For most people, the word Philosophy will immediately bring to mind something like the image of a university seminar room full of intellectual types deeply engaged in high level discussion. It appears as something obscure, reserved for only the most knowledgeable people, and – more importantly – it appears as Read more…
Dialectical materialism is our “sharpest weapon”, as Engels explained, against the misery of class society.” Read our latest #TheoryThursdays article on Marx’s revolution in philosophy here!
Trotsky’s ‘ABC of Materialist Dialectics’ is a brilliant short explanation of Marxist philosophy. It was written as part of a defence of Marxism against a middle-class revisionist tendency in the American Trotskyist movement in the late 1930s, which attempted to challenge its basic principles. As opposed to pragmatism and Read more…
Readers of US-based magazine the New Yorker may have read a recent and sensationally-titled article, “The Case for Not Being Born”, by Joshua Rothman (27/11/2017). The article itself is a good introduction to a relatively recent school in bourgeois philosophy known as “anti-natalism”. The basic thrust of anti-natalism is that Read more…
What is a philosophy? At each stage in human history, men and women have worked out some sort of picture of the world and their place in it. They develop a Philosophy. The pieces they use to make up this picture have been obtained by observing nature and through generalising Read more…