La historia del fascismo es también la historia del análisis teórico del mismo. La aparición simultánea de un fenómeno social nuevo de las tentativas efectuadas para comprenderlo es más sorprendente en el caso del fascismo que en cualquier otro ejemplo de la historia moderna. El ?shock? que experimentaron los observadores atentos al proceso fue todavía más fuerte en la medida en que esa sacudida de la historia vino acompañada del ejercicio directo de la violencia física sobre los individuo...

Geç Kapitalizm, Marx'ın Kapital'de geliştirdiği kapitalist üretim tarzının hareket yasalarının genel teorisini 20. yüzyıl kapitalizminin somut tarihine uygulayan ilk büyük Marksist sentezdir. Mandel, çözümlemesine kapitalist ekonomilerin nasıl incelenmesi gerektiğine dair Bauer, Grossman, Luxemburg ve Buharin'in yaklaşımlarının eleştirel bir değerlendirmesini de içeren bir tartışma ile başlıyor. Daha sonra yazar dünya pazarının yapısını ve artı-kârın çeşitli biçimlerini özetliyor. Yazar ay...

In this revised and expanded edition of Long Waves of Capitalist Development, Ernest Mandel seeks to explain the underlying determinants of the booms and slumps of the trade cycle. Mandel first establishes that there have indeed been twenty- to twenty-five-year-long waves of capitalist expansion and contraction-and that these have persisted in the period since World War II. He then assembles evidence to show that while broad tendencies in the rate of profit have been decisive in t...

In 1977, the Colombian journal Ideología y Sociedad devoted twenty-eight pages of its twenty-first issue to an attack on Ernest Mandel's The Leninist Theory of Organisation. The author was Nahuel Moreno, leader of the Argentinian Trotskyist current that bore his name. The journal belonged to the Bloque Socialista, a Colombian organisation then seeking adhesion to the Fourth International. The attack was published without the texts it was attacking.Mandel replied i...

Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the only systematic attempt so far ever made to combine the general theory of the 'laws of motion' of the capitalist mode of production developed by Marx with the concrete history of capitalism in the twentieth century. A landmark in Marxist economic literature, Late Capitalism is specifically designed to explain the international re...

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second World War as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel's faith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazi oppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentration camps. He retained his connec...

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, s...

Leon Trotsky has become one of the twentieth century's most enduring political legends. Joining the Bolsheviks on the eve of the 1917 revolution he played a vital role as Lenin's right-hand man in the insurrection and went on to lead the Red Army to victory in the ensuing civil war. Having lost to Stalin the struggle for power which followed Lenin's death, he became an implacable opponent of the dictator over the next three decades-a stance which cost him his political career, his citizens...

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...

In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse. In a series of focused chapters he provides an overview of debates and discussions of subjects that are central to Marxist economic theory. Mandel focuses onMarx's concept of "alienation" which gained much currency among Marxists in the twentieth century, traces the development of debates surround...

This book collects essays exploring Marxist theory and history. Essays include historical examinations of Rosa Luxemburg's place in the German workers movement, the development of the bourgeois state, and of the roots of Nazi violence. Other chapters discuss Marx's notions of progress, alienation and emancipation, Luxemburg's views on political economy and political strategy. Also included are engagements with Ernst Bloch, analytical Marxism and Althusser, as well as a pioneering essay on ...

Leon Trotsky was the most important contributor to the development of revolutionary Marxism this century, after Lenin. As exiled militant or Soviet statesman, party organizer or public orator, as political analyst, soldier or commentator on cultural trends, he was centrally involved in the world-historic upheavals of his time and foremost among the interpreters of their significance for socialism. Yet the fate of his achievement was dramatically discrepant from Lenin's. At the latter's dea...