Once the final economic crisis of capitalism has occurred, the fate of the revolution depends on the ideological maturity of the proletariat, on its class consciousness. This determines the unique ...

For nearly half a century, History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs has been considered a sort of underground Marxist Classic. When an ENglish translation finally appeared last year, it was ...

Rosedale Avenue is a quiet street in Columbus, Ohio, with compact houses that are showing some wear. I recently spent an evening talking with some of the residents on their doorsteps about their jobs, ...

“Throughout history there is only one thing that ruling interests have ever wanted — and that’s everything.” —Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996), p.46. A recent ...

I've been trying to fight against the impulses of accelerationism for decades, and I tend to think of myself as an institutionalist and an incrementalist. But you can't deny the obvious truth that the ...

JANE ADDAMS, in Twenty Years at Hull House, implies that the two doctrines of economic determinism and class-consciousness have deterred her from accepting socialism. Now, the form in which these ...

An absolute precondition for class warfare is class consciousness. And one of the great mysteries of American history is that with just a few transient exceptions, there has been near zero class ...

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