A university of Marxism

John Riddell’s Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International (Haymarket 2012) is a tremendous work of scholarship in the tradition of David Riazanov. The book is a remarkable paperback of 1,300 pages, but it repays reading: it is a manual for revolutionary socialist strategy, in the words of many of its finest representatives.

These five blogs explain why:

Part 1: Assessment of global class forces

Part 2: Transitional demands and the united front

Part 3: The workers’ government slogan

Part 4: Hegemony and struggles against oppression

Part 5: Anti-imperialism