The point is so elementary it ought not to require a quotation from Engels or anyone else to establish it. But, since the argument here points in a direction that many on the Left do not want to go, let us go with Engels. ‘The condition of the working class is the real basis and
With its provocative title, Andreas Malm’s 2021 How to Blow Up a Pipeline broke out of the left ghetto and gained mainstream attention for the argument that the climate change crisis is so severe that direct action is justified. Certainly, we need more mass protest and campaigns to push for change. But Malm wants to
**For a reply to this article by John Marot, go here.** John Marot’s The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect (Historical Materialism Book Series 2012https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/511-the-october-revolution-in-prospect-and-retrospect) is an important collection of essays which I have positively reviewed inRevolutionary Russia.[1] It contains essays on four different areas. There is John’s work on Bogdanov, his
