C L R James Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism…
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Gandhi, Marx and the Ideal of an ‘Unalienated Life’
Akeel Bilgrami, Jipson John, and P. M. Jitheesh Akeel Bilgrami is an Indian philosopher of international eminence and scholarship. He graduated from Elphinstone College, University of Bombay, in 1970 and went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Thereafter, he moved to the United States and earned a PhD in philosophy from the…
How “The State and Revolution” Changed History
Brian Becker A barricade during The Paris Commune, 1871. Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism and revolution while on the run, living underground and hiding from…
The Communist Manifesto Study Guide
Liberation School Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto as “a complete theoretical and practical party program” for the initially German-based, and then international, Communist League. It was written and published during the heat of revolutionary uprisings in Europe in 1848, and continues to inspire revolutionary struggle across the globe today. We hope this…
The Great October Revolution: Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People
Farooque Chowdhury Abolishing all exploitation, completely eliminating the division of society into classes, mercilessly crushing the resistance of the exploiters, establishing a socialist organisation of society, and achieving the victory of socialism in all countries were declared as the fundamental aim of the newly established Soviet Russia, a Republic of Soviets of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies….
Philippines: Inside the New People’s Army
redfish Published on Apr 15, 2018 The New People’s Army is marking its 50th year of waging war against the U.S. sponsored Armed Forces of the Philippines. redfish went “underground” with one of the world’s oldest Communist insurgencies. redfish Published on Apr 15, 2018 Inside a base of Maoist guerrillas who control some of the…
What is Dialectical Materialism? An Introduction
Curry Malott After the deaths of Marx and Engels, socialists began taking up the important task of summarizing their work for popularization. In 1919, for example, Georg Lukács, the Hungarian Marxist, argued that the essence of Marx’s project is not the correctness or incorrectness of his many theses, but rather, his dialectical method. Stressing the…
Thomas Sankara and the Revolutionary Birth of Burkina Faso
Mamadou Diallo In 1983, 23 years after its independence and the succession of several neo-colonial regimes, the Upper Volta was one of the most materially destitute countries in the world. 98 percent of its population was illiterate and its GDP per capita was just over 100 dollars of the time. Out of the seven million…
Fidel: End of Colonialism Would Not Have Been Possible Without the October Revolution
“Without the October Revolution … it would not have been at all possible to end colonialism and liberate dozens of peoples on all continents,” Fidel said. A century ago, world history changed forever. The Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the most important events in contemporary history of mankind. This historic event, as well…
Workers World: 100th Anniversary of Bolshevik Revolution
Open Letter to Revolutionaries: How to commemorate the October Revolution Deirdre Griswold Part 1: From Marx’s view of social evolution to Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ Part 2: Social gains in early years of Soviet power Part 3: ‘Whose state? Our state’ – meaning all nationalities Part 4: External and internal problems, strengths and setbacks Part 5: To…
How the Russian Revolution Inspired and Assisted National Liberation Struggles
Rebeca Toledo When the Russian Revolution triumphed in October 1917, most of the rest of the world was colonized by the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United States. But under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin, the revolution became the inspiration for countless peoples, not only by showing that a workers’ state was…
The Russian Revolution, Africa and the Diaspora
This article is part of Black Perspective’s forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora. Hakim Adi From the time of the Great October Revolution in 1917, Africans and those of African heritage around the world gravitated towards the revolutionary events in Russia and Communism, seeing in them a path to their…
