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Welcome to the Surplus Value website Surplus Value
is a project of The Praxis Network, a loose community of Marxian
thinkers and activists from around Australia. Our initial plan is
to build a viable and useful network amongst ourselves. We also
trust that others may be interested in joining in this project.
To carry this out, we have established this website and an email group
for discussions and debate. We also publish a journal (currently
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Latest Additions to our site.
To see the latest addition to this website, click here , and see latest additions to Humphrey McQueen website, Click here
March 2023
May 2022
Classic Marxist Theories of Imperialism by Murray Noonan
Correcting Economic Correctness Review of Joe Collins book on Economic Rent, 2022
December 2021
Controversies amongst Cambridge economists about Capital
September 2021
Sentinel Chickens
Microbes Animals and us
Fukuyama and Hegel
Dialectics and Motion in Hegel
Capitalism's contradictions - Marx and Dynamics
Marx and Polish nationalism
History and Climate
Menzies Cold War - Ch 1-4
Menzies Cold War - Ch 5
Menzies Cold War - Ch 6-9
Bringing the Fight - at Uni of Qld
Slavery in Australia
Aboriginal Land Rights
Journey to Pulykara - Hunters and Gatherers
Desert Pea - Instructions for making
review of Dark Emu
Plunkett and the Myall Creek criminals
Peter Sutton review of Dark Emu
Macfarlane tribute by Humphrey McQueen
Humphrey McQueen latest
February 2021
Black Resistance
March 2020
Important contributions on global virus pandemics from Ian Angus (2019) and Mike Davis (2005)
NOTES:
We now have a slightly different structure for this site, with new pages for politics, environment, science, marxism, and a new structure also for the 5 pillars sites.
There are also new articles by Humphrey McQueen on his site, - see his "new articles" page
In particular, see:
Five Pillars - Work:
Draft Chapters of new book by Humphrey McQueen entitled Constant Revolutionising + Background Material
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Our aims are threefold - to:
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reintroduce class as fundamental to developing political understanding
and strategy, particularly for the labour movement to respond to
current strategies and tactics of capital in a globalised world.
- reintroduce a materialist approach to our own history and into everyday political practice.
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bring a dialectical approach to our political activity, so that
strategies are based on the lives and experiences of everyday
Australian people - both workers, and those currently dependent on
social security – rather than on a dogmatic assertion of “political
truths”.
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a paired series of mural-like canvases, titled “Builders” and
“Pastimes”, the French painter and Communist Fernand Leger (1881-1955)
depicted scaffolders as acrobats and circus performers as collective
workers. Here, creativity appears as work while work is represented as
art, in a world where both jobs and play enrich human capacities. Leger
portrayed “new-fangled” human beings, reliant on each other and hence
unafraid of machinery or frameworks of steel. For a glimpse of what
work should look like, consider the joy in Leger’s paintings." (John Berger, Permanent Red,
Methuen , London , 1960, pp. 121-25. ) |
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Please Note:
this web site is still under development, so please be patient if there
is no content on some of the pages. Please contact us via the email
address if you find any problems or have any suggestions to make. |
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