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Category: Historic materialism
What Lenin borrowed from Hilferding
Capitalist crisis, valorization, imperialism as theorized by Marx, Engels, Kautsky, and in particular Lenin – Hilferding Spanish Contents Hilferding and Lenin suffered from simplifications and distortions when they developed their notorious idea of financial capital. This article will confront this idea with Marx’s analysis of the development of the financial…
Read MoreControverses: Cahier Thématique n°3, a critical appraisal
The French journal Controverses published Thematic Notebook No. 3 critiquing the International Communist Current (ICC). While addressing some relevant points, it displays sectarian and dogmatic tendencies, undermining its value.
Read MoreWith Lenin and Trotsky: For or Against war ?
On “a second non-public conference of mainly Trotskyist and Leninist groups held recently in Italy” By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish, Italian, French Effects of the theses of Bolshevism: some in favor of bourgeois causes and others with open weaknesses…
Read MoreDavid Adam: Labor-Time Accounting and the Withering Away of the State. Contributions to the critique of common misconceptions
New on Red & Black Books Cover text In their critique of capitalism, Marx and Engels clearly formulated the fundamental principles of the alternative to capitalism: Some critics of capitalism do not like this alternative. They want to live in…
Read MoreMichel Roberts and his Leninist biases. How not to understand what imperialist capitalism is and to confuse about it
By Aníbal Spanish Michael Roberts edited an article on dependency theory, a theory that was very influential especially in Latin America. Michael Roberts comments on a book edited by Claudio Katz (La teoría de la dependencia después de cincuenta años.La…
Read MoreInternationalist Perspective and other followers of Minassian cum suis
Misguiding theses and their political consequences By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo Spanish Internationalist Perspective (IP) has published an internal debate on the IP leaflet on Gaza. More precisely than ‘internal debate’, we should say a sectarian debate. This debate started…
Read MoreAre we activists?
Spanish and other languages In a text on AFRD, Henry Cinnamon (HC) accuses us of activism for our criticism of the so-called Conference organized in Brussels in 2023 by Controversies and Internationalist Perspective. *) HC also wants to bar us…
Read MoreWhat struggle against the war? Current and historical differences with Leninism / Trotskyism
By Fredo Corvo and Aníbal Italian, Spanish Since the eruption of the war in Ukraine after the Russian invasion, and even more so after Hamas attacked Israel and Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip, it has been obvious, even to…
Read MoreTwo articles from Latin America: GENOCIDE IN GAZA and DE LA NAKBA
Undermining revolutionary internationalism and the struggle against imperialist capitalism, in war and peace Spanish Some tendencies question capitalism, and they are explained in different ways, tending to embrace discourses that mix communizing ideology, fragments of workerism and autonomism, anarchism and…
Read MoreIsrael – Palestine: Movements of imperialist capitalism. Fictitious and possible alternatives. Between the reality of the relation of forces and utopia
Spanish By Aníbal and Fredo Corvo On the occasion of Christmas, according to Western media, the pope called “to push for peace and to educate oneself about the arms industry, which foments killing,” for “committing to opposing all war, to cherishing human life,…
Read MoreLiving from misrepresentations. Communization ideology, period of transition from capitalism to socialism-communism
Aníbal In Federico Corriente’s text “Sur le passage de quelques ultra-gauchistes à travers une assez courte unité de temps : les origines de la théorie de la communisation”, we read: Critical truisms… Marx never called this “transitional society” socialism. Neither…
Read MoreA discussion on labour time accounting and co-operatism
Contents IDA, On our Strategy. A Response to Two Critiques Preliminary Remarks This is a rather quick and not fully theoretized reaction to critical comments by Aníbal [LINK] and Fredo Corvo [LINK] on several of our texts, which the two…
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