Communism means a classless society evolved on the ruins of capitalism (which is based on capitalist exploitation of wage labour). This is to be achieved by intensification of class struggle
The real negation of capitalism is communism, which abolishes all forms of exploitation of man by man. But this cannot be achieved by one stroke. Socialism came to be conceptualised
Historically, democratic revolution is the bridge leading from the feudal to the bourgeois order. The English and the French revolutions (mid 17th and late 18th centuries respectively) were classic examples,
Communist Party is the revolutionary party of the proletariat. It unites and mobilises the working class and all exploited oppressed sections of society in the struggle for their immediate interests
Class is determined by the objective position a social group occupies in the vast network of production and distribution, by its relation to the means of production (i.e., whether it
All the developed industrialised countries such as Belgium, Japan, Germany, Australia and so on are imperialist in terms of the economic essence or stage of development (decaying, parasitic, monopoly capitalism
What is the relation between imperialism and globalisation?
Globalisation is a euphemism for the global offensive — economic, political and, as it recently turned out, military offensive — of imperialism led
In many ways, imperialism has continued to display the major features noted in Imperialism, and all the more glaringly so. Today’s transnational corporations (TNCs) far outshine Lenin’s “trusts and cartels”.
We propose to present the vast subject in four sub-topics
Imperialism as Lenin Saw it
To begin with the basics, let us see how Lenin defined imperialism.
“If it were necessary to give
The NGOs or “non-governmental organizations” (rechristened by some as CSOs or civil society organisations) counterpose civil society against the state and describe themselves as champions and vanguards of the former,
Nowadays we often hear that in this era of globalisation the nation-state has lost much of its traditional role and relevance. This assertion rests primarily on three observations : (a)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, a contemporary of Karl Marx and the original anarchist in the socialist movement, held that the power of capital and the power of the state were synonymous, so
The state refers to the sum total of all the legislative, judicial and executive organs: the parliament and state legislatures, the courts and prisons, the civil administration including the police,
Reformism originated with the Fabian Society in England (founded in 1884 with leading intellectuals like Sydney and Beatrice Webb, Ramsay MacDonald and Bernard Shaw) and then spread to the rest
In his 1859 Preface to An Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy, Marx gives a brilliantly concise formulation of the dialectical and materialist conception of history:
“In the social production
In this article written on the occasion of the 30th death anniversary (1913) of Karl Marx, Lenin initiates us into the essential totality of Marxism. The basic point he makes
Marxism is the dynamic science constantly uncovering the general laws of motion of human society, the evergreen philosophy of praxis and revolutionary transformation. In a word, it is our guide
PUBLISHER’S NOTE TO SECOND EDITION
This is the second enlarged edition of the pamphlet first published in October 2003. It seeks to address the question faced by all who wish to