From Bonapartism to Fascism

Preface

Elif Çağlı, 23 August 2004

It is clear that the analysis of the bourgeois state and its different forms is of central importance in Marxist theory. Based on the problems in this field, Marxist circles have over the years conducted debates and took different approaches. The differences in analyses on the extraordinary forms of rule of the...

published on 27 October 2023

Solidarity Actions for the Palestinian People Spread Across the World

Marksist Tutum, 26 October 2023

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, massacre of thousands of Palestinians, and the intensification of its attacks following Hamas’ rocket attacks are being protested in many countries with demonstrations attended by hundreds of thousands of people. Despite the bans ordered by the governments that support Israel, 300...

published on 26 October 2023

Revolutionary Resistance is the Only Antidote to Fascism

Elif Çağlı, 5 September 2017

In the book Bonapartizmden Faşizme [From Bonapartism to Fascism] and many articles in Marksist Tutum both Bonapartist regimes and fascist regimes and developments in that direction in Turkey have been examined at length. Here, building upon what we have said before, we will briefly touch upon some...

published on 27 October 2017

The Question of Transition and the Transitional Programme

Elif Çağlı, 26 January 2006

The question of transition is directly linked with the fact that capitalism in its imperialist stage is the age of proletarian revolutions. This question expressed by Lenin was brought up in order to win the mass of the working class to the cause of the proletarian revolution and advance the struggle to this end....

published on 29 October 2018

Go on Your Own Way!..

Elif Çağlı, 28 June 2009

The principles marking the Bolshevik political organisation (an organised and disciplined functioning on every level, based on democratic centralism) are cornerstones of the Leninist conception of party. The goal of such a party is essentially to arm vanguard workers with communist consciousness, and try to drive...

published on 10 June 2018

In the Middle of Danger

Elif Çağlı, 28 May 2006

Venezuela is under threat of a military intervention and a coup staged by the US imperialism. In many writings in which we analysed the situation in Venezuela since Chavez came to power we said that so called "Bolivarian revolution" is not a revolution but a bourgeois reform programme and that it actually formed an...

published on 6 February 2019

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /2

Elif Çağlı, 2 June 2005

Although capitalist development gradually created a single world market, this mode of production initially emerged only in a region with certain conditions, the West, where feudalism flourished. It is well known that human history does not have a uniform line of progress. While the feudal mode of production...

published on 18 October 2023

History Calls On the Working Class for Duty

Elif Çağlı, 2 January 2015

Many years have passed since the foundations of Marxism were laid. Through all these years capitalism has moved towards building a world system and inevitably has grown the working class into an enormous scale around the world. Under capitalism, history has still been a history of class struggles as had been the...

published on 22 December 2021

Crisis of the Regime and the Dynamics of Struggle

Marksist Tutum, 17 December 2021

It has been quite obvious for some time that the fascist regime is in serious trouble as it failed to prevent the slide from economic crisis to economic collapse and used up the space for manoeuvre in foreign policy. As this plight worsens, the regime faces a deadlock, which also triggers a loosening of its inner...

published on 4 January 2022

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