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Marxism

The peculiar forms of repression in the Soviet Union

iDEOLOGY: MODERN TIMES brings, due to today's attention to Russia, a look at the Soviet Union 50 years ago. In the book from 1972, Herbert Marcuse describes and assesses the conditions, condition and possibilities of the Soviet Union – and Soviet Marxism as an ideology.
Orientering (1953-75) -

The divine comedy

EVIDENCE: God Himself is the problem of evil: must we kill, and must we kill many, and all the time, for the world to be better?
Truls Øhra -

150 years after Lenin's birth

ORIENTERING MAY 1, 1970: The world over will mark the 100th anniversary of Lenin's birth. Today, Lenin is a historical leading figure for rebellious people in the world's poorest peasant countries, writes Hans Fredrik Dahl in this article, emphasizing Lenin's role as dialectical revolutionary, politician and journalist rather than theorist and philosopher.
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Four measures against the use-and-throw culture

FALSE NEEDS: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need. He also suggests that in order to reduce today's consumption, manufacturers must make products with longer life and warranty.
Eivind Tjønneland -

Racism and class struggle

Only a radical abolition of the structural conditions for workers' exclusion – blacks as whites – could slow the ongoing social exclusion process in the United States, historian David Roediger claims in a new book.
Mikkel Bolt -

About Bert Brecht

This month marks the 70 year since Bertolt Brecht was born, and Georg Johannesen paints a portrait of the Marxist, moralist and poet. 
George Johannessen -

Johan Galtung: How is Norway going?

How independent and critical can one be? In Part 2 of the double interview with Johan Galtung, we talk about Norway's relationship with the United States, Sweden, Muslims, anarchism and Marxism.
Truls Lie -

Gone, but missed

Redemption and Utopia tells the story of European thinkers influenced by Jewish Kabbalah, Anarchism and Marxism – a type of thinker who no longer exists. 
Henning Næs -

Marx in dreams

Marxist humanism can help people feel at home in history, even when history hurts them. 
Henning Næs -

A Communist Manifesto

Can Karl Marx still show us some ways forward 168 years after the book came out?
Truls Lie -

Marxist alienation and post-anarchism

This month, Dag Østerberg published the book From Marx' to newer capital criticism. We take the opportunity to take up Marx in a critical way – with themes such as alienation, competitive society, as well as the role of anarchism and intellectuals now.
Truls Lie -

SUF and Mao Tse Tung

Mao's idealistic theory that the cultural revolution is enough to abolish classes is wrong – and our left's admiration of this superficial idea can have unfortunate consequences for politics going forward, Dag Østerberg writes in this text from 1968.
Dag Østerberg -

A truer human image

Here we bring you the first part of Jens Bjørneboe's article series "Socialism and freedom"
Jens Bjørneboe -

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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