BACON – HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
There was already being accomplished the abandonment of the content which lies beyond us, and which through its form has lost the merit it possessed of being true, and is become of no significance to self-consciousness or the certainty of self and of its actuality; this we see for the first time consciously expressed, though not as yet in a very perfect form, by Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans. He is therefore instanced as in the (...)
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BACON – HEGEL’S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
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Ignace Reiss assassinated by Stalin
5 December 2021, by Robert ParisLeon Trotsky
A Tragic Lesson
(September 1937)
In the death of Ignace Reiss there is an element of great tragedy.
By breaking with the Comintern and the G.P.U. Reiss gave proof of his courage as a revolutionist. He knew better than anybody else the danger that threatened his transfer of allegiance from the camp of the Thermidorian hellhounds to the camp of revolution. Reiss’s conduct could have been dictated only by high ideological considerations, and thereby alone he has earned (...) -
Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
4 December 2021C.L.R. James 1947
Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (...) -
Hegel’s Philosophy of History - Introduction
3 December 2021Philosophy of History
Introduction
Geographical Basis of History.
Contrasted with the universality of the moral Whole and with the unity of that individuality which is its active principle, the natural connection that helps to produce the Spirit of a People, appears an extrinsic element; but inasmuch as we must regard it as the ground on which that Spirit plays its part, it is an essential and necessary basis. We began with the assertion that, in the History of the World, the Idea (...) -
Leon Trotsky - Workers’ Control of Production
29 September 2021, by Robert ParisLeon Trotsky
Workers’ Control of Production
(August 1931)
In answering your question I will endeavor to jot down here, as a preliminary to an exchange of opinions, a few general considerations pertaining to the slogan of workers’ control of production.
The first question that arises in this connection is: Can we picture workers’ control of production as a stable regime, not everlasting, of course, but of quite long duration? In order to reply to the question it is necessary to (...) -
Hegel in English
31 May 2021Hegel in English
The Philosophy of Nature
The Philosophy of Spirit
The Science of Logic
Hegel’s Phenomenology of Mind
Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1830) Part One
Hegel’s Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline
The Doctrine of the Essence
The Legacy of Hegel
Critique of Hegel’s (...) -
Jim Crow in Los Angeles
24 December 2020“Jim Crow in Los Angeles”, Hal Draper, 1947
Over a hundred thousand people in Los Angeles live in a concentration camp.
Not the kind you read about over in Europe. No barbed wire, no gas chambers. That isn’t the only thing that makes a concentration camp.
Racial segregation, restriction of liberty, brutality in uniform, vigilante storm-troopers on the loose – these make the concentration camps that exist in American cities, and in Los Angeles.
They are the Jim Crow ghettos. Behind (...) -
The Comintern and the GPU - The Attempted Assassination of May 24 (1940) and the Communist Party of Mexico
20 September 2020Siqueiros, the Stalinist Assassin
Leon Trotsky
The Comintern and the GPU
The Attempted Assassination of May 24 (1940) and the Communist Party of Mexico
(August 1940)
Original 1940 introduction by Fourth International
EDITORIAL NOTE: This article was finished by Leon Trotsky a few days before his assassination. He intended it for the Mexican court in relation to the machine gun assault by Stalin’s GPU upon his bedroom on May 24, but so wrote it that it could be used for general (...) -
Rosa Luxemburg against reformism
30 August 2020Rosa Luxemburg
Opportunism and the art of the possible
(September 1898)
Comrade Heine, as is well known, has written a pamphlet for the party conference entitled To Vote or Not to Vote? In it he comes out in favour of our participating in Prussian Landtag elections. It is not the main subject of his pamphlet that leads us to make a few necessary remarks, but rather the two terms which he mentions in his line of argument, and to which we react with particular sensitivity in (...) -
The old world collapses ! The new world, in germs, has a great future !
19 août 2020, par F. Kletz, Robert ParisThe old world collapses ! The new world, in germs, has a great future !
According to the governments, the second wave of covid-19 is coming and they are preparing to fight against it… but they are lying. Indeed, there was never a first wave that would have be broken under the action of the public authorities. The first wave hasn’t stopped at all. It i’s the same pandemic and the same wave of covid is continuing. In summer, in the midst of general deconfinement, we reached the peaks of (...)