Marx
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What’s New at Reading from the Left?
Reading from the Left is a non-commercial project to promote socialist pamphlets and books. It provides free chapters from Marxist books, and full texts of Marxist pamphlets, from a variety of publishers. Continue reading
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Book Review: In praise of Engels By Michael Fitzpatrick
Hunt provides a comprehensive account of Engels’ life and work. He gives him full credit for his important contribution to the emergence of Marxism, from his collaboration with Marx in The Communist Manifesto of 1848 to his contributions to Capital (including the laborious tasks of editing and publishing Volumes 2 and 3 after Marx’s death)… Continue reading
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Two New Pamphlets on Farming and Darwin
Around the world, farm income is plummeting, pushing farmers off the land and into destitution. Militant farmers and farmworkers are fighting back. Why Karl Marx described Darwin’s Origin of Species as “the book which contains the basis in natural history for our view.” Continue reading
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Can a revolt of ‘consumers’ spark a revolution… By William Bowles
The power of big, transnational capital has transformed not only the economic landscape but also the nature of the way we live — from the food we eat (and where we buy it) to the fundamental fabric of our social spaces, and judging by the level of dissatisfaction with contemporary capitalist society, great swathes of… Continue reading
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Book Review: Can’t see the wood for the trees? by William Bowles
Within the pages of this book lie the reasons that explain why men and women now inhabit different worlds, for the reasons are not biologically determined but most definitely ideological in origin but because their roots are buried in the hidden history of the rise of capitalism some five hundred years ago, the reality of… Continue reading
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The new imperialism or picking up where they left off? By William Bowles
9 June 2004 My previous essay (‘Queen Victoria in Drag‘) prompted some further thoughts on our present predicament and foremost was the reality that the 20th century consisted almost entirely of a war between two ideologies – capitalism and socialism. And although the examples, the Soviet Union, China and so forth were not exactly what Continue reading
The New Dark Age 