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What’s the meaning of ‘revolution’?
Beyond a riot, revolt or rebellion lies a revolution – a fundamental change in who runs society for what purpose, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
What distinguishes Marxism from social democracy is the recognition that only through sustained struggle can the working class win political and state power
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REVOLUTION means the transfer of state power from one class to another.
Apart from the earliest “primitive” pre-feudal communities, all class societies, everywhere, throughout recorded history, have a state, defined as the structures and institutions of governance, law and administration.
The state is often presented as the “honest broker” of society, the guarantor of social stability and “freedom,” working in the interests of “the many.”
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MML director MEIRIAN JUMP outlines the recently refreshed library’s busy autumn schedule that ranges from book sales, archival exploration, community work with online education and the ever popular site tours
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School