Marxism Explained

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• 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 attacks Lenin for allowing Ukraine to be created

  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 for dummies – it’s not so difficult!

  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

• The woman who killed Trotsky (yes, really!)

  By Tony McMahon on December 28, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Ramon Mercader assassinated the Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky but the key role of Ramon’s mother Caridad is often overlooked

• Are Brexit and Marxism compatible?

  By Tony McMahon on December 23, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Brexit and Marxism may seem to be incompatible but back in the 1970s, most socialists opposed European unity on a capitalist basis

• Eric Hobsbawm – historian and Marxist pessimist

  By Tony McMahon on December 21, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards

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