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The vast majority of historical anarchist and Marxist theory was spread among workers by short articles in papers and pamphlets, rather than big books. Social movements always tried to make

Hot take: Lenin's position in state and rev that the existing state should be smashed in favour of the armed working class and workers councils is just him unknowingly repeating

Sex work is work and like all workers they should not be subject to oppression by the state. The abolition of capitalism in favour of communism would abolish sex work,

Hi Boots. I'm a historian of anarchism. Here are some points I hope will help you better understand anarchism, even if you disagree with it. 1. anarchists have always advocated

Class reductionism is fundamentally un-Marxist. Here's why: Marx's dialectical method holds that one aspect of society can only be understood in terms of its relations with other aspects of society

Some people have responded to this thread by saying that if this is true then anarchists advocate a dictatorship of the proletariat in Marx's technical sense of the self-rule of

How to write a Marxist academic critique of anarchism:1. misrepresent anarchist authors through selective quotes. 2. quote what historic Marxists wrote about anarchism and treat it as automatically true or

In the 19th and early 20th century social democracy = Marxism. The theory of German social democracy includes Marx and Engels. Lenin was a social democrat who belonged to the

Historic texts cannot be understood independently of their context. Malatesta's anarchist programme of 1899 doesn't advocate distribution according to need. Why? Because since the late 1870s there had an intense

Over five years the UK left has gone from entering labour to push it to the left via momentum to now trying to push momentum to the left by making