Marcel van der Linden
Auteur van Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (Historical Materialism Book
Over de Auteur
Marcel van der Linden is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History and Professor in the History of Social Movements at the University of Amsterdam.
Fotografie: Jurriaan Bendien - Marcel van der Linden (2012)
Werken van Marcel van der Linden
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 (Historical Materialism Book (2007) 33 exemplaren
Humanitarian intervention and changing labor relations : the long-term consequences of the abolition of the slave trade (2010) 3 exemplaren
Shipbuilding and ship repair workers around the world. Case studies 1950-2010 (2017) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Über Marx hinaus: Arbeitsgeschichte und Arbeitsbegriff in der Konfrontation mit den globalen Arbeitsverhältnissen des… (2009) 2 exemplaren
The Formation of labour movements, 1870-1914 : an international perspective (1990) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
Die Rezeption der Marxschen Theorie in den Niederlanden (Schriften aus dem Karl-Marx-Haus) (1992) 1 exemplaar
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Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2011) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 71 exemplaren
Verlossing uit de slavernij bijbelse theologie in dienst van de bevrijding (2008) — Redacteur, sommige edities — 11 exemplaren
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Special shout out to all the views based around "Asiatic despotism" or "the Asiatic mode of production" (primarily Wittfogel descendants - awful man) which take a very rough rarely mentioned point from Marx and extend it really far to produce a racist, orientalist view of socialist states which explains nothing at all and deliberately bends the facts to fit the absurd theory. Some of these people saw Russia becoming "Asiatic" through the invasion of the Mongols! Surely a valuable way of analysing the USSR in 1970.
The conclusion of "none of these theories work in terms of 'orthodox Marxism'" is basically the extent of explicit editorialising the author offers but it's not meant as a criticism necessarily but more something important to point out because trying to fit everything into a framework sketched out 150 years ago is really constricting and whether something is "orthodox Marxist" isn't very important - or rather, it shouldn't be, as long as the framework created afterwards is still consistent and a useful way of analysing society. The meta theoretical note in the appendix is actually quite thought provoking, even though it's only a few pages - just some notes on what a "political theory" consists of and how political theories are attacked and changed… (meer)