From the Classics: Lenin on the Nature of the State
From Lenin’s The State and Revolution, 1917 The State: A Product of the Irreconcilability of...
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From the Classics: Lenin on Revolutionary Situations
From Lenin’s The Collapse of the Second International, part II (1915): “To the...
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From the Classics: Marx and Engels on the Class Struggle
From The Communist Manifesto (1848): The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the...
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From the Classics: Marx on Religion
Marx’s view of religion was subtle and complex and went far beyond the well-known...
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From the Classics: Engels’ Speech at the Gravesite of Karl Marx
Frederick Engels’ Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx Highgate Cemetery, London. March 17, 1883...
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From the Classics: Marx and Engels on Ideology
The Marxist theory of ideology — how social ideas and social consciousness arise from the...
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From the Classics: Lenin on Capitalism and Armaments
Written in May 1913 not long before the beginning of the First World War, Lenin had his eye on the...
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From the Classics: Marx and Engels on the Primacy of the Class Struggle
From The Communist Manifesto (1848): The history of all hitherto existing society(2) is the...
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From the Classics: Lenin on Opportunism
V. I. Lenin: From his Differences in the European Labour Movement (December 1910) The...
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From the Classics: Henry Winston on Anti-Slavery and Anti-Monopoly Movements (1973)
Henry Winston was national chairman of the CPUSA up until his death in 1986. In Chapter 14 of one...
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From the Classics: Lenin on War and Revolution
Lenin gave this lecture on the class nature of war policy in May 1917, i.e., after the overthrow...
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From the Classics: Lenin on Opposing ‘One’s Own’ Imperialism
The Defeat of One’s Own Government in the Imperialist War In July 1915, when this article was...
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From the Classics: Lenin on the Place of Imperialism in History
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
from Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916
We have seen that in its economic essence imperialism is monopoly capitalism. This in itself determines its place in history
From the Classics: Lenin on the New Economic Policy (NEP)
The NEP ( 1921-29) was the economic policy of the Soviet state aimed at restoring the alliance...
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From the Classics: Engels on the Birth of Scientific Socialism
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) Whilst, however, the revolution in the conception of...
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From the Classics: Marx on Religion
Marx’s view of religion was subtle and complex and went far beyond the well-known...
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From the Classics: Lenin on Soviet Power and the Status of Women
Written in Pravda, November 6, 1919 Source: Women and Communism, Lawrence & Wishart, London,...
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From the Classics: Marx on the Fundamental Law of Social Development
From Karl Marx, A Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy, 1859 “In the...
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