A Marxist Analysis The Leninist Theory of Organisation.
Ernest Mandels 'Marxistische Wirtschaftstheorie' bietet eine umfassende Darstellung der marxistischen Ökonomie, die über 100 Jahre nach dem ersten Band des 'Kapitals' entstand. Mandel kombiniert neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse mit empirischen Daten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und geht über orthodoxe und revisionistische Ansätze hinaus.
