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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 ...

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Soviet leaders in Red Square, Moscow, 1919

Soviet leaders in Red Square, Moscow, 1919

Same photo of Soviet leaders altered by Stalinist censors. Trotsky has been eliminated to the right of Lenin and Kamenev to the left. Also, the man with a heavy beard in front of Trotsky, a Georgian Bolshevik leader, has disappeared.

Same photo of Soviet leaders altered by Stalinist censors. Trotsky has been eliminated to the right of Lenin and Kamenev to the left. Also, the man with a heavy beard in front of Trotsky, a Georgian Bolshevik leader, has disappeared.

Volume 1 Number 1 of New International, Theoretical organ of American Trotskyism

Volume 1 Number 1 of New International, Theoretical organ of American Trotskyism

 Marxism Without its Head or its Heart
 Chapter 1 - Rationalizing Objectivism and Abandoning Marxism
 Chapter 2 - The WSWS as a Left Apologist for Bourgeois Nationalism in Iraq
 Chapter 3 - Their Science and Ours
 Chapter 4 - The Long Road Back to Pragmatism
 Chapter 5 - Abandoning the Struggle for Socialist Consciousness in the Working Class
 Chapter 6 - The Real Dialectic of the Enlightenment
 Chapter 7 - Objectivism and Socialist Consciousness - Part 1
 Chapter 8 - Objectivism and Socialist Consciousness - Part 2
 Chapter 9 - Remarks on Bernstein, 'Neo-Utopianism' and Political Amalgams
 Chapter 10 - Mass Psychology and Marxism
 Chapter 11 - Conclusion
 Afterword - A Letter from David North
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