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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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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Marxist Theory
The Proletariat in Power
30 December 2003, byread article...When we say that the state remains in existence up to and including the transitional society between capitalism and socialism, the question arises whether the working class still needs a state when it takes power.
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Marxist Theory
The Bourgeois State: the Face of Everyday Reality
30 December 2003, byread article...Through the struggle waged by the labour movement certain institutions of the bourgeois state become both more subtle and more complex.
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Marxist Theory
Origin and Development of the State in the History of Societies
30 December 2003, byread article...The state did not always exist. Certain sociologists and other representatives of academic political science are in error when they speak of the state in primitive societies. What they are really doing is identifying the state with the community. In so doing, they strip the state of its special characteristic.
