“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” —Martin Luther King Jr. “Stumbling is not falling.” —Malcolm X “In contrast to idealism, whose problem is how to explain ...

For Marx, materialism was about acknowledging the way the real world impacts on people's lives, and acknowledging their ability to come together to change society. THE WORD "idealism" is usually used ...

Mehring Books continues its Winter Recommended Reading Series, in which writers for the World Socialist Web Site are asked to share their thoughts about works of Marxist literature that have ...

Karl Marx is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated theorists of human history. Marx was above all a scientist. He used the term historical materialism to explain that it was the material ...

CAPITALISM IS like gravity: it envelops our world so completely that it's easy to forget about it entirely. The laws of both operate inexorably, and attempts to disregard them can result in serious ...

This is the text of a lecture delivered by David North, chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and of the Socialist Equality Party (US), at the University of ...

This is an important book. Its great merit lies in a clear presentation of Marx's position on nature in its relation to human beings as well as a convincing defense of Marx against his ecological ...

This text is an answer to the criticism Korsch received from "orthodox" "Marxists" on the publication of his Marxism and Philosophy - both of the Leninist variety and the "western" variety who ...

Originally published in 1983, the book has been translated by Alireza Khazai. What have been the major changes in the intellectual landscape of the left since the mid-seventies? Have they on balance ...