The left must answer its own difficult questions
Max brings capitalist power under scrutiny while refusing to excuse failures committed in communism’s name. His friends disagree about class, revolution, the state, ecology and the difference between public ownership and public control.
International discussion circle
A Marxist political economist from Germany; a Leninist organiser from an international diaspora; a Maoist historian from South Asia; a Latin American green-left thinker; a European cooperative advocate; a disillusioned former party organiser. Avoid making nationality a shorthand for ideology.
The economic conclusion
Who actually controls production? Can workers refuse or leave? Does a reform distribute agency or strengthen the institution claiming to represent them?
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