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
Sunday 07th Jun 2020 Full Marx What is ‘freedom’? What is Freedom? Ye can tell / That which Slavery is too well, For its very name has grown / To an echo of your own.
Monday 11th May 2020 What is ‘fictitious capital’? Today stocks, shares and other securities are completely divorced from actual products. What started as a promise to repay loans has become entirely spurious, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Sunday 19th Apr 2020 Just how does Facebook make its profit? Despite its tiny staff, the company has enormous wealth. This has as much to do with data-scraping its users as it has to do with another concept Marx detailed: religion
Sunday 29th Mar 2020 What is the ‘metabolic rift’? The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at how Marxists can explore the relation between capitalism, socialism and the environment
Monday 02nd Mar 2020 What is ‘financialisation’? Financial capital used to take a back seat to manufacturing. Today the rich get rich by selling credit and debt, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 17th Feb 2020 Is Marxism ‘ethical’? The answer to the question is an emphatic Yes, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Sunday 02nd Feb 2020 What is the role of the individual in history? Marxists maintain that while individuals cannot change the objective course of history at will, the individual can at times play a major role, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 30th Sep 2019 Is there a Marxist view of climate change? As the extent of the environmental crisis becomes clear, awareness also grows of the urgency of a sustainable, socialist alternative, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Tuesday 03rd Sep 2019 What’s the meaning of ‘revolution’? Beyond a riot, revolt or rebellion lies a revolution – a fundamental change in who runs society for what purpose, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY