Public post: in search of democratic centralism …
Hello all, Something slightly different this week. As mentioned in my last post, I have once again started to do a bit more digging into …
Social Democracy
August Bebel – The Social Position of Women Today (1891)
What is more, to the extent that they are excluded from having an influence on either of these things by our public institutions, women must encourage the men to get involved. For their part, the men must understand what an enormous power factor the women’s support for their efforts represents. The Catholic church understood this better than anybody else: it always sought to achieve its main influence through women. In future, the movement behind which the women stand will be the victorious one.
Episode 4: Rosa Luxemburg on Republicanism
Timestamps: 0:45 Introduction and nature of the articles I am translating 2:45 Luxemburg goes to Baden on a speaking tour 5:45 Party discipline and the …
Episode 2: Parvus, Zetkin and Social Democracy (with Lars T. Lih)
The Patrons of Marxism Translated are joined by Lars T Lih and other guests to discuss the significance of Clara Zetkin’s obituary of the ‘Merchant of Revolution’, Alexander Parvus.
Marxism Translated Podcast Episode 1: Martov and the Mass Strike
I outline my motivations behind translating Martov’s 1910 polemic against Rosa Luxemburg in the pages of Karl Kautsky’s weekly theoretical ‘Die Neue Zeit’ in 1910.