Introduction Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, is a well-loved revolutionary across countries and movements, whose name embodies the spirit of working-class internationalism. Originally produced and distributed in video format, this 3 -part course...
Sobreproducción: lo absurdo del sufrimiento en medio de excedentes
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo “Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst plenty“, puede encontrar la versión original aquí. Introducción El acertijo popular de la década de 1930 sobre un minero de carbón resume una de las...
Overproduction: The absurdity of suffering amidst surpluses
Introduction A popular coal-miner’s riddle from the 1930s summarizes one of capitalism’s most visible and absurd contradictions. After a daughter asks her father why their home is so cold, he tells her they don’t have any money to purchase coal. He explains they don’t...
Lenin and the path to revolution: 3-class video course with Brian Becker
Introduction Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, more commonly known as Lenin, is a well-loved revolutionary across countries and movements, whose name embodies the spirit of working-class internationalism. This 3 part course with Brian Becker focuses on the life, and legacy of...
The Marxist theory of the state: An introduction
Editor's note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. Introduction Our understanding of the state lies at the heart of our struggle to create a new society and fundamentally eliminate the oppression, exploitation, war, and environmental destruction...
Thomas Sankara: The Burkinabè revolution is not a replica
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of an interview with Thomas Sankara by Ivoire Dimanche, initially released online in French under the title "The Burkinabè Revolution Is Not the Copy of Any Other Revolution." Published in the...
¿Qué es el imperialismo? Una introducción
Nota del equipo editorial: Esta es una traducción del artículo "What is imperialism? An Introduction", puede encontrar la versión original aquí. En el sufrimiento del Sur Global, la brutalidad del capitalismo queda expuesta. En una nota al calce al final de El...
Clarifying and inspiring revolution for 130 years: Marx’s “Critique of the Gotha Programme”
Karl Marx never intended to spell out what the communist future would look like or how we would get there. His writing that comes closest to doing this is a short letter he wrote in 1875, given the title Critique of the Gotha Programme. Published 130 years ago—in...
What is imperialism? An introduction
Editor's note: A Spanish translation of this article is available here. In the suffering of the Global South, the brutality of capitalism lies bare. In a footnote toward the end of Capital, Marx wrote that the colonized subject reveals “what the bourgeois makes of...