A Bourgeoisie in Waiting
For Marx, the Britain he had come to live in was a capitalist country governed by a landed oligarchy in the interest of its capitalist class. Men drawn from the ranks of the landowning class occupied...
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Marx, Co-operatives and Capitalism
The recent failure of the co-operative bank and its rescue by hedge funds seems an apt time to review Richard Wolff's latest book, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism(Haymarket Books), which...
View ArticleThe Poverty of Popper
Bryan Magee's biography of Karl Popper, the philosopher of science, described him as "the most formidable living critic of Marxism". He died last year but his reputation lingers on. He was born in...
View ArticleParty News: Marx Supports the Socialist Party - It's Official
Karl Marx was responsible for a recent donation of £500 to the Socialist Party. The explanation for this posthumous and politically sound generosity is as follows.The great-grandfather of one of our...
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Book Review: 'Marx in Manchester'
Early daysMarx in Manchester, Ruth and Edmund Frow (The Working Class Movement Library, Manchester £1.80p)Today, no public library is complete without a number of books dealing with Marxism on its...
View ArticleLetter: Marxist Ethic?
Letter to the Editors If ethics is taken to be, on the one hand, the negation of bourgeois ideology and morality and, on the other, as the intellectual and practical anticipation of the humanist values...
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Marx Against the State
In 1988 Alan Carter wrote a criticism of Marx's views from what he called a "libertarian communist" position under the title Marx: A Radical Critique. His basic argument was that Marx's theories of...
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Capitalism is the Wages System
The term "wages system" originated at the time of the Chartist agitation in the 1830s and 1840s. It had been coined by former "domestic workers", who had previously worked at home on their own spinning...
View ArticleBook Review: Marx's Letters to Kugelmann
Letters to Kugelmann . . . by Karl Marx. 148 pp., 3s. 6d. Cloth; 2s. Paper. Martin Lawrence Ltd., 33, Gt. James Street, London, W.C.1.Monday, 1 October 1934read more
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Book Reviews: 'Socialism and the Great War', &''Marx before Marxism'
The Second International and the 1914 War'Socialism and the Great War', by Professor Georges Haupt. Oxford University Press. £5.00.In this revised edition of a work published a few years ago in French...
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Book Review: 'Karl Marx, Our Contemporary'
Analysing Marx'Karl Marx, Our Contemporary. Socialists for a Post-Leninist World'. by Keith Graham. (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992. £35)Marx is our contemporary, argues Keith Graham in this book, in that...
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Book Review: 'The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx'
MARX IN MINIATURE'The Life and Teaching of Karl Marx', by M. Beer. National Labour Press, Ltd. 3s. 6d. net.As an example of stern compression and yet lucid exposition of Marx's teachings, this little...
View ArticleAt the Graveside of Karl Marx
On March 14th, 1883, Karl Marx breathed his last. He was buried a few days later in the same grave as his wife in the cemetery at Highgate, at that time a suburban part of the great metropolis of...
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Book Review: 'Farewell To Marx'
No Marx'Farewell To Marx: an outline and appraisal of His Theories', by David Conway (Penguin)In the continuing flood of literature about Marx and Marxism, whether hostile from the defenders of Market...
View ArticleIs the Marxian Theory of History Still Relevant?
Like Marx, we take the view that human existence is social existence which changes as an historical process. This is the very broad base from which we set out to explain human activity both now and in...
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Marx and Alienation
'Marx and Alienation'Speaker: Pieter LawrenceVenue: Prince Albert, Islington Recorded: Thursday, 12 March 1981Marx and Alienation pt.1.mp3Marx and Alienation pt.2.mp3
View ArticleNews from Nowhere
Samuel Butler's biting satire Erewhon (an anagram of "nowhere"), published in 1872, describes the sort of society found by the narrator in a remote mythical land in the Antipodes. A curious feature of...
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Book Review: 'Marx For Beginners'
All In Pictures'Marx For Beginners', by Rius. Writers & Readers Publishing Co-operative (London), £1.It had to come! Marx in comic-strip form! Friend Rius's amusing booklet has already achieved a...
View ArticleWhy I am a Socialist
I was not born a socialist. Although I was born social. We all are. As members of the human species, we are uniquely interdependent social animals, dependent for our survival upon co-operation. Born...
View ArticleRewriting Marx
We are used to various Leninist regimes distorting the views of Karl Marx to try to bring some kind of spurious legitimacy to their vile social systems. A recent, almost breathtaking, example occurred...
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