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Alan Woods
Born
in Swansea, Wales, The United Kingdom
October 23, 1944
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Genre
Influences
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What Is Marxism?
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2007
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7 editions
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Reason in Revolt: Dialectical Philosophy and Modern Science
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1995
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The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective
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published
2021
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3 editions
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Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution
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published
1999
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9 editions
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Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood for
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2000
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17 editions
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Class Struggle in the Roman Republic
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2009
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3 editions
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Ted Grant: The Permanent Revolutionary
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published
2013
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5 editions
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The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter
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2019
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3 editions
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The Ideas of Karl Marx: Marx at 200
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2013
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5 editions
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Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution
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2005
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4 editions
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“Trotsky once wrote: "How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones?" Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.”
― What Is Marxism?
― What Is Marxism?
“It is an obvious fact that the banks and big monopolies are now dependent on the state for their survival. As soon as they were in difficulties, the same people who used to insist that the state must play no role in the economy, ran to the government with their hands out, demanding huge sums of money. And the government immediately gave them a blank cheque. Trillions of pounds of public money has been handed over to the banks, totalling some $14 trillion. But the crisis continues to deepen.
All that has been achieved in the last four years is to transform what was a black hole in the finances of the banks into a black hole in public finances. In order to save the bankers, everybody is expected to sacrifice, but for the bankers and capitalists no sacrifices are demanded. They pay themselves lavish bonuses with the money of the taxpayer. This is Robin Hood in reverse.”
― What Is Marxism?
All that has been achieved in the last four years is to transform what was a black hole in the finances of the banks into a black hole in public finances. In order to save the bankers, everybody is expected to sacrifice, but for the bankers and capitalists no sacrifices are demanded. They pay themselves lavish bonuses with the money of the taxpayer. This is Robin Hood in reverse.”
― What Is Marxism?
“Just as Charles Darwin explains that species are not immutable, and that they possess a past, a present and a future, changing and evolving, so Marx and Engels explain that a given social system is not something eternally fixed. That is the illusion of every epoch. Every social system believes that it represents the only possible form of existence for human beings, that its institutions, its religion, its morality are the last word that can be spoken.
That is what the cannibals, the Egyptian priests, Marie Antoinette and Tsar Nicolas all fervently believed. And that is what the bourgeoisie and its apologists today wish to demonstrate when they assure us, without the slightest basis, that the so-called system of "free enterprise" is the only possible system - just when it is beginning to sink.”
― What Is Marxism?
That is what the cannibals, the Egyptian priests, Marie Antoinette and Tsar Nicolas all fervently believed. And that is what the bourgeoisie and its apologists today wish to demonstrate when they assure us, without the slightest basis, that the so-called system of "free enterprise" is the only possible system - just when it is beginning to sink.”
― What Is Marxism?
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