Marxism – Page 2 – Marxism Explained

How some feminists allied to the extreme Right – and why?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Leon Trotsky could not have anticipated the horror of the Holocaust as he corresponded with Jewish socialists before WWII