Category: Marxist Education

Occasionally individuals complain that I fail to address one subject or another. One Berkeley denizen got in my face and announced: “You leftists ought to become aware of the ecological crisis.” In fact, I had...

Perhaps it’s one of history’s surprises that the popular uprising surging through Spain today (and which is beginning to reverberate throughout the rest of Europe) was sparked on the 140th anniversary of the Paris...

Prof. Roger Keeran, a labor and policy studies coordinator at the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies in New York, explains what McCarthyism was and was not during the 50’s. Dr. Keeran is author of the history,...

There is only one historical truth, the one written by the peoples! The Fourth European Communist Meeting education was held in Brussels on February 5th. This year the meeting engaged with the distortion of the history of the...

In recent years the question of “what is to be done” has confronted Russian Social-Democrats with particular insistence. It is not a question of what path we must choose (as was the case in the late eighties and...

This is Chapter Five of Communists Today (Kommunisten Heute) by Hans Heinz Holz. Chapter Five is entitled “Towards a Clear Understanding of Our Epoch.” Other chapters are posted on MLToday.com. We thank the Northern...

In this chapter Comrade Holz refutes the prevailing myth that classes and class struggle have disappeared, while recognising that changes have taken place in class structure and the class experience. The material lends itself...

In this chapter leading German communist philosopher Hans Heinz Holz defends the use by Marxists of the term “General Crisis of Capitalism” to define the current era, although he points out that it was often misused...

Notes for Class Tutors In this chapter Comrade Holz stresses the need to have a clear theoretical understanding and analysis in order to map out the way forward. It is a militant defence of dialectical and historical...

This material is courtesy of the Northern Committee of the Communist Party of Britain.  Leading German communist philospher Hans Heinz Holz was one of the keynote speakers at the Communist University of Britain, held at Ruskin...

What Does it Mean to be a Communist Today? Since the break-up of the socialist societies in eastern Europe, a deep-seated insecurity has spread among many communists (and also many communist parties) over what should constitute...

Third and final part The laws of dialectical development The law of transformation of quantity into quality shows the way the way in which development occurs, the mechanism of that process. It expresses the interconnection of...

An opening given by Peter Hendy to the New Worker Supporters Group meeting in Manchester on 6th March 2008. Materialism versus idealism The philosophy of Marxism is materialism, wrote Lenin. Philosophy itself fits into two great...