Topic: Tradition

Interview: Karl Marx

Speaking with Karl Marx

In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview. May 17, 2013
Column: Todd Chretien

The poverty of Proudhon's anarchism

In a short book critiquing an anarchist thinker, Marx clarified his understanding that there could be no individual or partial solution to exploitation. May 9, 2013
Comment: Joe Allen

Taking sides on Harrington

The discussion continues about the late Michael Harrington and the relevance of his legacy for rebuilding the left today. May 8, 2013
Comment: Bhaskar Sunkara

What we can learn from Harrington

The editor of Jacobin magazine replies to a discussion on 20th century socialist author and activist Michael Harrington. May 6, 2013
Comment: Joe Allen

What Harrington shows us

Did the democratic socialist Michael Harrington have the right idea about how radicals should "engage" politically? May 2, 2013
Column: Todd Chretien

Muck, filth, phantoms and revolution

The German Ideology shows Marx and Engels' developing views on history, capitalism and working-class revolution. May 1, 2013
Comment: Vladimir Lenin

Strikes and the working class

The Russian revolutionary describes the significance of strikes to the working-class movement and the fight for socialism. April 19, 2013
Comment: Karl Marx

Political indifferentism

If socialists are trying to make a revolution, does that mean they are indifferent to the bourgeois state or demands for reform? April 5, 2013
Column: Todd Chretien

Praxis makes perfect

In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx provided a short, important sketch that points to the relationship between ideas and practice. March 26, 2013
Comment: Paul LeBlanc

Leninism in the wake of Occupy

A discussion of Leninism and organization takes up questions raised by a layer of new activists in the Occupy movement. March 21, 2013
Lenin's idea of party-building

Paul LeBlanc's description of Lenin's thought on party-building differs from what a generation of working-class leaders believed. March 19, 2013
Leninism and organization today

Paul LeBlanc answers a critic of Leninism in the spirit of building revolutionary organizations in the here and now. March 14, 2013
There's no universal model of Leninism

What we have come to know as "Leninism" is a dead end that has blocked our own road to further success. March 12, 2013
Comment: Alexandra Kollontai

International Women's Day

A Russian revolutionary explains how a day of international solidarity with working women became the first day of the 1917 revolution. March 8, 2013
Comment: Todd Chretien

From the belly of the beast

With The Condition of the English Working Class, Frederick Engels developed the Marxist understanding of the class that could transform society. March 5, 2013
Comment: Leon Trotsky

For a workers' united front against fascism

Trotsky analyzed the rise of fascism in Germany and made the case for confronting it with the tactic of the "united front." March 1, 2013
Comment: Vladimir Lenin

Soviet power and the status of women

Bourgeois democracy promises liberty, but no bourgeois republic gave women the equality that Russia's revolutionary government did. February 22, 2013
Comment: Duncan Hallas

Towards a revolutionary socialist party

An organized layer of workers with a shared consciousness of the necessity for socialism and how to achieve it has to be created. February 15, 2013
Comment: Paul D'Amato

The SWP crisis and Leninism

A longstanding discussion on the left about Leninism and revolutionary organization has reemerged in a new light. February 11, 2013
Views in brief

Two Socialist Workers Party members criticize the ISO statement on their party's crisis, and an ISO member responds. February 7, 2013
Comment: Alexandra Kollontai

The women's question

In 1909, Russian revolutionary Alexandra Kollontai outlined the material basis for women's oppression, and how the working class can win liberation. February 1, 2013
Comment: Paul LeBlanc

Leninism is unfinished

An article on Leninism written in connection with the crisis of the SWP-Britain has raised issues of significance for socialists. February 1, 2013
Comment: Sharon Smith

Marxism, feminism and women's liberation

Marxists must not minimize the degree of oppression faced by women inside the working class, but rather make a serious effort on every front to combat it. January 31, 2013
Comment: Vladimir Lenin

The right to self-determination

In 1916, the leader of the Bolsheviks discussed the approach socialists should take to imperialism and national oppression. January 18, 2013
Analysis: Shaun Harkin

The case for socialist organization

The question of how revolutionary socialists organize--and what strategies, tactics and ideas they represent--is vitally important. January 16, 2013

Topic: Tradition

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