Andy Blunden

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Andy Blunden (born 11 October 1945) is an Australian historian, writer, and Marxist philosopher,^[1] who is 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.^[2] 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 Karl Marx and his ideas.^[3] His published works cover topics from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to post-structuralism to ethics and politics. Blunden is a self-described "Hegelian Marxist with a 'pragmatist twist' using Lev Vygotsky".^[4]

• Beyond Betrayal. 1991.
• Stalinism: Its Origin & Future. Marxists.org. 1993.
• Meaning of Hegel's Logic. 1997. At Wikisource.
• Ethical Politics. Heidelberg Press. 2003. Archived from the original on 10 February 2016.
• An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity. Leiden: Brill, 2010 (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. (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).
• Hegel for Social Movements. Brill. 2019.
• Hegel, Marx & Vygotsky. Essays in Social Philosophy. 2021.

• "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.

• Aleksei N. Leontiev
• Critical Psychology
• Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
• Cultural-historical psychology
• Kharkov School of Psychology
• Vygotsky Circle

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Andy Blunden

• Andy Blunden's Home Page
• Transcript from ABC Radio National's "perspective" Ethical Politics
• The Blackwood Group
• Hegel: The First Cultural Psychologist Video from Vimeo