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Why is Marxism a better kind of philosophy?
Marxism gets to grips with how things really are and how they change, explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
In simple terms because it engages with the real world and its origins, interactions and change, not (or not merely) with abstractions.
The first chapter of Bertrand Russell’s The Problems of Philosophy (1912, and still used as an introduction to philosophy) titled Appearance and Reality asks whether the table that we sit at corresponds to what we experience with our senses. It concludes: “Doubt suggests that perhaps there is no table at all.”
The book’s final sentence reads: “Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves.”
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