In this essay, I am going to talk about an important part of Marx that
is often ignored: his contribution to the art of political program.
There is no lack of literature exploring the theories and philosophical
ideas of Marx. Yet we often forget that Marx was not only a political
strategist but someone who contributed to existing political movements.
The/Communist Manifesto/is probably the most famous of his contributions
of this type, written in the midst of the struggles of 1848. However,
this was early in Marx’s political career. If we want to attain an
understanding of his most “mature” political contributions, a key
document is the/Programme of the Parti Ouvier
<https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ouvrier.htm>,/co-written
with Jules Guesde. This document stands not only as an expression of the
political views of the mature Marx, but as a model to base the
construction of a minimum-maximum program, which in my opinion is the
model that today’s socialist movement should orient itself around.
https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/05/the-revolutionary-minimum-maximum-program/
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