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 Hobbes and John Locke challenged religious explanations of the world and helped lay the foundations for modern science and, ultimately, Marxism. At the same time, she explains why Marxism goes beyond the limitations of mechanical materialism.
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.
From environmentally-damaging data centres, to the threat of unemployment, to alienating AI slop – widespread anger is building towards the tech bosses accelerating us towards a dystopian future. What is the revolutionary way forward?
Art is a necessity of life which is kept shackled by the profit motive. Art is something which workers yearn for. But what really is art? And can it change the world? What is the relationship between art and revolution, and revolutionaries? In this talk from the RCP summer camp, Nelson Wan discusses all these questions.