Full Marx Are Marxists iconoclasts? Statues and other icons can enforce power and domination but they can also help us challenge that power, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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
Monday 19th Sep 2022 FULL MARX What is primitive accumulation? Finance capitalism didn’t fall from the sky fully formed: before you can invest, you must steal and before you can employ, you must enslave, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY. But was it just a stage, or does it exist today too?
Monday 08th Aug 2022 Full Marx What do we mean by ‘hegemony’? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY outlines why the ideas of the ruling class are always the ruling ideas – and how to respond
Sunday 24th Jul 2022 Full Marx What is 'natural capital' — and is nature a commodity? Normally, you would need to combine a forest with labour to produce capital — e.g. furniture to be sold. Today however, nature can be traded to ‘offset’ damage done elsewhere, locking us into a vicious cycle, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 11th Jul 2022 What is ‘intersectionality?’ Although originally pitched against inequality, intersectionality theory eventually lays the groundwork for 'diversity' to become the watchword of corporate ethics, not a way of uniting oppressed identities against capitalism explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 16th May 2022 Full Marx How should we respond to people who equate communism and fascism? There is a renewed effort to lump those that started the Holocaust in with those that ended it based on simplistic ideas of 'totalitarianism' — this ignores fundamental differences in intent and outcome, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 15th Feb 2021 Full Marx: Considering the history and modern usage of ‘identity politics’ Allied to class, identity is a powerful force – but liberalism is a killer, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 01st Feb 2021 Is ‘imperialism’ (just) history? Imperialism is a particular feature of capitalism that is still with us today – but how has it developed over time, asks the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 30th Nov 2020 Does automation spell the end of capitalism? Capitalism will not 'automatically' morph into some 'postcapitalist' or socialist system due to technology replacing the human workforce. As the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains, ending capitalism will require a conscious, collective action on the part of 'the many' — the working class
Monday 23rd Nov 2020 FULL MARX Can dialectics explain the world? Dialectical materialism is best seen as a valuable heuristic — a practical approach to problem solving, analysis and investigation, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY