In this recent talk to the UCLU Marxist Society, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – explains the main concepts behind the ideas of Marxism, including dialectical materialism – the philosophy of Marxism – and Marx’s economic analysis, which helps to provide us with an understanding of the deep crisis of capitalism that we see today.
In this excerpt from the ‘New Course’ – which was the opening shot in the Left Opposition’s struggle against Stalinism – Trotsky takes up the question of the Leninist method of understanding the world. This advice retains its full relevance for communists today.
On this day 85 years ago, Leon Trotsky was brutally attacked by a Stalinist assassin. He died the following day. This short obituary summarises the breadth of Trotsky’s marvellous contributions to humanity: as a theoretician, as a journalist, and as a working-class fighter.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Joe Russell discusses Marx’s completion of the Labour Theory of Value.