In this talk at the SOAS Marxist Society, Adam Booth – editor of www.socialist.net – looks at the growing gap between the rich and poor in society today, contrasting the analysis of Thomas Piketty – the French “rock star” economist – and Karl Marx as to why capitalism creates inequality and a concentration of wealth.
In this episode of Marxist Voice, Sarah Vedrovitch discusses the United Front, a tactic adopted by the Communist International to connect the communists to the broader working class.
In this talk, Jack Tye Wilson provides a Marxist response to Stalin’s “theory” of ‘socialism in one country’, and outlines the disastrous consequences of the Comintern’s abandonment of internationalism.
In the third part of our podcast series on the lessons of the Communist International, Thomas Soud covers the ultra-left mistakes made by the young forces of communism, and how Lenin and the Comintern corrected this “infantile disorder”.