I’m not an academic, so my understanding of the details of Marxist theory are shaky. Still, I wonder if the concepts of base and superstructure might be useful in making the case for the priority I ...

“One basis for life and another basis for science is an a-priori lie” — Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1845. Base-superstructure theory is Marx’s most general theory, but is long ...

A reinterpretation of the Marxist worldview within the context of Marx’s life and the sociopolitical dynamics of his age Prometheus, a Greek god, known for ingenuity and resistance, was persecuted by ...

This week Mehring Books is featuring Georgi V. Plekhanov’s last major work, Fundamental Problems of Marxism, an invaluable explanation of the Marxist method. Plekhanov was the founder of the Russian ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite East European countries and the establishment of state capitalism in China and Vietnam in the name of socialism, it has been widely assumed that ...