Issue #153 The Test of Communism

The Test of Communism

Jasper Bernes

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Munkácsy Mihály, Strike, 1895. License: Public Domain.

Issue #153
April 2025










Notes
1

Karl Marx, “Letter to Johann Philipp Becker,” in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 42 (Lawrence & Wishart, 1994), 358–59.

2

“Marx to Kugelmann in Hanover,” July 11, 1868, in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 43 (Lawrence & Wishart, 1994), 68.

3

Alfred Darimon and Emile de Girardin, De la réforme des banques (Guillaumin et Cie, 1856); John Gray, Lectures on the Nature and Use of Money: Delivered before the Members of the “Edinburgh Philosophical Institution” during the Months of February and March, 1848 (A. & C. Black, 1848).

4

Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin, 1993); Karl Marx, “General Rules and Administrative Regulations of the International Working Men’s Association,” in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 23 (Lawrence & Wishart, 1988).

5

E. K. Hunt, “The Relation of the Ricardian Socialists to Ricardo and Marx,” Science and Society 44, no. 2 (1980).

6

Value: The Representation of Labour in Capitalism, ed. Diane Elson (CSE Books, 1979), 123.

7

Jean Barrot (Gilles Dauvé) and François Martin, Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement, 1st ed. (Black & Red, 1974), 125.

8

Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, A Critique of Political Economy (Penguin, 1992), 171.

9

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Collected Works, vol. 5 (Lawrence & Wishart, 2010), 24.

Excerpted from The Future of Revolution: Communist Prospects from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by Jasper Bernes, out next month from Verso.