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Workers' Liberty 3/16, entitled "Marx's telescope", looks at the light that a little-known but major work of Marx, the Grundrisse, can bring to understanding 21st century capitalism. Download pdf or read online:
"Marx's telescope", part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | "The Grundrisse on exploitation"
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By Martin Thomas
In many ways capital has been global since the 16th century. Four developments are relatively new since the 1980s.
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A review of "The Retreat From Class: A New 'True Socialism'", by Ellen Meiksins Wood.
"No-one can seriously maintain that any other social movement has ever challenged the power of capital as has the working class... And for all its limitations and institutional conservatism, the labour movement has more consistently than any other social collectivity stood on the side of the various causes which the left regards as valuable and progressive".
But "the new reformists are now disillusioned with what they see as revolutionary socialism in China, Cambodia, and Vietnam. They opt instead for reformed capitalism".
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"The colour of the revolution in one area after another of India" - and of other ex-colonies - "is steel-grey... An industrial revolution". The problem in most Third World capitalisms is not external domination but capitalism itself...
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Mark Perryman, from the editorial board of the Communist Party magazine Marxism Today, and Alan Johnson from Socialist Organiser, debated at the Workers' Liberty summer school in July 1989 on whether the watchwords for politics should be "modernising", "fragmentation", and "compromise" - or class struggle.
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A debate from Workers' Liberty, 2000-2002
Click here to download whole debate as pdf.
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In the four years from July 1970, British capitalism “lost” more than five million working days to combined industrial action against a new Industrial Relations Act and government incomes policy.
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“Sit-down strikes,” wrote the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky not long after huge waves of factory occupations in France and the US (1930s), “go beyond the limits of ‘normal’ capitalist procedure. Independently of the demands of the strikers, the temporary seizure of factories deals a blow to the idol, capitalist property. Every sit-down strike poses in a practical manner the question of who is the boss in the factory: the capitalist or the workers?”
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