Western powers and multinational corporations continue to exploit Africa’s natural resources, exploit its labour, and perpetuate dependency through unequal trade relations and debt burdens
Value is subjective. Things have no intrinsic value but to the degree that someone desires the
Human greed has brought us to the brink of societal collapse. It is time for a student-led revolution to promote a transition to a new economic system
A recent column by Ivo Vegter in the Daily Maverick posited that there is a ‘strong left-wing tendency in academia
The leaders of Renamo and Frelimo hail the ‘new era’ ending clashes between the two since 2013
‘Class, in other words, is much more than just one aspect of the social complex,’ writes one of our readers
Biological traits and social constructions play a part in our nuanced relations with each other
Despite McKaiser’s best attempts, he can’t shrug off the core elements of exploitative capitalism
The meaning of liberal is lost and, no, it doesn’t mean that you’ll be in Zille’s WhatsApp group
As change seems finally within reach, we must assess the political work that needs to be done
Readers write in about Marxism and economics, and the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Martin Legassick, expelled from the ANC, was acclaimed as one of the leading thinkers of the South African left.
Readers write in about the climate, the ANC, and Marxism.
The friction between different schools of socialist thinking has produced more light than heat for South Africa.
His dissident views made him a renegade communist, but a new biography confirms Harold Wolpe as an influential radical voice.
The role and relevance of Marxism to a wide variety of issues – ranging from democracy to the environment – is explored in a new book.
The allegiance to Marxist-Leninism and statism is out of step with modern democratic practice.
Mass protests and the violent reaction of the state indicate that SA is in a period of possible rearticulation of politics, says Andile Mngxitama.
More interesting than party membership is the extent to which Marxism informed Mandela’s political thinking, writes Paul Trewhela.
Ideologists with cast-iron theories don’t like unpleasant facts, writes Stephen Ellis.
The breadth of Eric Hobsbawm’s work and the reach of his intellect was always startling.
South Africans seem to have lost the ability to see more than one side of a story, writes Caroline Southey.
Eric Hobsbawm retraces the development of communist theory.
A Marxist novel written in 1929 has climbed to the top of Japan’s bestseller list.