The growth of socialism
Eugen Debs
Not many of those schooled in old-party politics have any adequate conception of the true import of the labor movement. They read of it in the papers, discuss it in their clubs, criticise labor unions, condemn walking delegates, and finally conclude that organized labor is a thing to be tolerated so long, only, as it keeps within “proper bounds,” but to be put down summarily the moment its members, like the remnants of Indian tribes on the western (...)
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The growth of socialism, Eugen Debs
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C L R James, Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
23 August 2008, by Robert ParisC 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 (...) -
Shoichi Sakata, Theoretical physics and dialectics of nature
23 August 2008Shoichi Sakata, June 1947
Theoretical Physics and Dialectics of Nature Source: Supplement of the Progress of Theoretical Physics, No. 50 1971;
First published: in the October issue of the journal Chõ-ryü in 1947. Transcribed: for the Marxists Internet Archive by Andy Blunden. 1 Theoretical physics in our country has been known all over the world by the brilliant achievements of H. Yukawa. How could the theory of elementary particles have freely developed in such a society where the (...) -
Reform Or Revolution?
17 July 2008, by Robert ParisReform Or Revolution?
By Daniel DeLeon
An address delivered at
Wells’ Memorial Hall, Boston, Mass.,
January 26, 1896
Mr. Chairman and Workingmen of Boston:
I have got into the habit of putting two and two together, and drawing my conclusions. When I was invited to come to Boston, the invitation reached me at about the same time as an official information that a reorganization of the party was contemplated in the city of Boston. I put the two together and I drew the conclusion (...) -
A chronology of the european revolution (1917-1923)
4 July 2008, by Robert ParisChronology
1917
March 8 (February 23 in the old style): The Russian Revolution starts.
April 6-8: USPD formed.
November 7 (October 25): The Bolshevik-led Russian Revolution overturns Provisional Government.
December 22: Start of peace negotiations between Russia and Germany at Brest Litovsk. 1918
January 14: Mass strikes in Austria-Hungary.
January 28: Revolution in Finland - workers’ government installed.
January 28: Strikes break out of over one million in Berlin and (...) -
The chartist movement
4 July 2008, by Robert ParisWilliam Benbow (1784-?)
Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive Classes
Source: William Benbow, GRAND NATIONAL HOLIDAY, AND CONGRESS OF THE PRODUCTIVE CLASSES (1832), published by The Journeyman Press, London, 1977.
Transcribed: by Rob Lucas
Grand National Holiday, and Congress of the Productive Classes is a classic pamphlet of the British left. It was self-published by William Benbow - a publicist and pamphleteer who worked in a coffee house at 205 Fleet Street, (...) -
The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
25 June 2008The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008
Loren Goldner
ABSTRACT
Similar to patterns that have been played out in Spain and Portugal (1974-76) as well as in Brazil (1978-83) since the mid-1970’s, the Korean working class in the late 1980’s destroyed the foundations of a decades-old military dictatorship with remarkable mass strikes in the years 1987-1990. The strikes resulted in the creation, briefly (1990-1994) of radical democratic unions (...) -
The dialectic of geology
17 June 2008from " Reason in Revolt: Marxism and Modern Science"
By Alan Woods and Ted Grant
There is an English saying, "as solid as the ground under our feet." This comforting idea, however, is very far from the truth. The earth beneath our feet is not as solid as it seems. The rocks, the mountain ranges, the continents themselves, are in a continuous state of movement and change, the exact nature of which has only begun to be understood in the latter half of this century. Geology is the (...) -
Particle of matter or emergence of structure in the vacuum
10 June 2008, by Robert Paris"I admit that a being who exists somewhere, which does not correspond to any point of the space, a being who is dimentionless and occupies the extent, which is entirely under each part of this range, which differs mostly of matter and is its unit, which moves and who acts as motionless, which is constant and suffers all the vicissitudes of changing, a being of which I have not the faintest idea; a being who is so contradictory in nature is difficult to accept. "
Diderot in "Talks between (...) -
Communist Policy Toward Art
5 June 2008, by Robert ParisLeon Trotsky
Communist Policy Toward Art
(1923) It is untrue that revolutionary art can be created only by workers. Just because the revolution is a working-class revolution, it releases – to repeat what was said before – very little working-class energy for art. During the French Revolution, the greatest works which, directly or indirectly, reflected it, were created not by French artists, but by German, English, and others. The French bourgeoisie, which was directly concerned with (...)