Why historical materialism matters By Eddy Laing At the core of Marxism is the methodology of historical materialism (HM), which “regards every historically developed social form as in fluid movement, and therefore takes into account its transient nature not less than its momentary existence.” 1 As developed by Marx and Engels, the dialectical materialist conception [...]
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Avakian on Jefferson: A Critical Reading part 1
This is the first of a three-part series written for Kasama. by Pavel Andreyev The Revolutionary Communist Party describes Bob Avakian’s latest essay, Communism and Jeffersonian Democracy, as an “unsparing critique of the history…of American society” and is promoting it with the same urgency it devoted to the author’s Away With All Gods! earlier this [...]


