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The Theory of Alienation: Marx’s Debt to Hegel – Raya Dunayevskaya

ilya 10 months ago
The Theory of Alienation: Marx’s Debt to Hegel – Raya Dunayevskaya

One of many contributions to the exploration of Marx’s relationship to Hegel. The text proves itself to be a firm baseline for an enhanced understanding of the concept of Subjectivity within Marx and thus of the relationship of Theory and Praxis, ideas which are unexplainable in the absence of their mediator; Revolutionary organisation.

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Space versus Cement – Il Programa Comunista

Vil 10 months ago
Space versus Cement – Il Programa Comunista

We’re in a hurry. Is that okay? The earth, on the crust of which we live, is shaped like a ball or a sphere. Let us digress for a moment: this concept, which for thousands of years has been extremely difficult for even the most brilliant scientists to understand, is […]

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The transformation of work according to revolutionaries of the late 19th Century – ICC

gulagwithahumanface 10 months ago
The transformation of work according to revolutionaries of the late 19th Century – ICC

In the previous article in this series, we showed how the authentic socialists of the end of the 19th century had envisaged the way that a future communist society would tackle some of mankind’s most pressing social problems: the relationship between man and woman, and between humankind and the nature […]

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Either the world working class puts an end to capitalism, or capitalism puts an end to humanity – ICC

Rex 10 months ago
Either the world working class puts an end to capitalism, or capitalism puts an end to humanity – ICC

We are publishing an article written by our sections in Spain and Italy, which shows that in all countries the bourgeoisie is displaying the same criminal negligence towards the pandemic and the same contempt for the lives of the exploited.  The capitalist state is presenting itself as our saviour. This […]

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The Covid-19 Pandemic: A symptom of the terminal phase of capitalist decadence – ICC

Rex 10 months ago
The Covid-19 Pandemic: A symptom of the terminal phase of capitalist decadence – ICC

Introduction The coronavirus epidemic is leaving thousands of dead around the world. Why? Because research into this kind of virus, which has been known about for a long time, was abandoned because it wasn’t seen as profitable! Because when the epidemic took off it was more important to the Chinese […]

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More evidence that capitalism has become a danger to humanity – ICC

Rex 10 months ago
More evidence that capitalism has become a danger to humanity – ICC

The emergence of this new virus and the reaction of the bourgeoisie shows how the development of the productive forces has come up against the death and destruction caused by capitalism. So while China has become the world’s second economic power it has been laid low by a viral epidemic, […]

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Humanity’s Health or Capitalism’s Profit? – ICT

Rex 10 months ago
Humanity’s Health or Capitalism’s Profit? – ICT

Socialism, or communism, or whatever you want to call a society of the future, will not save us from occasional epidemics. It would however deal with them in an entirely different way. In the first place it would not try to shut up (in both senses of the word) the […]

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Capitalism Grappling with Coronavirus – ICT

Rex 10 months ago
Capitalism Grappling with Coronavirus – ICT

Coronavirus has now become a pandemic that none of us wished for. And the response of the society in which we live only demonstrates the absurdity of its economic laws which cannot cope with sudden calamities and natural upheavals, including the climate and environmental disasters also looming on the horizon. […]

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Lessons of the Counterrevolutions – Amadeo Bordiga

Vil 10 months ago
Lessons of the Counterrevolutions – Amadeo Bordiga

Introduction to the 1981 Spanish Translation The theme of the general meeting of the Party held on September 1, 1951 in Naples was “the lessons of the counterrevolutions”, not only in order to respond to doubts and uncertainties of the comrades concerning the correct evaluation of the nature of the […]

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The Guignol in History – Amadeo Bordiga

Vil 10 months ago
The Guignol in History – Amadeo Bordiga

The cult of the Leader, the cult of personality, not a divine but a human personality, is an even worse social narcotic that we shall define as the cocaine of the proletariat.

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