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Demography Wars
The word “demography” is composed of two Greek words, “demos” meaning “people” and “graphy” meaning “science.” The term has been ascribed to a...
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Lenin and Philosophy: On the Philosophical Significance of Materialism and Empiriocriticism
This chapter discusses the philosophical importance of Lenin’s thought. It reevaluates Lenin’s philosophical legacy by examining his major and...
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A Critical Outlook on Approaches to Political Leadership and Nonkilling Peace
A critical outlook on approaches to political leadership and nonkilling peace which explores charismatic political leaders who tried to bring about a...
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Pure Cinema as Fine Art
Few can deny that today motion pictures have become an art of unrivaled public attention and unrivaled mobilization of creative resources. Whether...
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Introduction: Neue Engels-Lektüre
This introduction draws together the past and present problems of reading Engels, emphasizing the importance of the political background and...
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Arnošt Kolman’s Critique of Mathematical Fetishism
Arnošt Kolman (1892–1979) was a Czech mathematician, philosopher and Communist official. In this paper, we would like to look at Kolman’s arguments...
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What Is to Be Done in Times of Powerlessness? Lenin’s Years in Switzerland, September 1914 to April 1917
This book begins in August 1914. These were leaden times in which the mole of history had buried itself deep in the ground. No date revealed the...
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1927: Esfir (or Esphir) Shub
This chapter immerses itself in an analysis of the first use of the notion of compilation in documentary film history. The originator of this idea...
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The Origins of the Engels Debate
This chapter traces out the origins of the Engels debate. It goes back to the earlier critical readings of Hegel. It proposes that before Engels’...
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Marxism versus Liberalism Comparative Real-Time Political Analysis
“An extraordinary work of political historical analysis that methodically and convincingly argues for the superiority of a Marxist approach for...
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Social Ontology of Materialism and Idealism
This chapter begins with a defense of the interpretation of Marx’s materialism based upon the sovereignty of the finite thesis, the thesis that the...
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Ivan Ilyin: fascist or ideologue of the White Movement utopia?
The present article is an attempt at a closer reading of Ivan Ilyin’s relationship to fascism. This is explored primarily through a selection of...
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Mikhail Sholokhov, Andrei Platonov, and Varlam Shalamov: The Road to Hell in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
If the philosophy of history is preoccupied solely with historical knowledge about the past and present without imaging a desired future, it cannot...
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From State to Civil Society I
The period leading up the publication in 1843 of The Paris Manuscripts, Karl Marx’s critique of Hegel’s philosophy of law, has long been considered a...
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Soviet genetics and the communist party: was it all bad and wrong, or none at all?
The history of genetics and the evolutionary theory in the USSR is multidimensional. Only in the 1920s after the October Revolution, and due in large...
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The ABC of communism revisited
The ABC of communism by Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhenskii was both an exercise in utopian planning and a Left Communist manifesto. As...
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Globalization, Migrant Labour, and Capitalism: Past and Present
Migrant labour has been a feature of global capitalism since the latter’s beginning. Capitalism needed labour from colonies and semi-colonies, also...
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Conclusion
What, to repeat, are the broad and key conclusions to be drawn from the four real-time politics comparisons? How do the claims, again, that Marx,...
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The Ethics of Memory Modification: Personal Narratives, Relational Selves and Autonomy
For nearly two decades, ethicists have expressed concerns that the further development and use of memory modification technologies (MMTs)—techniques...
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Conclusion: What Is Dialectics of Nature?
The conclusion attempts to answer the question of the definition of ‘dialectics of nature’. It illustrates a hypothetical dialogue between Engels and...