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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Marxist Theory
1990 - Communism
31 December 2003, byread article...Ernest Mandel outlines the orthodox Marxist view of the stages of transition after the fall of capitalism.
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Basic Theories of Karl Marx
Historical Materialism
30 December 2003, byread article...Outside his specific economic theories, Marx’s main contribution to the social sciences has been his theory of historical materialism. Its starting point is anthropological. Human beings cannot survive without social organisation.
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The Basic Theories of Karl Marx
Marx’s Economic Theory - General approach and influence
30 December 2003, byread article...A general appraisal of Marx’s method of economic analysis is called for prior to an outline of his main economic theories (theses and hypotheses). Marx is distinct from most important economists of the 19th and 20th centuries in that he does not consider himself at all an ’economist’ pure and simple.
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The Basic Theories of Karl Marx
Marx’s Labour Theory of Value
30 December 2003, byread article...As an economist, Marx is generally situated in the continuity of the great classical school of Adam Smith and Ricardo. He obviously owes a lot to Ricardo, and conducts a running dialogue with that master in most of his mature economic writings.
