International Viewpoint - online socialist magazine
International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow.
Recently posted Features
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The persistence of revolution
The Mole and the Locomotive
8 September 2006, byread article...Daniel Bensaid reflects on the persistance of resistance and revolution at times when the power of capitalism seems unstoppable and overwhelming.
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Marxism and classical sociology
Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
31 August 2006, byread article...Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] replace personal relations of dependence, and where the accumulation of capital becomes an end in itself and, by and large, irrational.
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Marxism
On a Recent Book by John Holloway
16 June 2006, byread article...John Holloway’s book, Change the World Without Taking Power (London, Pluto Press, 2002) has provoked wide-ranging debate on the left. In its new pamphlet the International Institute for Study and Research has collated a number of contributions to the debate, starting with a critique of Holloway’s book by Daniel Bensaïd.
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France
"The question of a link between workers and students is immediate"
27 March 2006, byread article...Daniel Bensaid, in this interview with Socialist Worker, reflects on the current battle of the French students and its comparisons with student movements of the past.
