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Basic Marxism
A short study guide to Marxism
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Basic marxism
This short study guide to Marxism is based on a guide published by the International Marxist Group in 1977 and has been reissued in response to the growing demand for Marxist educational material.
Basic marxism
From the earliest days of modern industry the working class has been compelled to seek unity on an international level or suffer defeat in its elementary struggles with the capitalist class.
Basic marxism
Classes emerge at a distinct point in the evolution of human society on a particular economic foundation.
Basic marxism
The state is not an eternal human institution but arises at a particular stage in human development.
Basic marxism
The institution of the family arises in the era of private property and functions as a prop of class society.
Basic marxism
Capital first appears in the sphere of circulation of commodities then enters into production buying up labour power as a commodity.
Basic marxism
Reformism is based or the experiences of the working class as well as on the interests of privileged layers of the workers.
Basic marxism
It is only periodically that the political crisis in one or in a number of countries affords the working class the opportunity to take power.
Basic marxism
Stalinism as a political trend in the international workers movement arises as an expression of the interests of a privileged layer in the first workers state.
Basic marxism
The uneven and combined development of capitalism in the imperialist phase makes for the possibility and the necessity for the working class to come to power even in the economically under-developed countries.
Basic marxism
On a world scale the material basis exists for an advance to socialism. Periodically the capitalist political system enters a crisis giving the working class an opportunity to overthrow it.
Basic marxism
While revolutionaries remain a minority within the working class they can only reach the masses by means of alliances with other organizations.
Basic marxism
Decisive steps towards a classless society are possible only on the basis of action by several advanced countries.
Basic marxism
The material world exists independently of the thought processes which seek to comprehend it.
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