The Party of the Mexican Revolution ‘recognizes the class struggle’ to combat the proletarian revolution One of the most characteristic features of political life today, is the fact that the bourgeoisie, in order to derail the attack of the starving and desperate masses, hypocritically and demagogically presents itself as the opposite […]
Capitalism
Works laying out the Left’s view of contemporary capitalism.
American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard [Excerpt], Raya Dunayevskaya
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March on Washington The outbreak of World War II in 1939 and the gearing of the American factories for war output very nearly wiped out unemployment – white unemployment. But nearly 25 per cent of the Negro work force remained unemployed in 1940. The very fact that, both South and […]
Theses on the Right of Nations to Self-determination – Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch, Nikolai Bukharin
A set of theses, first published in the single-issue journal ‘Kommunist’ no. 1-2, Geneva 1915, (not to be confused with the journal ‘Kommunist’, of the same name, that appeared in 1918 at Saint Petersburg (ten issues) and Moscow (four issues)), written by Georgy Pyatakov, Yevgenia Bosch and Nikolai Bukharin on the […]
Nationalism and Socialism, Paul Mattick
A 1959 article by the left-communist Paul Mattick defending Luxemburg’s stance on national liberation in the new era of the post-WW2 world. Many of his arguments still bear relevance to the conflicts of today.
Commentary on the Manuscripts of 1844, Bordiga
Cornerstones of the communist programme At the closing sessions of the meetings in Turin and Parma (including the corollarii[1] in the report of the first meeting) we dealt with the basics of our party doctrine, which ties in with the negation of individualism and personality; something with which not only the […]
Mao’s China, Certified Copy of the Bourgeois Capitalist Society, Amadeo Bordiga
Mao Zedong, in a speech given at the Supreme State Council on February 27th 1957, confirmed item-by-item, the doctrinal deviations that put the Chinese “communism” completely out of Marxism. Chinese revisionism rises from the desperate effort to display as a transition phase to socialism a form of state and a […]
Weird and Wonderful Tales of Modern Social Decadence, Amadeo Bordiga
Andrea Doria The safety of sea travellers seemed, with good reason, to have been assured for the future, both historically and scientifically, by the first application of mechanical motors to ships, and all the more so with the construction of metal hulls. After a century and a half of technical […]
Georg Lukásc – Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
One of the essays from ‘History and Class Consciousness’, Lukács’ best known and most influential work, Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat introduces his concept of reification, how reified consciousnesses have influenced philosophy and political thought, and the standpoint of the proletariat in history from a Marxian point of view.
Capitalism’s New Economy, ICT
An article published in 2005 by the CWO, dealing with the ‘new economy’ of capitalism based on finance and services, using the UK as a case study.
Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party, Bordiga
I Every class struggle is a political struggle (Marx). A struggle which limits itself to obtaining a new distribution of economic gains is not vet a political struggle because it is not directed against the social structure of the production relations. The disruption of the relations of production peculiar to […]