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• Postmodernism – a disaster for Marxism

  By Tony McMahon on January 11, 2025 • ( 1 )

  

  Postmodernism has been hailed as radical and progressive since it emerged from the year of revolts and strikes that was 1968. Yet the postmodernist thinkers of that era were not enthusiastic revolutionaries. Quite the contrary. A mix of ex-Marxists and… Read More ›

• Can Marxism and religion be reconciled?

  By Tony McMahon on December 28, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  There is a lot of confusion and nonsense about the relationship between Marxism and religion. In recent years, some have tried to suggest that Karl Marx saw a positive role for religion in a revolutionary movement. He did not. But… Read More ›

• Should we call Donald Trump a fascist – or not?

  By Tony McMahon on November 17, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  During the 2024 American president election, Democrats and others on the left decried the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, as a fascist. However, some socialist theorists and commentators have criticised the loose use of this word – warning that when the… Read More ›

• The British Lumpenproletariat in revolt

  By Tony McMahon on August 3, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  Increasingly in the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe, we have seen violent protests by predominantly white men from lower income backgrounds adopting racist and xenophobic views and manipulated by social media bots, often originating in the United States and… Read More ›

• Does the Left understand Hamas?

  By Tony McMahon on November 1, 2023 • ( 1 )

  

  Hamas is not a progressive organisation and yet some on the Left support it – why?

• Hamas is not a socialist party – the Left’s big mistake

  By Tony McMahon on October 31, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  The conflict between Israel and Gaza triggered by the Hamas massacre and mass hostage taking within Israel on October 7, 2023 has sparked off mass demonstrations but while this may seem to offer an opportunity to the Left – it’s… Read More ›

• The Funeral of Karl Marx at Highgate cemetery in 1883 – the report

  By Tony McMahon on September 30, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  On March 14, 1883, Karl Marx died in London. So how did mainstream, capitalist newspapers report the death of the father of communism? Well, very differently is the answer. Trying to make sense of his legacy, they dragged in his… Read More ›

• How the Portuguese fascism of Salazar is influencing American conservatives

  By Tony McMahon on March 20, 2022 • ( 1 )

  

  Some American conservatives seem to be toying with the ‘soft’ fascism of Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar

• Bashar Assad – why did some on the Left support him?

  By Tony McMahon on March 20, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Bashar Assad clung to power in Syria after the Arab Spring with help from Russia and from western useful idiots on social media

• Trans Marxism and Social Reproduction Theory

  By Tony McMahon on March 17, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Trans Marxism has built on Social Reproduction Theory arguing it explains transgender oppression under capitalism

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