Andy Blunden

Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian writer and Marxist philosopher based in Melbourne.

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 scholars and activists dealing with misunderstandings and slander surrounding Marx and his ideas.

His published works cover topics from Hegel to post-structuralism to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using Lev Vygotsky."

Books

• Stalinism: Its Origin & Future. 1993.
• Meaning of Hegel's Logic. 1997. | At Wikisource
• For Ethical Politics. 2003.
• An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2012.
• Selected Writings on the Semiotics of Modernity. Erythros Press and Media, 2012.
• Concepts: A Critical Approach. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014.

Contributions

• "Foreword" to Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Logic: Being Part One of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences. [1830] Marxists Internet Archive Publications, 2009.