“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people's lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. THE WORD "idealism" is usually used ...

Mehring Books continues its Winter Recommended Reading Series, in which writers for the World Socialist Web Site are asked to share their thoughts about works of Marxist literature that have ...

This is the text of a lecture delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the University of ...

This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological ...

DIALECTICAL materialism, as taught to us candidate cadres of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) at the advent of ...

Marx’s work enabled us to understand the basic dynamic of capitalism, its place in the history of civilisations, and learn from the historical ebb and flow of the class struggle. As Engels said at the ...

Uluslararası İlişkiler / International Relations, Vol. 21, No. 82, Special Issue: Marxism and International Relations: Still a Case of Mutual Neglect (2024), pp. 5-20 (16 pages) Although the neglect ...

Our own frequent commenter Carlo Lancellotti, translator of the late Italian philosopher Augusto del Noce (see The Crisis of Modernity and The Age of Secularization) has written a terrific article for ...

Originally published in 1983, the book has been translated by Alireza Khazai. What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid-seventies? Have they on balance ...