Marxism Explained

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• Queer Theory and Marxism

  By Tony McMahon on March 16, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Queer Theory has exercised a huge influence on the discourse around sexuality but does it have anything in common with Marxism?

• The problem of identity politics

  By Tony McMahon on March 15, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Identity politics has a problem with intersectionality and encourages accusations of erasure by different groups

• Feminism, identity politics and trans activism

  By Tony McMahon on March 13, 2022 • ( 2 )

  

  Identity politics led to the attack on transgender rights by Second Wave feminists but how did this happen?

• Karl Marx meets Transgender Rights

  By Tony McMahon on March 13, 2022 • ( 5 )

  

  Marxism claims to offer a way forward to transgender people so what is different from Queer Theory and identity politics?

• Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine

  By Tony McMahon on February 24, 2022 • ( 3 )

  

  Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism

• How does Marxism explain human evolution?

  By Tony McMahon on January 3, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Marxism has its own account for how humans evolved so how does it match up to Darwin’s theory of evolution and are they compatible?

• Stalinism – how the USSR became a bureaucratic nightmare

  By Tony McMahon on February 15, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism

• Dialectical materialism – getting to grips with it!

  By Tony McMahon on February 15, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Dialectical materialism is an element of Marxist theory that scares many people but it’s really not that difficult to understand

• Communism and Islam – the Bolsheviks attempt an alliance

  By Tony McMahon on February 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Communism and Islam moved closer together in the former Russian empire in the period after 1917 but the alliance didn’t last

• Marxism and Islamism – do they mix?

  By Tony McMahon on December 29, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Are Islamism and Marxism reconcilable or are they aiming for very different and contradictory outcomes? Tony McMahon investigates

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