The most basic premise of Hegel’s philosophy was that the history of mankind was the result of conflict. Two ideas clash and the result is a third idea, which in turn comes into conflict with another and gives birth to something new. The nature of life is therefore dynamic; change is at its […]
MARS took a break for a few months. We’re back. To focus on education. Revolution is a serious undertaking. It requires serious study. We seek to hone the science of Marxism. To develop it further and share. To help revolutionaries find their way to victory in the complex global battles of this coming decade. This is […]
Communism and Marxism are different. Communism is a striving and goal for society. Marxism is a social science which describes why society transitions from one mode of production to the next. Marxism is also a philosophy based on materialism and dialectics. Nor are communism and socialism the same. The socialist countries of the 20th century […]
Institute for the Study of the Science of Society “While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy – Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism – walking the corridors of the Pentagon.” US Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (retired) speaking about the prevailing mood and decision-making process at the Pentagon, 2004. This […]
What is Marxist Glossary for the 21st Century As huge numbers of people are suddenly wanting to talk about Marxism and socialism, communism, fascism, etc., the discussion has been impeded by not having a common agreement on the meaning of these words. How can we talk when even those of us who consider ourselves Marxists […]
At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations […]
It was precisely Marx who had first discovered the great law of motion of history, the law according to which all historical struggles, whether they proceed in the political, religious, philosophical or some other ideological domain, are in fact only the more or less clear expression of struggles of social classes, and that the existence […]
This past Earth Day 2017, scientists marched on Washington and around the world to protest the ruling class’ war on science. During a revolutionary leap from one mode of production to another – a leap toward laborless production – the ruling class knows it cannot maintain control if people look at what’s happening scientifically. By […]
WHAT IS SCIENCE Handbook of Philosophy by Howard Selsum (1949) [Science is] the organized body of knowledge concerning nature and society acquired in the historical evolution of social life. In a broad sense, science is the name for both the accumulated knowledge we have, at any time, of any and all aspects of phenomena, and […]
WHY STUDY? Dedicating oneself to changing society — to creating a world where we cannot just survive but flourish; and not just ourselves but everyone and not just for our generation, but also for future generations – is the most profound task anyone could undertake. Such a serious undertaking demands that we take it seriously. […]
