Socialist Appeal
The British section of the International Marxist Tendency
The decline of capitalism finds its reflection in the decline of philosophy. Nowhere is this clearer than with the intellectual trend that is postmodernism. Instead of this philosophical dead-end, we need the revolutionary ideas of Marxism.
In this extract from Wellred's upcoming title 'The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective', Alan Woods explains why Marxists must study the history of philosophy, and the enormous debt that Marxism owes to earlier thinkers.
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The latest title from Wellred Books, The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective, is out soon. This book is vital reading for any revolutionary who wishes to arm themselves with clear philosophical ideas that can change the world.
How do we acquire knowledge? Is there a real world beyond our senses? And if so, what is our relation to it? In this important theoretical contribution, Alan Woods mounts a defence of materialism against idealism and the obscurantist, postmodernist subjectivism popular on university campuses today.