What distinguishes revolutionaries from Trotskyism? Submitted by International Review on 5 November, 2009 We are publishing two articles from Internationalisme, organ of the Gauche Communiste de France[1] dedicated to the question of Trotskyism and written in 1947. At this time, Trotskyism had already abandoned proletarian internationalism by participating in the Second World War, unlike the […]
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Ten Theses on Marxism Today – Karl Korsch
1. It no longer makes sense to ask to what extent the teaching of Marx and Engels is, today, theoretically acceptable and practically applicable. 2. Today, all attempts to re-establish the Marxist doctrine as a whole in its original function as a theory of the working classes social revolution are reactionary utopias. […]
Capitalism under the Red Banner: Seventy Years of the People’s Republic of China, ICT
Seventy years ago, on 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was proclaimed by Mao. Here we reproduce an article which originally appeared in Communist Review 8 (January 1990), published by the ICT (or IBRP as it was then) in the aftermath of the suppression of the Tiananmen Square […]
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 […]
The Degeneration of the Russian Revolution, John
An essay examining the causes of the degeneration of the Russian Revolution, as well as the symptoms of the switch from dictatorship of the proletariat, to dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
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.
The Defeat of Brest-Litovsk, Karl Radek
A 1918 article criticising the foreign policy of Soviet Russia as an abandonment of internationalism.
The Red Army, Karl Radek
This 1918 article criticises the formation of the Red Army as a replacement of the Red Guard militia, a crucial turning point in the degeneration of the Russian Revolution.