Many who belive themselves to be intellectual follower of Marx belive that according to Marx the essence of capitalism is the conflict of capitals and workers and the latter is the inevitable revolutionary class. These analyts do not appreciate thet the proletariate is a historical philosophical and not sociological category of Marx.
Category Archives: Former issues
The proletariat as subject and representation
The fourth chapter of the book The society of the spectacle first published in 1967. Debord explains the relationship between the proletariat and history and the ideology of class struggle from the utopian socialists and Marx to Trotsky and Lenin. he belives that the workers' councils are the only adequate instruments of the particular struggle of the working class.
Demanding te impossible
An outline about the most significant though not well-known current of the 1968 movements the so-called situationists, about their history, organisations and ideology. íthey attempted to re-unite ímarxism with anarchism and devlop an international power of workers' councils.
New Left Review
An introduction of the history of the London based periodical, based on the information to be found on its website.
Renewals – Debate on the New Left
In January 2000, Perry Anderson editor of New Left Review outlined the philosophy of the journal for the forthcoming period. Boris kagarlitsky from Moscow in his counter-argument claimed that this is the death of the new left.