I’ve just finished reading Notes from Underground, and I must confess to reading few books that have touched the core of my being in such a way. The Underground Man makes the following denunciation of all theories based on man as a rational animal, and demonstrates why, even if ‘Marxist science’ was true, and the … Read more
In Alan Woods’ recent article from last month on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, he has adopted a markedly more pessimistic tone about the Russian invasion: It is difficult to say how the war is progressing. The information of the military situation in the media is so sparse as to be almost non-existent. And the constant predictions … Read more
*SPOILERS INCLUDED* I have just finished reading Dostoevsky’s Demons for the second time. A conviction that has been drummed into me from my time doing A-Level English Literature is that you can never truly ‘get’ a novel until you have read it more than once. It took several re-readings for me to appreciate the poetic … Read more
In a new low for the IMT, they have just republished some articles by a man named Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army officer and intelligence expert turned conspiracy theorist and Kremlin asset. According to his Wikipedia page, this loon has appeared on far-right conspiracist channels like the French-language Russia Today and the far-right YouTube … Read more
Over the past month I have read both Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life and Gareth Stedman Jones’ Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. Both books have their strengths and weaknesses. Both do a convincing job of correcting the record on Marx and his relationship to the doctrine that bears his name. They put him … Read more
In a not entirely surprising development, the International Fascist Tendency has just published another article by the Dear Leader himself, Alan Woods, who at this point I think we can consider a paid agent of the Russian government. To this man I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers at this trying time. The … Read more
‘Dialectics is foresight over astonishment.’-Leon Trotsky ‘The imperialist propaganda machine insists that Putin has failed in his objective, and that the Russian army’s advance has been halted by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian army. …Ultimately, it is the balance of forces that will determine the outcome. And that is overwhelmingly in favour of Russia. … Read more
484. GOING OUR OWN WAY.-When we take the decisive step, and make up our minds to follow our own path, a secret is suddenly revealed to us: it is clear that all those who had hitherto been friendly to us and on intimate terms with us judged themselves to be superior to us, and are … Read more
When I was a member of the IMT, we were never given a convincing or coherent picture of how socialism would work in practice. The answer to all the economic problems of the world could be summed up by the same vague proposal, uncritically proffered to the starving masses, to implement a ‘nationalised planned economy’, … Read more