Day: 2 November 2020
Re-forming the Reformers
Further to previous articles on the Marxist Impossibilist tradition it must sound rather bizarre to modern ears that there exist political parties that do not make demands upon the present capitalist system and its protector, the State. For many people it seems common-sense that a socialist party should advocate for something right now. Labour and left-wing…
Joseph Dietzgen – The Workers Philosopher
This is an article written by Adam Buick for the journal Radical Philosophy 10. Spring 1975 . JOSEPH DIETZGEN is indeed a neglected philosopher. How many people know that he was the man Marx introduced to the 1872 Congress of the First International as ‘our philosopher’ ? Or that it was Dietzgen, not Plekhanov, who first coined the phrase ‘dialectical materialism’ ? Or…