Political Perspectives: World and Turkey - 2024

Marksist Tutum, January 2024

In the following document we, Marksist Tutum, present our perspectives and a general framework of our analyses of the political, economic and social developments in the world and Turkey, which will guide us in the period of struggle ahead.

published on 23 February 2024

Palestinian People in the Grip of Imperialist War

Marksist Tutum, 12 October 2023

The current conditions of imperialist war have linked the fate of the Palestinian people and the working classes of the Middle East more than ever before. This makes it necessary for the labourers of the region to wage a common struggle against capitalism. It is impossible to move forward without the participation...

published on 12 October 2023

Decaying Capitalism

Elif Çağlı, 29 November 2007

Since it reached the stage of imperialism in early 20th century, capitalism has developed a global system of workings and global relations on the basis of the law of combined and uneven development. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the collapse of the bureaucratic regimes in the Soviet Union and elsewhere,...

published on 26 December 2020

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /5

Elif Çağlı, 2 June 2005

The period of colonial expansionism of capitalism was accompanied by wars and territorial annexations driven by the ambition of the great powers to acquire ever larger colonies. The economic characteristic of this period was the increasing export of commodities to foreign markets, the import of cheap raw materials...

published on 18 January 2024

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /4

Elif Çağlı, 2 June 2005

One of the issues that needs to be carefully examined today is the view that imperialism, or globalisation as it is now called, is holding back underdeveloped countries and regions. Does the dominant position of capitalist countries, which are much more economically developed and powerful, really have a

published on 26 December 2023

The Facts Speak for Themselves!

Elif Çağlı, 31 December 2015

Since the beginning of the 21st century, capitalist system has been increasingly marked by crises and wars. As the system fails to solve its economic and political crises, authoritarianism and wars become more and more widespread on a worldwide scale. The apparatuses of the bourgeois order spread various lies aimed...

published on 28 July 2022

On "Turkish-type" Civil Fascism

2 January 2017

When we remember the two forms of fascism, namely military and civilian fascism, it is clear that, unlike Turkey's past experiences, what we are experiencing is a civilian type of fascism, not a military one. In contrast with the 12 September military fascism, the regime that is currently being established did not...

published on 18 November 2023

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /3

Elif Çağlı, 2 June 2005

Capitalism, which proceeds on the basis of the struggle of opposing tendencies, exhibits an uneven and combined development. This mode of production proceeds at different rates of development in enterprises, sectors and countries, and this unevenness is the motive force for the expansion and spread of...

published on 15 November 2023
From Bonapartism to Fascism

Part 3

Elif Çağlı, August 2004

The form of establishment of the bourgeois order in Turkey has completely different characteristics than the development process of the bourgeois order in the Western European countries, where the classic examples of bourgeois revolutions are seen. In France, for instance, bourgeois development began yet in the...

published on 20 October 2023

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