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Internationalism No. 84, February 2026 Page 9 From the series Principles of Marxism The German Ideology arose from a party necessity: Marx and Engels’ struggle to guide the Communist League; in turn, the theses of The German Ideology laid the foundation, albeit indirectly, for Lenin’s conception of the party and the reflection on the science-party linked to it. Are there other theoretical-political battles in which we can trace that imprint? We limit the discussion here to three examples: the ideologies of State capitalism in the century of imperialism, the dialectic of unity and scission in world market relations, and the concept of external collision in the theory of international relations. [...] In the editorial The Political Ideas of Economic Dominance [September 1977], Arrigo Cervetto challenged one of the most foolish criticisms of Marxism according to which Marx did not want, or could not have wanted, to acco...

From the series Vaccines and world contention There are by now ten authorised vaccines already in use against SARSCoV-2, and there are 77 countries in which vaccinations are taking place. By mid-February, 173 million doses had been administered and the campaign is proceeding at an average rate of six million a day, calculated on the basis of last week’s figures. At this pace, it would take 5 years to vaccinate 75% of the world population with two doses [ Bloomberg , February 15 th ]. More than half of the injections have been carried out in the United States, the UK, and the European Union which, together, account for 11% of the world population. In at least one third of the 77 surveyed countries, less than 1% of the population have received their first dose of the vaccine, and, in the rest of the world, vaccines have not yet arrived. Imperialist globalisation Individual states are pursuing autonomous solutions to a global problem. Epidemiologists believe that, while a vast propo...