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There is a rich and authentic tendency of Latin American Marxism, in which José Carlos Mariátegui is probably the brightest star. His contribution during the 1920s has rightly earned him the epitaph of Latin America’s Gramsci.
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Latin America appears to have long been in the thrall of ‘barbaric’ Marxism: the stale Stalinism of the official Communist Parties, the populist Stalinism of the Castro current, the national reformism
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The Spanish Revolution and Civil War broke out 75 years ago.
"The stars are dead. The animals will not look.
We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and
History to the defeated
May say Alas but cannot help or pardon."
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This is the second part of JT Murphy’s 1917 pamphlet The Workers’ Committee. Murphy was a founder member of the Communist Party and a Sheffield metal worker.
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Leon Trotsky once said that the small revolutionary movement he led was like the apex of an inverted social pyramid, upon which the whole weight of capitalist society pressed down.
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J T (John Thomas) Murphy was a Sheffield metal-worker and, in 1920, became a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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What We Are And What We Must Become [SECTION 3]
VULGAR MATERIALISM AND PLATONIC PERSPECTIVES
By Rachel Lever, Phil Semp and Sean Matgamna
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“Without democracy there can be no socialism and without a socialist society, there can be no real and complete democracy.”
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A Hymn for the Godless
(After listening to a recording of poems by
Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Once, God and Kate Ni Houlihan* were one.
I know Truth, negating Truth, as drought,
