Topic: Tradition

  • A world to win

    Marx and Engels summarized their ideas in the most famous revolutionary pamphlet of all times, published as the revolutions of 1848 began.

  • Talking about Socialism

    The Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago on June 27-30 will bring together hundreds of people seeking to understand the world--and how to change it.

  • Karl Marx, radical environmentalist

    Activists today have much to gain by engaging with the ecological critique of capitalism developed by Marx and Engels in the 19th century.

  • Ready for the revolutionary wave

    Marx and Engels could sense the upheavals of 1848 ahead--and prepared by building organizations to stand for socialist ideas.

  • Proudhon's ideas and social change

    Karl Marx took issue with how Pierre-Joseph Proudhon formulated his ideas as a strategy for social change.

  • Speaking with Karl Marx

    In 1879, a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune sat down with the "cornerstone of modern socialism" for an interview.

  • 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.

  • Taking sides on Harrington

    The discussion continues about the late Michael Harrington and the relevance of his legacy for rebuilding the left today.

  • What we can learn from Harrington

    The editor of Jacobin magazine replies to a discussion on 20th century socialist author and activist Michael Harrington.

  • What Harrington shows us

    Did the democratic socialist Michael Harrington have the right idea about how radicals should "engage" politically?

  • Muck, filth, phantoms and revolution

    The German Ideology shows Marx and Engels' developing views on history, capitalism and working-class revolution.

  • Strikes and the working class

    The Russian revolutionary describes the significance of strikes to the working-class movement and the fight for socialism.

  • Political indifferentism

    If socialists are trying to make a revolution, does that mean they are indifferent to the bourgeois state or demands for reform?

  • Praxis makes perfect

    In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx provided a short, important sketch that points to the relationship between ideas and practice.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Leninism and organization today

    Paul LeBlanc answers a critic of Leninism in the spirit of building revolutionary organizations in the here and now.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The SWP crisis and Leninism

    A longstanding discussion on the left about Leninism and revolutionary organization has reemerged in a new light.

  • Views in brief

    Two Socialist Workers Party members criticize the ISO statement on their party's crisis, and an ISO member responds.