Marxism Today was the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain prior to its dissolution in 1991. It was particularly important during the late 1980s editorship of Martin Jacques.
Every time Marxism is buried, it seems to rise from the dead, whether a decade or a few years or even a few months later—to become recognized, by supporters and opponents alike, as an important influence on a new generation concerned with the issues of justice, equality and resistance.
Marxism must be a living set of ideas that helps to better understand the world—and more importantly, how to change it.
Stalinism, for example, turned “official Marxism” into a dull and wooden economic determinism—and the rulers of the ex-USSR were quick to repress political struggles that didn’t fit their interests, such as the demand for national liberation in the USSR’s republics or the struggle for gay and lesbian liberation.
The insistence of the ruling ideology today to re- identify the Soviet Union with Marxism and communism, in the teeth of all the studies to the contrary by many bourgeois analysts, is a propaganda weapon in the current attack against Marxism and genuine worker-communism.
Today, at least in the West, apparently communism is not banned, but the propaganda campaign of the bourgeoisie against socialism, its economic war on the working class and the existing mass unemployment have a similar effect.
Today they are giving free play to these tendencies so that, thanks to the climate thus created, they may crush radicalism and struggles for justice and freedom and establish their own right-wing laws as the bases of the New World Order.
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