Marx Talks

From Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine to growing US-China tensions threatening conflict between two nuclear-armed superpowers, we are faced with constant reminders that war is in the DNA of capitalism. This session will explain why the capitalist system produces war, and how socialists have historically fought against militarism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marxism 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The tensions between the US and China have been steadily escalating under the Trump and Biden administrations. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of microchips, where the US has been making it increasingly difficult for China to acquire cutting edge equipment and knowhow. This matters because chips are vital to nearly every sector of the economy, from AI and telecommunications through...

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The Industrial Workers of the World were one of Australia's earliest revolutionary organisations. Their iconoclastic, rabble rousing approach to organising workers gained them the trust of many thousands. This session looked at the rise and fall of the 'Wobblies' (as they were known.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Marx has often been accused of a lack of interest in the questions of colonialism. This session refutes such claims by exploring Marx's attitude to the Irish question. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Georg Lukács’s History and Class Consciousness, published in 1923, is primarily seen as one of the great works of Marxist philosophy. But Lukács was also a commissar in the failed Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919 and a political leader in the exiled Hungarian Communist Party in Vienna throughout the 1920s. Along with labour leader Jenö Landler, Lukács led a faction opposing an ultra-left sectaria...

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The ideas of Mahatma Gandhi have had a lasting impact on the left, from the civil rights movement of the 1960s right through to the movements against corporate greed and racism that are developing today. Many see Gandhi as the embodiment of politically-effective pacifism. The success of his nonviolent strategy, however, is largely a myth. This talk discuss' the relationship that Gandhi had to the...

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Marxism 2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The dominant explanation for why the British colonised Australia is that their prisons were overflowing and they needed the space for transportation, but is that the whole picture? This talk will offer a Marxist explanation for the colonisation of Australia by Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Tsarist rule in nineteenth century Russia consisted of brutal oppression and political repression. Attempts at liberalisation were farcical and the society was extremely backwards in comparison to most European countries. In this context emerged a layer of student revolutionaries drawn mainly from the nobility. They wanted a fundamental overturning of Russia's political and economic structures. Th...

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The overturning of Roe vs Wade (and therefore the banning of legal abortion in much of the USA) sent shockwaves throughout the world and in Australia prompted a reinvestigation of our own abortion rights. This session will look at successful campaigns for abortion rights in a number of countries and ask how they might inform our own struggles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...

History's forgotten heroes don't get much more radical than the legendary John Brown. Born during the time of the great revolution of the Haitian slaves, he believed he was "an instrument of God", raised up to strike the death blow to American slavery, a "sacred obligation". He attempted to lead a slave revolt when he raided an armoury at Harpers Ferry - an act which help push the country inexorab...