Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

By Terry Eagleton

Socialist Press no. 214, 10 September 1980 · scan pp. 9–10 · about 145 words

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This Socialist Press pamphlet contains articles by Terry Eagleton on marxist theoreticians from the time of the Comintern to the present day-Lukacs, Korsch, Gramsci, Benjamin, Marcuse, Sartre and Althusser.

Price 65p including P&P from WSL, BM Box 5277, Tentacles But while imperialism reaches out with its countless tentacles to embrace the petty bourgeois leaders of the underdeveloped countries, the very backwardness of the economy means that possibilities of an alternative are at best limited. As Ellellou points out:

"A state such as Kush is too thin to be administered except by gestures. When we effected the Revolution we discovered a strange thing. There was nothing to revolutionise. Our Minister of Industry looked for factories to nationalise, and there were none... There was poverty but no oppression; how could this be?" London WC1V 6XX STILL AVAILABLE

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SOCIA LIST PRESS, Wednesday September 10th, MONSERIAL NEWK

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 214, 10 September 1980