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.
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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.
The Stalinist School of conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theory as a part of everyday thought has deep historical roots in Russia. It appeared in a great variety from racism to Stalinism. The Stalinist style of making politics incorporated conspiracy as a method. The Stalinist tradition survives in the contemporary generations, particularly in the East European region. The ideologies of the new system continue it under an anti-Stalinist banner.
Picasso and the party line
Pablo Picasso was member and pride of the French Communist Party and major sponsor as well. Though as an artist he never accepted the so-called socialist realism of the Stalinist era. He remained committed to the principles and the organisation of the party until the end. The article was first published in The Guardian.