Subjects Archives: Marxism

Some critics argue that the Internal Colony Theory is outdated. Here’s why they’re wrong

The internal neocolonialism thesis is not “race-centric” but anti-colonial, and explains Black elite behavior.

Venezuela's President and presidential candidate Hugo Chavez gestures to supporters during his closing campaign rally in Caracas October 4, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo (VENEZUELA - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)

Chavez the Radical XXIV: “The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It, not to the Large Landowners”

The latest episode of Tatuy TV’s “Chavez the Radical” focuses on the question of land ownership in Venezuela, an issue that remains at the heart of the struggle in the countryside.

The City Hall (Dutch: Stadhuis) of Antwerp, Belgium, stands on the western side of Antwerp's Grote Markt (Great Market Square). Erected between 1561 and 1565 after designs made by Cornelis Floris de Vriendt and several other architects and artists, this Renaissance building incorporates both Flemish and Italian influences. The City Hall is inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List along with the belfries of Belgium and France. Margaret of Parma hands over the keys to the city, by Henri Leys In the 16th century Antwerp became one of the busiest trading ports and most prosperous cities in Northern Europe. The municipal authorities wished to replace Antwerp's small medieval town hall with a more imposing structure befitting the prosperity of the great port city. Antwerp architect Domien de Waghemakere drafted a plan (c. 1540) for a new building in a style typical of the monumental Gothic town halls of Flanders and Brabant. But the threat of war prevented any progress on the project. The building materiasl intended for the city hall were instead used to shore up the city defenses. Not until about 1560 new plans were developed. In the meantime Gothic architecture had gone out of fashion. The new designs for the city hall were in the new Renaissance style. Completed in 1565, the building lasted hardly a decade before being burnt to a shell in the Spanish Fury of 1576. It was restored three years later. The low arcaded ground story is of rusticated stone, and at one time housed little shops. Above are two stories with Doric and Ionic columns separating large mullioned windows, and a fourth story forming an open gallery. The richly ornamented central section, which rises above the eaves in diminishing stages, holds female statues representing Justice, Prudence, and the Virgin Mary, and bears the coats of arms of the Duchy of Brabant, the Spanish Habsburgs, and the Margraviate of Antwerp. Renovations during the late 19th century by architects Pierre Bruno Bourla, Joseph

Belgium Worker’s Party obtains excellent results in federal, regional and European elections

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After a phenomenal and social campaign, the Belgian Workers’ Party (PTB-PVDA) has confirmed its progress throughout the country, with results ranging from 6.6% in Flanders to over 12% in Brussels and 13.5% in Wallonia. The genuine left thus sends 12 members to the federal parliament, 1 member to the European Parliament, 11 members to the […]

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez insisted that Cuba will not be intimidated by new U.S. restrictions and threats. Photo- Juvenal Balán

They cannot stop us. We will live and triumph.

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Yesterday the U.S. Treasury Department added to sanctions announced April 17, and the activation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, the prohibition of “people to people” cultural and educational trips, plus others related to travel and transportation services, remittances, banking, commerce, and telecommunications

Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States in front of the German parliament, December 11, 1941. © Bundesarchiv

Big lies

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Benjamin Carter Hett on what we can learn from Hitler’s rise to power

Watching ‘When They See Us’, as a white woman

Zillah Eisenstein

In order to really see these boys and their families white people have to see themselves as participatory in racism. So to see their innocence “we” must see our own part, our guilt, our responsibility in the newest forms of slavery, no longer chattel, but carceral.

Rudolf Herrmann portrait of Friedrich Engels

Engels on the importance of Hegel to Marxism

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The inversion of Hegel’s dialectics is based on the assumption that it is the “self-development of the idea” of which, therefore, the dialectic of facts is only the image, while the dialectic in our minds is but the reflection of the actual development taking place in the natural world and human history in obedience to […]

Michael Heinrich (Image derived from http://marx-biografie.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/MH_bea.jpg)

Interview with Michael Heinrich

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Think about it: when we look at our own biography, to what influenced us, why we became what we became, why we became leftists, very often there are already events in childhood. When you were a youngster, perhaps there was a teacher, who influenced you or an early friend, who opened your eyes to this […]

Regime change through social media

Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford

“If you can actually influence how people think, through social media, then you can have a lot more control” of their political behavior, said Valentine.

Evo Morales marks 13 years as Bolivia's president as he plans to ... Independent.ie Bolivia's President Evo Morales waves as he arrives at Congress (Juan Karita:AP)

The people are with Evo: a glimpse at a new Bolivia

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e are going through difficult times, and we are hoping that there is light at the end of the tunnel and that we will set an example for the world. Only by organizing ourselves and continuously resisting without arms will democracy triumph again.

Revolutions and imperialist aggression

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Throughout history, revolutions for national liberation and socialism, even progressive governments, have been the victims of systematic imperialist assaults.

India, ideology and the New York Times

Malhar Dandekar

Liberals of all stripes ought to, in the years to come, pay careful attention to the way language is deployed in public discourse, to recognize shibboleths and call them out. Neoliberal reforms were smuggled in via this route, and if the exit-polls are to be believed, fascism will be next.

Socialism–the Litmus test for authentic African leadership

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A man lost in the desert needs water and lots of it. If instead, a rescuer gives him a really excellent novel and a comb, the desperate man will be confused and angry.

Defending Chavez’s project today

Cira Pascual Marquina

I began to work directly with Comandante Hugo Chavez in May 1996. By that time, Chavez was already exploring the idea of participating in elections.

The Yellow Vests of France: six months of struggle

Richard Greeman

What if they succeed? We know what the ‘success’ of structured parties like Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain led to. Maybe a horizontal federation of autonomous base-groups attempting to re-invent democracy could do better.

Marxism and eurocentrism

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Race, class and identity A conference hosted by International Socialism Journal 18th May 2019 central London Marxism and Eurocentrism.

Image Credit: Karl Marx statue (Jörg Schubert CC BY 2.0)

An anthropology of Marxism

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Beyond its analytical value, Robinson’s account holds great potential as a tool of political praxis. For what Anthropology confronts is the question of how exactly are we to make sense of the cultural and political significance of Europe’s medieval period in our current global moment?