Most ‘mainstream’ historians tend to reject the Marxist view that the course of historical development has been fundamentally determined by laws that we can grasp scientifically. Many also reject the idea of progress as a whole as merely a ‘point of view’. To them, history is little more than a series of accidents, or the choices of great individuals. But if this is the case, then why can we recognise so many common processes across human history, in which similar institutions, events, and even characters arise independently of one another, all over the world? And has there really been no progress at all between stone tools and spacecraft?

Josh Holroyd, leading member of the Revolutionary Communist International and editor of the In Defence of Marxism magazine, discusses the topic.

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What is value? This question has perplexed the human mind for more than 2,000 years. The classical bourgeois economists grappled with the question, as did Marx.

Joe Russell, Executive Committee member of the RCP, discusses Marx’s completion of the Labour Theory of Value, and provide a defence of his economic ideas against attacks from modern day critics.

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As British capitalism’s first colony, imperialism cut its teeth in Ireland. The domination of Ireland by British capitalists, landlords, and financiers resulted in untold horrors; from the artificial famine of the 1840s and 50s, to the war for national liberation, through to the murder of unarmed civilians on Bloody Sunday.

In this session from the Revolution Festival 2024, Shaun Morris, Central Committee member of the RCP, discusses the cruel legacy of British imperialism in Ireland.

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