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Legacies, Manuscripts, Letters, and Authorship

The editorial work on the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) indicates that there is no finished masterpiece of Capital, and it reveals that the earlier economic manuscripts are far from being only "preparatory studies" culminating in Capital. To learn more about Marx' process of research, it is useful to consult all his manuscripts, letters and notebooks. The critical edition focusses on the connections between different passages in all of them; modern technologies offer new possibilities to visualize these connections. This article will present a survey on material presented by MEGA in print and online, and highlight some features and results of MEGAdigital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Capitalism and Corporate profits

The MEGA2 edition is a watershed in interpreting important aspects of Marx's oeuvre, but not all of them. It provides hints as to why Marx failed to complete his magnum opus, Capital, and informs about his doubts regarding the "law of motion" of capitalism centred on the "law of the falling tendency of the rate of profit" he was keen to establish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial crises and Economics

The paper explores a new aspect of the development of the Books of Crisis: the fact that Marx's empirical research on the 1857 crisis in these notebooks was undertaken as the direct continuation of his study of Thomas Tooke and William Newmarch's A History of Prices. Our investigation will provide clues to better understand the structure and contents of the documents. Particularly, we provide new evidence for why Marx started his research on the 1857 crisis with the French economy, which managed to steer clear of the crisis, rather than with England, which was already acutely affected by it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RADICAL behaviorism (Psychology), SOCIAL problems, and POVERTY

The article focuses on political and social condition in the Europe. Topics include rise of will of people when the situation becomes unbearable and intolerable, comments made on ideology of German philosopher Karl Marx, and tendency of human mind to bear the unbearable. It also mentions an experience of impasse and suggestion of professor Lauren Berlant such as rising radicalization amid desperation and poverty, conditions of suffering and oppression and concept of political change.

Marxian economics, Globalization, Nationalism, Communism, Austro-Marxist school, Political systems, and Russian Revolution, 1917-1921

Marxists have been engaging with nationalism from the days of Marx and Engels until the present, generating much debate (for an overview, see Low>', 1998, Munck, 1 986 and Nimni, 1991), but also considerable confusion. This article traces the genealogy of Marxist engagement with nationalism in the work and practice of Marx and Engels; in the later response by the communist movement following the Russian Revolution of 1917; in relation to the unorthodox theory of nationalism produced by the Austro-Marxist Otto Bauer; and, finally, in some of the debates within the broad Marxist/post-Marxist strands of political thought that seek to place nationalism in the era of globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FINANCIAL crises and CAPITALISM

An introduction is presented in which topics within the issue are mentioned which includes works by Karl Marx, capitalism and financial crisis.

RENT (Economic theory) and AGRICULTURE

Marx's theory of rent is usually regarded to be represented in the text of Part VI of Book III of Capital, which was originally a chapter in his manuscript written in 1865 on the basis of the manuscript of 1861–1863, into which the theory of rent slipped by accident in the course of its writing. The present article elucidates such particular circumstances relating to the making of Marx's theory of rent composed of two forms, differential and absolute, based on the new MEGA volumes. Special attention is paid to Liebig's agro-chemistry, which considerably influenced Marx's view on modern agriculture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

SECULARIZATION, CHURCH, ABSOLUTE poverty, RELIGIOUS diversity, and COMMUNISM & religion

The article presents the author's views on the process of secularization, a non-religious attitude to which the Church must react. The author also discusses the role of states to eradicate poverty, pluralist society, the helplessness of the Church or religious orders to the questions asked by society including Karl Marx's works on religion and secular state.

SOCIOLOGY, SOCIAL stratification, SOCIAL classes, PSYCHOLOGICAL typologies, and CAPITALISM

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PRAXIS (Social sciences), ECOLOGY, MATERIALISM, and SOCIAL sciences

The present crisis of development and environment has increasingly been regarded as the problem of praxis. The policy delinked from praxis proves to be absurd in providing any material solution. It has been realized that praxis has its own logic as well as consequences, which should not be underestimated in structural planning laid down in advance. In this context, conceptualization of praxis seems inevitable. Modern discourses assume its transitive character by narrowing down its significance. Marx's concept of praxis reveals newer scope to be engaged with it. This article attempts to construct that concept in Marx while invoking the dialectic between generic essence and specific forms of human activity. This newer understanding of praxis as transcendence discards all forms of reductionist interpretations prevailing in the academic world as it also refutes the dualism of immanence and intentionality characterized by the concept of transitivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]