What is ‘dependency theory’? Dependency theory reveals the ‘hidden skeleton’ underpinning capitalism today, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 15th Jan 2024 Full Marx Why is Lenin still so important today? Ahead of the forthcoming centenary of Lenin’s death, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at his major works and their significance
Monday 27th Nov 2023 Full Marx How can we reclaim ‘our land?’ If anything, the demand to reform land ownership was stronger in the past. It is no less pressing today and it needs to go far beyond the ‘right to roam,’ explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 13th Nov 2023 Full Marx Is this land really ‘our land?’ A governing elite of land-owning, industrial, and increasingly finance capitalists owns what we might consider 'our' land — and our skies, seas and rivers are next, writes the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 02nd Oct 2023 Full Marx What is fraud? Financial deceit has long been a feature of British capitalism, even if this isn’t always obvious, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 04th Sep 2023 Full Marx What are the ‘organic composition of capital’ and the ‘tendency for the rate of profit to fall?’ A whole host of damaging measures, from cuts to casualisation, outsourcing and raising the retirement age, are deployed for one reason: to fight the inevitable decline of profits, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 28th Aug 2023 FULL MARX What is nationalism? Is it a force for progress or reaction? Nationalism needs to be analysed in terms of its specific content and context in order to understand its nature, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Monday 14th Aug 2023 Full Marx What are nations, nationality and nationalism? It may seem that Marxism’s promotion of internationalism and class coming before country means it opposes ‘the nation state’ — but the truth is actually one of pragmatic acceptance, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Tuesday 18th Jul 2023 What is ‘useful’ knowledge? In their 100th Full Marx column, the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY looks at how socialists have grappled with the direction and framing of working-class self-education over the last 200 years
Monday 26th Jun 2023 Full Marx What is the purpose of life? Humans are uniquely concerned with a ‘reason to live,’ so traditionally turned to religion. The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY investigates whether science, and the science of Marxism, have offered new answers
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