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Good Marxist Essays
by a variety of authors.
I've found these essays on different databases; scanned them; gotten them in electronic format from the authors -- anyway I could. Some are up here with author's permission. All make a contribution to our future by strengthening our determination to get rid of capitalism and build an egalitarian workers' world.
Jim
Neilson, "The Truth in Things:
Personal Trauma As Historical Amnesia in The Things They Carried."
Jim
Neilson, "Commercial Literary Culture,"
First published in the minnesota review , nos. 48-49 (Spring-Fall 1997, published
December 1998), 71-90.
Jerry
Phillips, "Culture, the academy, and the police; or
reading Matthew Arnold in 'our present unsettled state.'". Originally in College
Literature, September 1998.
Jerry
Phillips, "The fate of the earth: "each and
all" or nothing? , from Literature and Psychology, Fall 1997.
Jerry
Phillips, "Marxism
and Utopian Socialism," from Ron Strickland's On-Line Marxist
Theory course at Illinois State U., Spring 2000.
Greg
Meyerson, "Marxism,
Psychoanalysis and Labor Competition,". An excellent critique of some
phony-"radical" theories of racism. From Cultural Logic, vol. 1.
Greg
Meyerson, "The Good
Professors of Szechuan," Fine critique of the crisis of U.S. universities and the
pseudo-left, accomodationist attempts to deal with them. From Workplace (Graduate
Student Caucus, MLA), inaugural issue.
Jim
Prickett, "Anti-Communism and Labor History."
Excellent analysis of "scholarly propaganda," Prickett shows the dishonest use
of language by famous historians to lie about the Communist movement in the U.S.
Originally published in Industrial Relations, 13 (October 1974).
BACK to Sam Foote's Page of Important and Hard-To-Find Political and Cultural Texts.
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