Marxism claims to offer a way forward to transgender people so what is different from Queer Theory and identity politics?
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Putin blames Lenin for creating Ukraine
Putin has attacked Lenin for creating the Ukraine while idolising Stalin and greater Russian nationalism
How does Marxism explain human evolution?
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
How and why the 1917 Russian revolution degenerated into the totalitarian and bureaucratic nightmare of Stalinism
Marxism and Islamism – do they mix?
Are Islamism and Marxism reconcilable or are they aiming for very different and contradictory outcomes? Tony McMahon investigates
Are Brexit and Marxism compatible?
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
Eric Hobsbawm became more pessimistic about the possibility of the working class transforming society from 1978 onwards
Trotsky and the horror of the Holocaust
Leon Trotsky could not have anticipated the horror of the Holocaust as he corresponded with Jewish socialists before WWII
Karl Marx – the Euro philosopher!
The ideas of Karl Marx were a mix of German philosophy, English economics and French politics so very Euro in its ideological composition
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