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Rallo’s Anti-Marx Critique of Marx and the TSSI: A Response

Andrew Kliman responds to the critique of Marx and the TSSI in libertarian economist Juan Ramón Rallo’s Anti-Marx. Kliman demonstrates that Rallo inadvertently demolishes Bortkiewicz’s “proof” of Marx’s inconsistency, and that Rallo’s attempt to impugn Marx’s falling-rate-of-profit theory fails because his argument is logically fallacious. […]
Economics

Treating the TSSI Like a Dead Dog: A Response to Seth Ackerman

Ralph Keller argues that Ackerman’s Jacobin article engages in “intellectual immorality” by treating the TSSI like a dead dog. It ignores the disproofs of the Okishio Theorem and the answer to the charge that Marx didn’t “prove” that the rate of profit must fall. Keller also challenges Ackerman’s bogus rate of profit calculations. […]
Philosophy/Organization

Video: MHI Panels at Left Conference in New York City

Videos of two panels hosted by Marxist-Humanist Initiative on June 1, 2004, at the No War but the Class War” conference in New York City. Speakers include Gabriel Donnelly, Theresa Henry, Anne Jaclard, Andrew Kliman, and Francisco Palacios. […]
Resistance to Trumpism

Silence, Absence, Abdication

Official MHI Statement, May 29, 2024. The ongoing threat to democratic rights and civil liberties in the US, including our remaining reproductive rights, is acute. We are alarmed and disheartened that much of the left has responded to this crisis–at a major left conference, and in general–with near-total silence. […]
Alternatives to Capital

Marx’s Critique of Darimon in the Grundrisse

Andrew Kliman provides a close reading of Marx’s critique of Darimon, discusses three key themes (what is and isn’t economically possible, labor money, and directly vs. indirectly social labor), and situates it within Marx’s overall critique of, and fight against, Proudhonism. […]
International News

IMHO Tail-ends Hamas, Abandons Marxist-Humanist Philosophy

Seth Weiss shows that Kevin Anderson and his so-called International Marxist-Humanist Organization, in a recent statement that implicitly supports Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israeli civilians, have abandoned crucial principles of Marxist-Humanist philosophy. […]
Philosophy/Organization

Why I Asked to Join Marxist-Humanist Initiative

Jane Michaels, MHI’s newest member, discusses why she asked to join the organization and the experiences that brought her to this point. […]

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September 1, 2017

Sunday, October 6, from 1 to 3 pm EDT

“The Ground on Which Marx Stood when Turning to Reality and Practice”: Andrew Kliman will lead the discussion on Raya Dunayevskaya’s unique and challenging view that Marx began to develop his Marxism before he was a Marxist, when he was working out the dialectic of the transformation of reality. This was the ground on which he stood when he later turned to the real world and to practice.

To attend, send MHI a request to attend by Oct. 1; state briefly why you’re interested in MHI and your location.

online version:

Resisting Trumpist Reaction
(and Left Accommodation)

Now also available as a pamphlet for $5. Order here. Now also available as a video series.

Our Perspectives thesis includes:

• Trumpism in Power, Aided by the Soft-on-Trump Left, Threatens Life and Liberty
• The Resistance: A Permanent State of Revolt Against Trumpism
• Economic Mythology of Left-Populist Alternatives to Neoliberalism
• Combatting “Post-Truth Politics,” in Practice and in Theory
• Combatting White Nationalism: Lessons from Marx
• Individual Responsibility for the Collective Development of Marxist-Humanism

“Raya Dunayevskaya: Biography of an Idea”

MHI is happy to distribute this documentary film by Alex Fletcher. It explores many major concepts of the philosopher, activist, and feminist Raya Dunayevskaya, who developed Marxist-Humanism over much of the last century, up until her death in 1987. The 79-minute film contains rare video clips of her speeches and offers glimpses of material in her archives, as well as featuring interviews of 3 MHI members who belonged to Dunayevskaya’s organization during her lifetime.

Film now available here. Review and trailer here.

Contact us if you would like MHI to join a discussion at your screening:
mhi@marxisthumanistinitiative.org

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