Tag: Karl Marx

  • Bruno Leipold on Influence of Republicanism on Marx in Citizen Marx: Section I and II

    Bruno Leipold on Influence of Republicanism on Marx in Citizen Marx: Section I and II

    SECTION I An analysis of Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought and important differences from The American Minervan on Republicanism. Citizen Marx: The Relationship Between Karl Marx and Republicanism was the PhD Thesis of Bruno Leipold adapted into a book. I value and commend the work…

  • Marx, Lincoln and Anti-Capitalistic Roots in Republicanism

    Marx, Lincoln and Anti-Capitalistic Roots in Republicanism

    Steven F. Hayward writes about the classical influences of the American Revolution: “Wood says that the American Revolution was a “republican” revolution. By that he means that it had intellectual roots ranging from ancient Greece and Rome to the English Commonwealth, and that it was more communal than capitalistic. “Ideally,” he writes, “republicanism obliterated the…

  • Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)

    Angelica Balabanoff on Mussolini’s Problem in the “The Young Mussolini” film (1993)

    Before Sono Tornato and Vincere A few months ago, I ordered from Amazon the film Il Giovane Mussolini (1993), renamed “Benito: The Rise and Fall of Mussolini.” I wanted to see what difference the film was to the later more psychological interpretation of Mussolini’s mind in Vincere (2010). In The Young Mussolini, Benito Mussolini is…

  • The Irony of Apoliticism in the Theosophical Movement

    The Irony of Apoliticism in the Theosophical Movement

    INTRODUCTION: APOLITICISM AND MODERN STATE OF MONARCHISM With the reintroduction of theosophical research in the mainstream comes opportunity to combat misconceptions about the relation between the Theosophical Movement and Politics as explained in Herman de Tollenaere on Influence of Theosophy on Indonesian and South Asian Nationalisms. I am not of the belief, that Theosophists had…