An analysis of the end of the Salazar and Franco regimes and the transition crises that marked " the last major working class upsurges in the West in the era of the big factory".
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An idea that has taken possession of the masses becomes material.
Yesterday they again recalled the “attempt” and told new chillingly horrid details of the conspiracy, writes the Telegram channel Letters to Daughter.
Everything is as usual: enemies surrounded from all sides, bullets whistled directly overhead. Well, it s a common thing, right?
And you know, I wanted to talk to you about this “usual” thing for a long time, but somehow I could not find the right moment. It seems to me that these counter-terrorism games are the most dangerous undertaking of the Belarusian authorities. Now I m not talking about the people whom they decided to mark as figurants. And not about the huge risks to the society. I am now talking about the danger to the authorities themselves.
March 5, 2021
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from MROnline It is clear today that the emancipation of labour from capitalist alienation and exploitation is a task that still confronts us. Marx’s concept of the worker is not limited to European white males, but includes Irish and Black super-exploited and therefore doubly revolutionary workers, as well as women of all races and nations. But, his research and his concept of revolution go further, incorporating a wide range of agrarian non-capitalist societies of his time, from India to Russia and from Algeria to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, often emphasising their gender relations. In his last, still partially unpublished writings, he turns his gaze Eastward and Southward. In these regions outside Western Europe, he finds important revolutionary possibilities among peasants and their ancient communistic social structures, even as these are being undermined by their formal subsumption
March 5, 2021
Imprecor[1], the French-language journal of the Fourth International, is an excellent piece overall. However, I would like to point out that his statement about Russian Marxism includes a couple of misunderstandings.
Was Plekhanov a mechanical economist?
Michael Löwy criticizes Russian Marxism s abandonment of late Karl Marx s theory of the future Russian revolution (as expressed in the preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto), as follows:
Marx and [Friedrich] Engels had not hesitated to suggest, in their preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto (1882), that If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development . However, after their deaths, this perspective on the Russian revolution, which raised the suspicion that it would resemble the vision of