Comrades ! Our task today is to discuss and adopt a program. In undertaking this task we are not motivated solely by the formal consideration that yesterday we founded a new independent party and that a new party must formulate an official program. Great historical movements have been the determining causes of today’s deliberations. The time has come when the entire Social Democratic socialist program of the proletariat has to be placed on a new foundation. Comrades ! In so doing, we (...)
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Our Program and the Political Situation (December 1918)
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Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in General
27 January 2022Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy in General
Karl Marx - 1844
This is perhaps the place at which, by way of explanation and justification, we might offer some considerations in regard to the Hegelian dialectic generally and especially its exposition in the Phänomenologie and Logik and also, lastly, the relation (to it) of the modern critical movement.[42]
So powerful was modern German criticism’s preoccupation with the past – so completely was its development entangled with the (...) -
Proletarians and Communism
25 January 2022Proletarians and Communism
Individuals, Class, and Community
In the Middle Ages the citizens in each town were compelled to unite against the landed nobility to save their skins. The extension of trade, the establishment of communications, led the separate towns to get to know other towns, which had asserted the same interests in the struggle with the same antagonist. Out of the many local corporations of burghers there arose only gradually the burgher class. The conditions of life (...) -
Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
24 January 2022Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Frederick Engels
PART I - HEGEL
The volume before us (1) carries us back to a period which, although in time no more than a generation behind us, has become as foreign to the present generation in Germany as if it were already a hundred years old. Yet it was the period of Germany’s preparation for the Revolution of 1848; and all that has happened since then in our country has been merely a continuation of 1848, merely the (...) -
Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association “The First International”
23 January 2022Inaugural Address of the International Working Men’s Association “The First International”
1864 - Marx/Engels
Workingmen:
It is a great fact that the misery of the working masses has not diminished from 1848 to 1864, and yet this period is unrivaled for the development of its industry and the growth of its commerce. In 1850 a moderate organ of the British middle class, of more than average information, predicted that if the exports and imports of England were to rise 50 per cent, (...) -
The Proletariat in Power, for Trotsky after 1905 Russian Revolution
22 January 2022The Proletariat in Power, for Trotsky after 1905 Russian Revolution
Revolution and the Proletariat
Revolution is an open measurement of strength between social forces in a struggle for power. The State is not an end in itself. It is only a machine in the hands of the dominating social forces. Like every machine it has its motor, transmitting and executive mechanism. The driving force of the State is class interest; its motor mechanism is agitation, the press, church and school (...) -
Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
21 January 2022Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Introduction
For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a (...) -
Leon Trotsky - The New Course (1923)
20 January 2022Leon Trotsky - The New Course (1923)
CHAPTER 1 The Question of the Party Generations
None of the resolutions adopted during the discussion in Moscow, the complaint is made that the question of party democracy has been complicated by discussions on the relationships between the generations, personal attacks, etc. This complaint attests to a certain mental confusion. Personal attacks and the mutual relationships between generations are two entirely different things. To pose now the (...) -
Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
19 January 2022Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos, being recognized for her talents within the capitalist system.
Theranos Conviction Shows that Lying and Fraud are Part of the System
Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of Theranos, a health technology company, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud investors and wire fraud. While we can all be happy that Holmes was caught in the act and has fallen from her perch of wealth and power, we should not lose sight of the larger lessons – that Holmes and (...) -
Trotsky’s Place In History
18 January 2022Trotsky’s Place In History, By C.L.R. James
THE bourgeoisie, perforce lacking historical method and suborning all aspects of life to the maintenance of power, has not only confused the proletariat but has confused itself in the estimation of what constitutes greatness in contemporary men. Woodrow Wilson, Poincaré, Stanley Baldwin and similar mediocrities have all been crowned with the laurel, not excluding Nicholas Murray Butler, on the score presumably that he had dined often with the (...)