Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – provides a Marxist analysis of the state, contrasting it against the reformist and anarchist analyses, examines the role of the state today at a time of capitalist crisis, and discusses how society and the state can be transformed in a revolutionary manner.
Once again, the crisis of the prison system is back in the headlines, following Burnham’s early prisoner release fiasco. With intense overcrowding, staff morale in crisis, and a probation service at breaking point, this situation is intractable under capitalism.
Marx and Engels didn’t develop their ideas in a vacuum. They built on centuries of philosophical development, including the revolutionary ideas of the English materialists. Georgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas HobbesGeorgina Ryan explores how thinkers like Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke challenged religious explanations of the world and helped lay the foundations for modern science and, ultimately, Marxism.
How did philosophy begin? And why are arguments from over 2,000 years ago still central to Marxism today? In this episode of Marxist Voice, Khaled Malachi traces the origins of materialism and idealism in Ancient Greece.