Marxist Voice

Join us for part two of our podcast series 'Women's liberation: The Marxist position' where we are republishing a talk by Laurie on the origins of women's oppression.

An historical materialist understanding of oppression is crucial. Contrary to the beliefs of those who think that the oppression of women is somehow biological or innate, Marxists understand that women's oppression has not existed forever. Rather, it arose with the rise of class society, and it can be done away with through revolutionary struggle.

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📚 Pick up a copy of Engels' classic text The Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State from Wellred Books: https://wellredbooks.net/the-origin-of-the-family.html

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It has now been two weeks since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Since then, the hypocritical Western imperialists and their lackeys in the media have been pouring forth endless denunciations of Russia's actions.

In this episode of Marxist Voice, we are joined by Jorge Martin (writer and activist for the International Marxist Tendency) to set the record straight on why this conflict is happening, who is responsible for this mess, and how Marxists and socialists should respond to this situation.

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To mark International Working Women's Day, we are publishing a three-part series on Marxism and the fight for women's liberation.

This week, we are joined by Fiona Lali, who will discuss the different ways that women are oppressed and exploited in capitalist society, and why only a Marxist, class-based approach can guide the struggle for women's liberation - not the ideas of bourgeois feminism.

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With the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the question of whether another world war will break out is on people's lips. In this republished talk from 2017, Ben Gliniecki answers this question, and draws out the Marxist approach to wars and imperialism.

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While anarchism understands power in an idealist, abstract way, Marxism looks for a material understanding of where it comes from and how it is maintained, based on a concrete study of history.

In this talk from Revolution Festival 2021, Andrea Patanè discusses the differences between anarchism and Marxism, and how we can fight against our common enemy: capitalism and the bourgeois state.

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📚 Get yourself a copy of our book 'Marxism and Anarchism', an anthology of essays and excerpts discussing various aspects of the topic, from Wellred Books: https://wellredbooks.net/marxism-and-anarchism.html

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In the latest episode of Marxist Voice, Yola Kipcak combats the ideas of postmodernism, which reject the notion of objective truth or lawfulness in the world. These ideas are at odds with Marxism, which has a rational, materialist approach.

🔗 Want to learn more? Check out the recent article 'Marxism vs Postmodernism', which was published in the In Defence of Marxism theoretical magazine: https://www.socialist.net/marxism-versus-postmodernism.htm

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📚 Check out Lenin's classical philosophical text Materialism and Empirio-criticism, which defends Marxist materialism from subjective idealist attacks like those of the postmodernists today: https://wellredbooks.net/materialism-and-empirio-criticism.html

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the greatest minds that humanity has ever known. His development of the dialectic, placed on a materialist basis by Marx, provides key insights into the logic of all change, development and transformation in nature, society and the human mind.

Want to learn more about the history of philosophy, including how Marx developed Hegel's dialectical approach to reality? Get yourself a copy of Alan Woods' most recent book 'The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective': https://wellredbooks.net/history-of-philosophy-marxist-perspective.html

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The slew of scandals emanating from Buckingham Palace - most recently the sexual abuse allegations levelled against Prince Andrew - are eating away at the public's opinion of the Monarchy.

In this talk, Andy Southwark discusses the real role of the Monarchy as an important reserve power of the ruling class, maintained as a counter-revolutionary weapon to be deployed in the fight against socialism.

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One of capitalism's oldest myths is that of the efficiency of the so-called 'free-market' and its superiority to a socialist planned economy. Defending economic planning, this talk responds to the libertarian ideas of the Austrian School of economics, whose 'theories' amount to vitriolic support of the unrestricted rule of capital at the expense of the needs of society.

Want to learn more? Adam's article on Marxism vs libertarianism is available in the latest issue of In Defence of Marxism, the theoretical journal of the International Marxist Tendency. Get your copy: https://www.socialist.net/subscribe

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In this talk, Rob Sewell discusses the life and ideas of Lenin, and how we can follow in his footsteps.

Lenin's understanding of the Marxist method allowed him to navigate the twists and turns on the road to revolution. Anyone seriously committed to fighting for socialism must learn from his life and ideas.

Read more about Lenin's formative years in the article 'The Young Lenin' in the latest issue of In Defence of Marxism, available from https://www.socialist.net/subscribe

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