LibGuides: ENG BC3172 Marxist Materialisms: Welcome

Welcome

Welcome!

This guide pulls together some resources to help you with your research and with thinking about Marxist Theory.

I've gathered a list of good databases to start with along with some information on primary sources. I've also included some hints for search strategies to get you started. Mainly though, I hope you'll make a time to meet with me one-on-one to talk about the library, the resources we have available for you, to talk about your own projects, or anything else related to gathering information. You can just Book a Research Consultation!

Background Research and Resources

The Marxist Interent Archive
Volunteer run group, gathering resources and writings related to Marxism
Marx and Philosophy Society
The Marx and Philosophy Society aims to encourage scholarly engagement with, and creative development of, the philosophical and foundational aspects of Marx’s work.

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism
Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy
Contains over 2,800 articles that have been edited for level and consistency by a team of renowned subject experts. Regularly updated with new and revised articles it is the ideal entry point for further discovery and research, clearly organized and with over 25,000 cross-references linking themes, concepts and philosophers. It is also an ideal reference source for those in subjects related to philosophy, such as politics, psychology, economics, anthropology, religion and literature.
Oxford handbooks online. Philosophy
Includes Oxford handbooks of rationality, free will, presocratic philosophy, philosophy of biology, philosophy and literature, Plato, skepticism, philosophy of economics, epistemology, philosophy and neuroscience, ethical theory, philosophy of mathematics & logic, philosophy of religion, American philosophy, continental philosophy, contemporary philosophy, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, metaphysics, practical ethics, language, bioethics, causation, business ethnics, emotion, education, and others.

Readings and Reflections

Marxism and the Public Library
"Public Libraries and Marxism provides a Marxist analytical framework for understanding public libraries and presents a set of proposals for transforming the capitalist libraries of today. Evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of this Marxist framework, the authors also provide a critical examination of the history, theory and practice of libraries in the Soviet Union and North Korea. Considering what a Marxist library service would look like in the western capitalist countries of today, Pateman and Pateman synthesise the insights provided throughout the book into a set of Marxist proposals that are designed to promote the transformation of contemporary western public librarianship.
Protesters Rally Against Deletion of ‘Transgender’ on Stonewall Website
The Park Service said on Thursday that it had removed references to the transgender community to comply with an executive order signed by President Trump on his first day in office that was described as “restoring biological truth to the federal government,” and with a second order signed by the acting secretary of the interior last month.

Read and Reflect:

What is the relationship between access to information and the Marxist ideas you have been discussing? What is the relationship between libraries and library space and the ideas you have been discussing?

ENG BC3172 Marxist Materialisms

Reading Capital with David Harvey

Liam Adler

A Collective for Thinking Gay Communism

Welcome

Background Research and Resources

Readings and Reflections