Originally published by Textuel in 2025 as La nouvelle internationale fasciste, the English language edition will be updated by the author. We are aiming for a October 2026 publication date.
‘Present-day society, which breeds hostility between the individual man and everyone else, thus produces a social war of all against all which inevitably in individual cases, notably among uneducated people, assumes a brutal, barbarously violent form – that of crime.’
– Friedrich Engels, ‘Speeches in Elberfeld, 1845’i
‘The foundation of all states occurs in a situation that we can thus call revolutionary. It inaugurates a new law, it always does so in violence.’
Het Kapitaal is een van de meest invloedrijke boeken in de wereldgeschiedenis. Naast dat het zeer invloedrijks is – de marxistische waardetheorie staat nog steeds als een huis – is het ook een notoir lastig boek om zelfstandig te lezen en te doorgronden. Een inleiding in Het Kapitaal van Karl Marx geeft inzicht in de drie delen van Marx’ meesterwerk. Helder maar zonder versimpeling bespreekt Heinrich de rol van arbeid, waarde, uitbuiting en kapitaal bij Marx. Michael Heinrich laat zien hoe Marx de ‘spookachtige’ logica van het kapitalisme analyseerde.
Dialectical reason is, when set against the dominant mode of reason, unreason: only in encompassing and cancelling this mode does it become itself reasonable.
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima moralia
The history of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, the POUM, is the history of thousands of men and women who fought to transform the world and would be at the centre of one of the most profound revolutions of the 20th century.
Founded in September 1935, of the many dissident communist groupings that emerged internationally in the 1930s, the POUM was the most important. The largest workers party in Catalonia before the Civil War, the POUM, it had in its ranks the two most outstanding Marxist theorists of the time in Spain: Joaquín Maurín and Andreu Nin.
On November 6 we lost our friend and comrade Paul Mepschen. Paul was for many years a supporter of the IIRE.