Karl Kautsky (1854-1938), the ‘Pope of Marxism’, wrote the following article when he was the major theoretician of the German Social Democracy. It first appeared in Die Neue Zeit (Vol.XXII, no.4, 1903), the journal which Kautsky edited from 1883 to 1917, and appeared in English in the April 1946 edition of Fourth International.Part of the very problem which…

The German Communist Party: From Revolutionary Marxism to CentrismPART I From Revolutionary History, Vol.2 No.3, Autumn 1989. Used by permission. This general account of the fortunes of the KPD first saw the light in 1985 as part of an attempt to draw out its political lessons for the use of revolutionaries working in the labour movement.…

Twenty-five years after his death, Stanley Kubrick remains the most influential director in English-language cinema, yet his influence will be felt less and less if the industry continues its inexorable decline.Still from Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Credit: Album / Alamy Stock Photo The most commercially successful film of last year, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, may have attracted…

1982 Nobel Prize for Literature Jeff Rich Aug 31, 2024 Article voiceover 1× 0:00 -22:55 The most famous writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature between 1982 and 1988 was Gabriel García Márquez, the great ‘magical realist’ Colombian novelist. My approach in these weekly posts of the 120 Nobels Challenge has been to cover…

Today, we honour Ho Chi Minh: anti-colonialist, leader of the Vietnamese Communist movement, and the driving force behind Vietnam’s victory over French colonial rule. (1/9)Born on 19 May 1890, in the village of Kim Liên, Annam, Ho Chi Minh grew up in a family deeply engaged in anti-colonial activities. At 21, he began work as a…