Theory

Principled Attitude in Trade Union Struggle

The question of how to approach the trade union struggle has always given rise to important debates, depending on different political conceptions. This question has lost none of its importance today. Especially in view of the conditions of decline of the labour movement, it is clear that the class today needs views...

published on 26 June 2024
Growing Working Class

Academic Marxism Bidding Farewell to the Proletariat

For the success of the working class struggle the unity of two fundamental elements, namely the Marxist world view and the militant action of the working class, is essential. This unity has been profoundly shattered by the unfavourable conditions which began with the retreat of the revolutionary wave in Western...

published on 18 June 2024
Growing Working Class

Preface

It is the globalised proletariat, not the “popular alliances” dominated by the petty-bourgeoisie, that is ringing the danger bells of the globalising capitalist order of exploitation. Our aim in this book is to clarify the reality of the working class in various aspects under the shining scientific light of Marxism....

published on 13 June 2024

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /6

Capitalism’s law of uneven and combined development accelerates the globalisation of capital and formation of large economic unions, while at the same time producing even greater inequality and fierce competition. It is clear that the tendency towards unity, which is rooted in economic base, is doomed to be in...

published on 15 May 2024

Political Perspectives: World and Turkey - 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

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /4

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
From Bonapartism to Fascism

Preface

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
From Bonapartism to Fascism

Part 3

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

From Bonapartism to Fascism

A Marxist Analysis of Extraordinary Bourgeois Regimes

In this book, Elif Çağlı, by taking into consideration a wide range of experiences ranging from Louise Bonaparte's experience of 18 Brumaire during the Marx era in France to the Bismarck era in Germany, from Italian and German fascism to Spain and Portugal, from Greece to Latin America, reveals the forms and...

published on 20 October 2023

Globalisation: Uneven and Combined Capitalist Development /2

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

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

Forward to the Future with the Lessons of the Past

It is clear as day for those who succeed in drawing the lessons of the past and move forwards to the future: The experience so far does not demonstrate the downfall of Marxism, but of a conception of “socialism” that is its negation. As the end of the decaying capitalism comes closer, Marxism continues to guide...

published on 16 May 2021

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