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The authors identify capitalism's decay as assuming forms of the prevention of communism. These - notably stalinism and social-democracy - are entirely dependent on capital as well as being its guarantors on a world scale. Yet resting neither upon the law of value nor on that of planning, they are inherently unstable and contain no dynamic towards transition. From Radical Chains no.1.

Buy this issue There is an urgent need to transcend the deep chasm in historical materialism, extending back to the 1920s, between the Western Marxist…

The Commune's Clifford Biddulph replies to the debate on the national question.

Gilles Dauvé and Karl Nesic look back over 12 years of their Troploin project and where to go from here amidst austerity and working class defeat.

Communism, political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society.

David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state.

"We dare not forget that our civilization was built by men and women who placed their faith in a loving God."

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, incorp...

The world turned upside down. The riots that began depopulating Americas major cities in late May are intersectionalitys apotheosis. Since blacks commit homicides at five times and other violent crimes at three times the rate of whites, confrontations between black criminals and police are quotidian. Violent reactions to such confrontations are common. Any number of personalities and organizations, mostly black, have made fortunes and careers exploiting them, e.g. New Yorks Al Sharpton. Increas...

A Conversation with Karl Comments Off on A Conversation with Karl Question 1: Dr Marx , you are well known as the author of a book on economics but I think you studied law at university, didn’t you? Karl Marx: Although I studied jurisprudence, I pursued it as a subject subordinated to philosophy and history. In the year 1842-43 , as editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, I first found myself in the embarrassing position of having to discuss what is known as material interests. The deliberation...