Subjects Archives: Marxism

Header image: Two young women take selfies with a statue of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels during an exhibition commemorating Marx’s 200th birthday in Beijing, May 5, 2018. Chen Xiaogen/People Visual

Fed up with capitalism, young Chinese brush up on ‘Das Kapital’

With a new generation increasingly burned out by the “996” grind and liberal platitudes of their elders, can Marxism make a comeback?

The new-style pop histories making socialism cool again

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Online and on social media, popular historians are helping young Chinese reframe the country’s leftist past in a more positive light.

Should the left care about blockchain technology?

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Despite its utopian promises of digital democracy, Thomas Redshaw argues socialists should be wary of embracing blockchain technology.

Publicity for Engels in Eastbourne, reproduced courtesy of designer Nic Watts

Friedrich Engels at 200: A revolutionary historian

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Engels’ study of The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) is a pioneering work of urban political ecology and urban sociology, that offers a vivid and human portrayal of the horrors which accompanied the Industrial Revolution.

Fruit vendor in Dharwad, India (Photo: Pikist)

The pillage of resources: A glimpse into the lives and labor of marginalized women

Sujata Gothoskar and Ranjana Padhi

Lives of women dependent on natural resources, such as land, forests, rivers, and mountains, are being tossed asunder by the appropriation and expropriation of these resources by corporations and the state.

Israel Police Brutality Protest Turns Violent Against Ethiopians 5-4-2015 TheLipTV

A racist endeavor: Zionist Israel’s Black Jewish victims of color

Gavin Lewis

Even when reports of its racism escape this ideological censorship, examples of racism in Israel are treated as isolated incidents, rather than systemic characteristics of the entire racist regime.

Engels against reformism in Germany and France

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Friedrich Engels was born 200 years ago today. Modern reformists like to cite Engels as an authority. But until his very last day, Engels fought against reformist ideas and for revolutionary principles.

Venezuela wins simply by holding an election

Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron

The upcoming legislative elections in Venezuela are going to be held in a context of great adversity are an important step in the democratic recuperation of the country’s institutions from the U.S.-backed opposition.

Age of capital

David Ruccio

It was during the “age of capital,” as the illustrious British historian Eric Hobsbawm aptly called it, that Marx formulated his critique of political economy.

S. Pudjanadi, Kaum Tani Menuntut (‘Peasants Make Demands’), published in Harian Rakyat, 21 June 1964. The demands read, from top to bottom: UUPA (‘agrarian law 1960’), UUD 45 (‘Indonesian 1945 constitution’) and demokrasi (‘democracy’).

Dossier 35: The Legacy of Lekra: Organising revolutionary culture in Indonesia

The Tricontinental

Martin Aleida recalls the moment he was released from prison at the end of 1966. At twenty-two, Martin emerged from nearly a year behind bars to Jakarta, unable to find his friends and comrades.

Parliamentary Elections in Venezuela: All you need to know

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For the first time in recent history, Venezuela’s left is divided. Will this disrupt the PSUV’s plans to retake control of the National Assembly?

200th birth anniversary of Friedrich Engels

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The birth anniversary of Friedrich Engels, collaborator, co-thinker and a long-time friend of Karl Marx falls tomorrow, 28 November 2020.

Profits over people: Frontline workers during the pandemic

Martin Hart-Landsberg

It wasn’t that long ago that the country celebrated frontline workers by banging pots in the evening to thank them for the risks they took doing their jobs during the pandemic.

Biden, the emcee at the Billionaires’ Ball

Glen Ford

The Lords of Capital use periods of crisis to devour the less-rich and reshape the political economy to their further advantage, so that the Joe Bidens of the world jump higher and come quicker when summoned.

Engels still lives at 200

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Today marks 200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels, the revolutionary leader who, side by side with Marx, elaborated a good part of what we know today as the theoretical bases of Marxism and built the first international organizations of “insurrectionist wage slaves” who adopted communism as the name for their objective.