REVOLUTION - Ideas

Turning peasants into workers The birth pains of capitalism	Capitalism: What is it and how does it work?
The brutal beginings of the system we live under. What they wont tell you in school text books. Read on...	You hear the word everywhere, but what is it? The simple answer is: it's the system we live in Read on...
Communism: What we mean buy it	Socialism: A thing of the past?
The word conjures up images of a grey world of queues, lack of freedom and failure. But for us, communism means something different. It means fighting the deep-seated injustices of the system we live under today, siding with working class people all around the world when they fight for a better life, and pointing the way forward to a future free from poverty, oppression and war. Read on...	If you read the mainstream papers, then you probably have some idea of what you think socialism is: Socialism happened years ago under Labour governments, but only a few old men in cloth caps still believe in it. Read on...
Exploitation: It happens all the time	Class Why worry about the question of class?
When people complain that they are being 'exploited' at work, they usually mean that they are being treated unfairly or being ripped off. Read on...	Class is inseparable from capitalism- as long as you have one, you have the other. What's more, only a view of the world that recognises the division of humanity into different classes can explain how capitalism works, and how we can get rid of it. Read on...
Marxism or Anarchism: What's the difference?	Russia What went wrong?
REVOLUTION wants to build a movement that can overthrow this system and create a society based on equality and freedom. But it is not an anarchist website. We are Marxists. This article explains the difference between Marxism and Anarchism on one crucial question: the state. Read on...	The Russian revolution of October 1917 was the most important event of the twentieth century. It changed the face of history. Workings took power and set themsleves the task of building a world socialist society, based on mutual co-operation and production for need instead of profit. So what went wrong? Read on...
IMPERIALISM The highest stage of capitalism
Lenin described imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. The nature of capitalism and its doctrine of profit maximisation means that imperialism is a process that the capitalists are forced into in search of greater profits in ever shrinking and unstable markets. The idea of imperialism can be roughly broken down into three main categories: monopolies, finance capital and militarism. Read on...