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

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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 (or Advocacy) 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 greater good. Forms of activism range fro ...

dealing with misunderstandings and slander surrounding

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and his ideas. His published works cover topics from

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

Works

Books

''Stalinism: Its Origin & Future.''
1993.

1997. , At Wikisource
''For Ethical Politics.''
2003. * ''An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity.'' Leiden: Brill, 201
(hardback)
Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012 (paperback). * ''Selected Writings on the Semiotics of Modernity.'' Erythros Press and Media, 2012. * ''Concepts: A Critical Approach.'' Leiden: Brill, 2012
hardback
; Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014 (paperback). * ''Collaborative Projects. An Interdisciplinary Study.'' 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.''

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Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2009.

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