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May 5th is the birth date of Karl Marx, one of humanity’s most influential theorists.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, Engels, and the Theory of Socialism (tags)
The theoretical foundations of socialism as put forth by Frederick Engels in his book Anti-Dühring are still valid today and schould for the basis of the OCW movements around the world.
Fukushima Mon Horreur - The Dream of Economic Reason Gives Birth to Tremendous Catastrophe (tags)
In "Anti-Duhring," Frederick Engels explained that nature also has a history and that capitalism tends to destroy its own foundations and nature. The negative is bound to the positive as conservation of energy is bound to transformation of energy.
The Strategic Role of the Role of the United Front (tags)
What distinguished Marx from all his contemporaries who professed revolutionary aspirations was his identification of the revolutionary agent: “The emancipation of the working classes [of every country] must be conquered by the working classes themselves….”
Leopards Can’t Change Their Spots, Nor Can Capitalists (tags)
Despite all the rhetoric, nothing much has changed and the fundamental contradictions of the system remain. The only solution is to rid ourselves of it.
A party lives when there is the existence of a doctrine and a method of action. A party is a school of political thought and consequently an organisation of struggle. The first characteristic is a fact of consciousness, the second is a fact of will, or more precisely of a striving towards a final end.
“Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” (Calvin 1962)
The Permanent Revolution: Battle cry of the 21st Century (tags)
On the trotskyist review Marxism Alive 2 - October 2000
RW: Lost Treasures of Humanity (tags)
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William Mandel, American Dissident (tags)
"If you think that I am going to cooperate with this collection of Judases, of men who sit there in violation of the United States Constitution, if you think I will cooperate with you in any manner whatsoever, you are insane!" From William Mandel’s 1960 testimony before HUAC
Afghanistan by Frederick Engels (tags)
Frederick Engels AFGHANISTAN [40] Source: MECW Volume 18, p. 40; Written: in July and the first 10 days of August 1857; First published: in The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, 1858. Transcribed: Andy Blunden, 2001. Review of J W Kaye’s The Afghan War, by Engels Afghanistan, an extensive country ...
Afghanistan by Frederick Engels (tags)
Frederick Engels AFGHANISTAN [40] Source: MECW Volume 18, p. 40; Written: in July and the first 10 days of August 1857; First published: in The New American Cyclopaedia, Vol. I, 1858. Transcribed: Andy Blunden, 2001. Review of J W Kaye’s The Afghan War, by Engels Afghanistan, an extensive country ...