Full Marx What’s the future with AI? The increased efficiency of any aspect of capitalism will not automatically lead to its collapse and transformation — avoiding the dangers and realising the potential of AI will involve struggle, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 05th Jun 2023 Full Marx What is ‘ultra-leftism’ today? Ultra-leftism is not a single set of ideas but a syndrome that always places political action or demands way ahead of what is achievable – often intentionally, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 22nd May 2023 Full Marx What’s the difference between ‘absolute’ and ‘relative’ surplus value? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out
Monday 24th Apr 2023 Full Marx Can co-operatives play a role in a transition to socialism? You remove the boss and the owners, leaving workers equal in management and production: job done? Not quite, but co-ops should not be casually dismissed either, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Sunday 19th Feb 2023 Is capitalism cyclical? As long as we permit capitalism to exist, there will be cycles of development and decay, of gains and losses for capitalists, and of successes and failures for the working class, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 06th Feb 2023 Full Marx Does ‘human nature’ exist and if so what is it? Human nature is not fixed; it has changed throughout history and will continue to do so, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 23rd Jan 2023 Full Marx What is a 'labour aristocracy' — did one exist in the past and does it exist today? Did the entire British working class constitute a labour aristocracy during the colonial era? Do highly skilled tech workers now? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates a controversial but useful area of communist discourse
Monday 09th Jan 2023 Full Marx What are the ‘forces,’ ‘relations’ and ‘modes’ of production? What is made, how it’s made, who it’s made by and who for define not just those involved in the process but entire eras of human civilisation, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Tuesday 27th Dec 2022 Is China socialist? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY examines the economic development of the People’s Republic of China
Sunday 16th Oct 2022 Full Marx How has social democracy failed us? Social democracy is not simply the gradualist, reformist wing of our movement — a peaceful approach to establishing socialism — but a fundamentally opposing ideology of capitalism and war, explain's the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 03rd Oct 2022 Full Marx Are we facing limits to economic growth? Capitalism depends on continued expansion — so does that mean that after a certain point, we will run out of resources and markets and face calamity? Only if we blindly follow the 'logic' of the market, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY