Behind the nonsense of the idolaters of the Leninist camp and the detractors of orthodox scholarship there exists a real historical figure.

Steve Coleman places Marx in a historical context that is both revealing and intriguing.

The Socialist Party has always claimed that Leninism was a gross distortion of Marxism. How could this distortion take place?

ADAM BUICK examines whether this distortion was deliberate or merely misguided.

In 1867 Marx wrote about "The fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof" in Capital.

DICK DONNELLY tries to apply this view to recent developments in modern society, where sport, music and drama take the form of commodities.

Since Marx's death in 1883 many new industries have come into being—aeronautics, computers, bio-genetics. In a world of global markets, where the ups and downs of the Tokyo stock exchange can affect a worker in Birmingham, has Marxian economics any relevance?

DAVE PERRIN analyses the proposition.

In what sense can a political party in 1998 claim to be Marxist?

STEVE COLEMAN looks at the non-Marxist and Marxist sources of the Socialist Party's principles and asks whether we need Marxism in the modern socialist movement.

A review of the course and discussion with the main speakers.

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