Liberation School Course description: The U.S. economy is experiencing an intense economic crash. Despite what mainstream pundits say, the crash isn’t just the result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this course, we’ll get at some of the root causes of the crisis by collectively studying the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital: A Critique of…
Category: Marxism
Alexandra Kollontai: A Historical-Materialist Approach to the Family and Love
Jodi Dean Liberation School Editor’s note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People’s Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai’s writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai’s struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as…
Marxism and African Liberation
Speech by Walter Rodney At Queen’s College, New York, USA in 1975 Written:1975 First Published:1975 Source: From Yes to Marxism!, People’s Progressive Party, Georgetown, Guyana, 1986 Translated: Unknown Transcription/Markup:Susan Campbell, Steve Palmer Proofread: Unknown Copyleft:Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the terms of the Creative Commons License First of all, we must understand…
A New Era in World History
Vladimir Ilich Lenin Work by Miguel Ángel Nin, courtesy of José Martí National Library On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Granma shares several quotes from the Russian revolutionary’s seminal works: We have created a Soviet type of state and by that we have ushered in a…
Lenin, 150 Years After His Birth
Atilio Borón Vladimir Illich Ulyanov was born in 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia. He was the founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolshevik), the undisputed leader of the first triumphant worker-peasant insurrection on a national scale in the history of humanity: the October Revolution in Russia (which brought to an end that which the heroic Paris…
Marx and the Indigenous
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman Volume 71, Issue 9 (February 2019) #NoDAPL by the Palestinian artist, Leila Abdelrazaq. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that…
A New Revolutionary Subject
Marta Harnecker and Tassos Tsakiroglou This exchange between Marta Harnecker and Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou was conducted in advance of the conference on 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: Reflections for the Twenty-First Century, held in Athens in January 2017. The interview first appeared in the Greek newspaper Efmerida ton Syntakton. What follows is a revised…
The Rise of the Right
John Bellamy Foster and Farooque Chowdhury Kalispera Dell, CC BY 3.0, Link. The following interview of Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, completed on August 5, 2019, was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury for Kolkata’s famous socialist magazine Frontier Weekly and is slated to appear this month in their special Autumn issue. It was thus originally…
Women, Class, and Identity Politics: Reflections on Feminism and Its Future
Martha E. Gimenez It is always necessary to distinguish between the material conditions of production [and, I add, reproduction]…and the ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. —Karl Marx1 I In her rightfully celebrated 1969 article, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” Margaret Benston articulated several of the…
Che Guevara: A Singular Letter
María del Carmen Ariet García This article is taken from volume 8 of the journal Paradigma, Anuario Institucional del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, dedicated to the Socialist Transition in Cuba, which will be presented soon. The letter to which reference is made appears in the book “Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967”. “I write…
Guevara in the Reflections of Anastás Mikoyán
Ernesto Che Guevera with Anastás Mikoyán, first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Excerpt from the book “Anatomy of the Caribbean Crisis” by Sergo Mikoyán, Chapter XIV, “Che Guevara”. Fragments of an interview with journalist I.R. Grigulievich granted by Anastás Mikoyán, a few months before his death. You were able to meet…
Race, Class and Identity
A one-day conference hosted by International Socialism Saturday 18 May, 10am – 5pm Questions of identity and their relation to racism and oppression are centre stage in these divided and dangerous times. This conference looks at the impact of renewed ‘identity politics’ on those who want to fight for genuine liberation and get rid of…
