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  • Guevara

    Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism

    24 September 2011, by Michael Löwy

    IN AN ARTICLE published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”

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  • France

    The crisis of French Marxism

    18 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd

    This article was first published in English in "International Marxist Review" No 14, Winter 1992.

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  • On the state

    1980 - Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State

    12 July 2011, by Ernest Mandel

    “Historical materialism elevates the principle of the dialectical relationship between the particular and the general, which reveals the essence of phenomena, to the theoretical foundation of the dialectical understanding of history.”- Leo Kofler, Geschichte und Dialektik

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  • Daniel Bensaïd

    Strategy and Party

    5 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd

    This is based on the transcription of a talk Daniel Bensaïd gave at the Fourth International youth camp in Barbaste, France in July 2007. The subheadings have been added.

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