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Marxism Without its Head or its Heart:

A Reply to David North

To the members and supporters of the International Committee of the Fourth International:
For three years we tried to engage the leadership of the ICFI in a discussion over grave concerns we had about the theoretical and political orientation of the movement. Finally David North responded to our documents with his Marxism, History and Socialist Consciousness. It isn’t empty rhetoric on our parts to say that we would have welcomed being proven wrong. This would have demonstrated the basic political health of the IC, to say nothing of sparing us the thankless task of pursuing this polemic any further. Instead, North has produced a dreadful piece of work that only confirms in a striking manner all the concerns we have raised. It is a document that is rife with misrepresentations and evasions, it compounds serious political errors of judgment by stridently refusing to acknowledge them ...

Marx

Marx

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Paris Commune poster

Street demonstration, Petrograd, 18 June 1917. The banner in the foreground reads Down With The 10 Capitalist Ministers, All Power To The Soviets Of Workers', Soldiers', And Peasants' Deputies, And To The Socialist Ministers, We Demand That Nicholas II Be Transfered To The Peter-Paul Fortress.

Street demonstration, Petrograd, 18 June 1917.

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