A Marxist History of The World
Sunday, 30 December 2012 16:46
Historian Neil Faulkner concludes A Marxist History of the World by looking at what that history can tell us about the possibility for radical social change
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Four years after the beginning of the crisis, the neoliberal elite is trapped by the contradictions of the system on which its wealth depends, writes Neil Faulkner
The financial crisis represents the end of an era in which greed and casino-madness had been given free rein by market deregulation and rising debt
The Al-Qaida terror attacks allowed the great powers to justify new imperialist wars to safeguard the interests of global capital, writes Neil Faulkner
The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect, writes Neil Faulkner
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere, writes Neil Faulkner
The long sleep of the post-war period was brought to an end in 1968, as revolts erupted across the developed world, writes Neil Faulkner
Neil Faulkner explains how an army of peasant guerrillas managed to defeat US imperialism in a full-scale war
The reforms that Fidel Castro introduced after the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship were real, but they were bestowed from above and straitjacketed by poverty, writes Neil Faulkner
1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again, writes Neil Faulkner
British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East
In spite of the imperialist powers' attempts to cling on to their colonies, formal empire was finished by the late 1970s. But this was not the end of imperialism, writes Neil Faulkner
After the revolution of 1949, the Chinese Communists resorted to state capitalism to force the country’s industrialisation. The consequences were disastrous, writes Neil Faulkner
In the first three decades after the war, the world economy experienced unprecedented growth rates and falling unemployment. But the boom rested on unstable foundations, writes Neil Faulkner
The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away
Large parts of Occupied Europe were liberated by local resistance movements. But the potential for a revolutionary transformation was smothered at birth, writes Neil Faulkner
The Second World War was characterised by primeval savagery. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia and Militarist Japan waged war with unprecedented brutality, but the ‘democracies’ also committed terrible war crimes
With the great powers fighting to defend their empires, the Second World War would re-divide the world between competing blocs of capitalists, writes Neil FaulknerMore Articles...
- A Marxist History of the World part 87: The Causes of the Second World War
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
- A Marxist History of the World part 85: June 1936: the French general strike and factory occupations
- A Marxist History of the World part 84: State Capitalism in Russia
- A Marxist History of the World part 83: 1933: the Nazi seizure of power
- A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
- A Marxist History of the World part 81: The Roaring Twenties
- A Marxist History of the World part 80: Stalinism: the bitter fruit of revolutionary defeat
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
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How a Century of War Changed the Lives of Women
By Lindsey German
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
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The People V Tony Blair
Politics, the Media and the Anti-War Movement
By Chris Nineham
Timelines
A Political History of the Modern World
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A People's History of London
By Lindsey German and John Rees
Counterfire Books
The People Demand: A short history of the Arab revolutions
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Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
By John Rees
Capitalism and Class Consciousness: the ideas of Georg Lukacs
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