Monthly Archives: June 2023

Chris Hedges: What do you tell a terminal patient seeking relief? Yes, this period of distress may pass, but it’s not over. It will get worse. There will be more highs and lows and then mostly lows, and then death. … Continue reading →

George Lichtheim: I am not a liberal and never have been. I find liberalism almost as boring as communism and have no wish to be drawn into an argument over which of these two antiquated creeds is less likely to … Continue reading →

Marco D’Eramo, New Left Review: The media still denounces Putin’s atrocities and makes obligatory comparisons with the Hitlers and Stalins of the past, yet it does so with the enthusiasm of a bored schoolchild, almost as if le coeur n’y était … Continue reading →

[T]he entire publication of the Grundrisse took place under what may safely be regarded as the least favourable conditions for any original development of Marx studies and Marxist thinking, namely in the USSR and the German Democratic Republic, at the … Continue reading →

However, what will undoubtedly also strike the contemporary reader is the Manifesto‘s remarkable diagnosis of the revolutionary character and impact of ‘bourgeois society’. The point is not simply that Marx recognised and proclaimed the extraordinary achievements and dynamism of a … Continue reading →

The good social scientist, as Engels showed, could only be a person free from the illusions of bourgeois society. Ω Ω Ω It must not be forgotten that Engels was (unlike most other foreign visitors) no mere tourist, but a Manchester businessman … Continue reading →

The work begins with a brief sketch of that Industrial Revolution which transformed British society and created, as its chief product, the proletariat (chapters I—II). This is the first of Engels’ pioneering achievements, for the Condition is probably the earliest … Continue reading →