Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian historian, writer, and

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philosopher, who is based in

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Biography

Blunden is a member and secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive Collective (or Marxists.org), a website which contains many Marxist and Marxist related text on history, philosophy, and politics along with many other topics. Another Internet project Blunden is involved with is the "Marx Myths & Legends". This website hosts many articles of prominent Marxian

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and

activists Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived common good. Forms of activism range from mandate build ...

dealing with

Karl Marx Karl Marx (; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He is best-known for the 1848 pamphlet '' The Communist Manifesto'' (written with Friedrich Engels) ...

and his ideas. His published works cover topics from

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and t ...

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to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using

Lev Vygotsky Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (, ; ; – June 11, 1934) was a Russian and Soviet psychologist, best known for his work on psychological development in children and creating the framework known as cultural-historical activity theory. After his ear ...

Works

Books

* * * At Wikisource. * * ''An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity.'' Leiden: Brill, 201
(hardback)
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 (paperback). * * ''Concepts: A Critical Approach.'' Leiden: Brill, 2012
hardback
; Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014 (paperback). * ''Collaborative Projects. An Interdisciplinary Study.'' (editor) Leiden: Brill, 2014
hardback
; Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016 (paperback). * ''The Origins of Collective Decision Making.'' Leiden: Brill, 2016
hardback
; Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017 (paperback). * *

Contributions

* "Foreword" to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ''Hegel's Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences.''

830 __NOTOC__ Year 830 ( DCCCXXX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Britain * King Wiglaf of Mercia regains control from Wessex, and returns to the throne.Swanton, ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', pp. ...

Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2009.

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