History & Theory

This section deals with the major aspects of Marxist theory: dialectical materialism, historical materialism, Marxist economics, the class nature of the USSR, the colonial revolution, and more.

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The relevance of the Transitional Programme today – Introduction to the Indonesian edition –Part Two

Written by Alan Woods Wednesday, 23 May 2012
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Nowhere is the Transitional Programme more relevant than in Indonesia – a country that occupies a very important place in the perspectives for world revolution. Its working class has a rich revolutionary tradition, which still survives though it was drowned in blood in 1965.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci: artist, thinker and revolutionary – Part Three

Written by Alan Woods Monday, 21 May 2012
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Leonardo Da Vinci: artist, thinker and revolutionary – Part ThreeThe artist’s task is not merely to mirror reality in an unthinking way but to impart a special meaning and feeling to what is being depicted: “The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason,” wrote Leonardo, “is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.” [part 1]

 

The relevance of the Transitional Programme today – Introduction to the Indonesian edition –Part One

Written by Alan Woods Tuesday, 15 May 2012
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trotsky 1918 desk thTwenty years ago the powerful repressive Stalinist police states fell one after another under the pressure of mass upsurges. The collapse of Stalinism was a dramatic event and a turning point in world history. But in retrospect it will be seen as only the prelude to something even more dramatic: the death agony of world capitalism.

 

Leonardo Da Vinci: artist, thinker and revolutionary – Part Two

Written by Alan Woods Thursday, 10 May 2012
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leonardo-da-vinci-2-thThe true genius of Leonardo has only really begun to be understood in our own times. Yet surprisingly little is known about his life and person. But in the beginning he was severely disadvantaged.The known facts about his life are simply stated. Born in 1452 in the little Tuscan town of Vinci in the hills above the Arno, Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a lawyer. He never knew who his mother was, though she nursed him as a baby. [part 1]

 

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