Lenin

Lev Yurkevych

Ukraine between empire and revolution: Lev Yurkevych’s anti-colonial Marxism

Lev Yurkevych ‘Ukraine and the War’ is the earliest concise Marxist analysis of the Ukrainian question to be presented to international socialists.
Marcos Duterte

On compromises with the ruling class and ‘lesser evil’ politics

Sonny Melencio — A socialist party will inevitably make compromises when dealing with reformist forces. The challenge is maintaining independent political struggle and freedom to criticise bourgeois and liberal allies.
Lenin and imperialism

Lenin’s theory of imperialism, the modern capitalist world system and revolutionary communist struggle today: An interview with Rasti Delizo (Part I)

Rasti Delizo discusses the ongoing relevancy of Lenin’s theory of imperialism while outlining subsequent developments that need to be factored in.
Another world is possible sticker

Why another world is possible: Comments at a socialist rally in Berlin

Paul Le Blanc addresses the question: “What makes socialists believe that another world is possible?”
Lenin museum statute

A Lenin for the 21st century

Paul Le Blanc on the indissoluble tie between reform and revolution.
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels and the theory of the labour aristocracy

Jonathan Strauss considers the scope and significance of the theory of the labour aristocracy and its application by Engels to understanding the politics of the English working class.
Daniel Bensaid

On revolutionary strategy: From the early Comintern to Daniel Bensaïd

In this chapter from his forthcoming book, John Riddell offers a lucid presentation of the Comintern’s strategic orientation and a serious-minded engagement with Daniel Bensaïd thinking on such questions.
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In defence of Lenin’s writings on the national question: A response to Hanna Perekhoda

Dmitry Pozhidaev — Lenin’s vision of the national question was far from assimilationist; it was a dialectical approach that recognised proletarian internationalism could only be built on respect for national and cultural differences.
capital flows

Surplus profits, capital exports and imperialism: An interrogation of commonly held beliefs and assumptions

James Doughney interrogates some commonly held beliefs and assumptions about monopoly capital, surplus profits and the export of capital — and explains why they are not coherent.
Ukrainian nationalism

Re-examining Lenin’s writings on the national question: An early Marxist critique from the imperial periphery

Hanna Perekhoda revisits Lenin’s pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his Ukrainian contemporary, Lev Yurkevych.
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Imperialism: ‘Antagonistic cooperation’ or antagonistic contradictions? A reply to Promise Li

Michael Pröbsting — Imperialism today is not a system characterised by “antagonistic cooperation” but rather by antagonistic contradictions.
Lenin imperialism export capitals

The place of capital exports in Lenin’s conception of imperialism — A response to John Bellamy Foster

James Doughney — It is hard to avoid thinking that any attempt to airbrush Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ is a form of avoidance behaviour in the face of awkward but stubborn facts.

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