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    Is nature dialectical?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on July 18, 2026 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

  • FADING POPULARITY: Philosopher Slavoj Zizek has adopted pro-Nato positions. Photo: Andy Miah/Creative Commons

    What is (or was) ‘Western Marxism’?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 11, 2026 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in–and acceptable to–the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

  • PERFECTLY ILLUSTRATED: Unionised GMB workers rally outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry during a strike in January 2023

    What’s the difference between ‘absolute’ and ‘relative’ surplus value?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 2023 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out.

  • ‘degrowth’

    What should we do about ‘degrowth’?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on August 26, 2024 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    The ‘degrowth’ debate raises critical issues to which only a Marxist approach can provide answers, argues the Marx Memorial Library.

  • NHS

    What is the ‘social wage?’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on July 8, 2024 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    The fight to defend public services is as important as the struggle over wages, but presents different challenges to workplace organising — especially with regards to bourgeois propaganda and conditioning, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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