Subjects Archives: Marxism

There is much to say on behalf of Vanessa Christina Wills’ Marx’s Ethical Vision, which not only advances Marxist scholarship but takes a strong, well-founded position regarding some of the most vexing and significant questions confronting anyone who would grasp his philosophical thought.

In this republished essay from 1996, Samir Amin gives his view of Samuel Huntington’s theory of “clash of civilizations.” His demonstration of why culturalism and imperialism reinforce each other, and how victims can be led to accept “difference” in place of equality and liberation, is today of potential utility everywhere.

In the second congress of the CPM-K, delegates called for the continuation of the National Democratic Revolution and asserted that socialism is the only path forward.

The scariest question that pops up when thinking about a second Donald Trump presidency is, “How bad can it get?”

Donald Trump’s threat to force through his slate of far-right cabinet nominees as “recess appointments” without Senate confirmation votes marks a significant step in the de jure breakdown of constitutional forms of government.

In “the street”, in friends’ meetings, in the press… everywhere the population wonders about the veracity, depth and state of the division within the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS).

In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Crisis is endemnic to capitalism, writes Alex Snowdon in his monthly Marxism 101 column.

Irrespective of the rhetoric that characterized the campaign, the world’s majority will continue to be compelled to struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

Deirbhle Sheppard highlights the shocking and persistent extent of sexual violence in our society. She unscrambles the false myths put out by the far right and argues that in fighting these, we need to join together to fight all forms of gender oppression.

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump. 

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.

John Rees on why Trump won.

Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris must be a wake up call to Black people. The Democratic Party is a dead end and a movement killer. Our survival depends on getting that corrupt wing of the duopoly out of our lives and out of our politics.

His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades.

Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you.

Unearthing the chapter on fascism from Paul Sweezy’s The Theory of Capitalist Development (Monthly Review Press, January 1942).