Marxist theory
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On September 17, 2009, John Bellamy Foster appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss the financial
The free-market fallacies of Ayn Rand
By Phil Hearse
New books reveal Friedrich Engels’ revolutionary life
Engels: A Revolutionary Life, by John Green, Artery
Sustainability: utopian and scientific
By Mark Burton
Read an exclusive excerpt from Foster's The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet at http://links.org.au/node/1066.
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Class struggle and ecology: An ecosocialist approach
By Socialist Resistance (Britain)
Marta Harnecker: Popular power in Latin America -- Inventing in order to not make errors
Marta Harnecker: Ideas for the struggle #12 -- Don’t confuse desires with reality
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By Marta Harnecker, translated by Federico Fuentes for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
1. Unfortunately, there tends to be a lot of subjectivism in our analysis of the political situation. What tends to occur is that leaders, driven by their revolutionary passion, tend to confuse desires with reality. An objective evaluation of the situation is not carried out, the enemy tends to be underestimated and, on the other hand, one’s own potential is overestimated
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By Marta Harnecker, translated by Federico Fuentes for Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
1. I have previously argued the case for the need to create a large social bloc against neoliberalism that can unite all those affected by the system. To achieve this, it is fundamental that we create spaces that allow for the convergence of specific anti-neoliberal struggles where, safeguarding the specific characteristics of each political or social actor, common tasks can be taken up that aid in strengthening the struggle.