It is widely accepted that an essential premise of Marx’s theory is that socialism must have a party as its vehicle. I do not accept this claim.
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On January 4, 2026, Platypus Affiliated Society member Efraim Carlebach interviewed Tony Collins about his book Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884–1921.
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The “impossibilist revolt” in the Social Democratic Federation (SDF) at the turn of the last century led to the formation of two new political parties — the Socialist Labour Party of Great Britain (SLP-GB) in 1903 and the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) in 1904. In the period up until the outbreak of the First World War, both parties were roughly the same size — each with no more than three hundred members. Yet labor historians have concentrated on the history and theories of the SLP-GB to the almost complete neglect of those of the SPGB, and worse, relegated the latter to a sneering footnote.
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Tom Canel’s essay on my debate with Benjamin Studebaker, between pursuit of freedom and the Good, tries to address my writing as a logical problem. But it begins with a misapprehension: not I but Studebaker introduced the category of the “body” into our dispute about Platonism and Marxism. Not my argument but his hinges on the natural body as a phenomenon. For me it is a historical form of appearance in society; for him it is an emanation of the Good — falling away from it.
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Dear comrades, we are writing to you from the middle of a war.
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