Andy Blunden is an Australian writer

Writer

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 and Marxist philosopher based in Melbourne

Melbourne

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Blunden is a member and secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive Collective

Marxists Internet Archive

Marxists Internet Archive is a volunteer based non-profit organization that maintains a multi-lingual Internet archive of Marxist writers and other similar authors...

 (or Marxists.org), a website which contains many Marxist and Marxist related text on history

History

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, philosophy

Philosophy

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 and politics

Politics

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 along with many other topics.

Another internet projects Blunden is involved with is the "Marx Myths & Legends". This website hosts many articles of prominent Marxian scholars and activists dealing with misunderstandings and slander surrounding Marx and his ideas.

His published works cover topics from Hegel to Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s...

 to Ethics

Ethics

Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and evil, right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice and crime, etc.Major branches of ethics include:...

 and Politics. Blunden is a self described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist.'"http://home.mira.net/~andy/works/method.htm

Books

• Stalinism: Its Origin & Future(1993)
• Meaning of Hegel’s Logic | Read it at Wikisourse (1997)
• For Ethical Politics(2003)

External links

• Andy Blunden’s Home Page
• Transcript from ABC Radio National's "perspective" Ethical Politics
• The Blackwood Group