“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” – Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto The ideas of class and class struggle are intimately tied up with Marxism because Marxists see economic relations as both…
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Marxism, aka Scientific Socialism, is a field of study first developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 19th Century, which continues to develop to this day. Before Karl Marx, all attempts at socialism had been utopian. That is…
Every year, the Economic Intelligence Unit releases the Democracy Index. This index claims to rank countries by how democratic they are. But how credible is it? The first thing we notice when we look into it, is that the Democracy…
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat (DotP) is one of the fundamental concepts in Marxism. It doesn’t describe the dictatorship of a single person or a small group, but rather the dictatorship of a whole class over the rest of society….
“Emphasis on public participation by Cubans is focused not only on periodic voting but also on continuous participation in governing.” MarkH. Kruger (2007) Community Based Crime Control in Cuba Countries like the US and UK treat crime as if it’s…
Dialectical Materialism is the philosophical framework with which Marxists analyse the world. Historical Materialism is the application of Dialectical Materialism to history. Videos About Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism Channel: Politics in Command Idealism vs Materialism https://youtu.be/tKFLBjfAhsY Metaphysics vs Dialectics…
It’s easy to get lost in efforts to convert your country to Socialism, and that is the most useful place to apply most of our efforts. However, it’s worth asking now how we’ll protect Socialism once we manage to achieve…
A common talking point amongst apologists for Capitalism is that wage labor isn’t exploitative because people enter into it voluntarily. But this simplistic explanation hides some very interesting points about the true nature of the relationship between owner and worker….
The following is an extract from a manual issued by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS,) a predecessor to the CIA, giving advice designed to help imperialist agents sabotage the states of Axis powers and their collaborators. This is provided…
While it’s common for people to use the words state and government interchangeably, Marxists view the two terms as having very different meanings. What’s the difference between the state and the government? To Marxists, the state consists of all the…