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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...

Internationalism No. 83, January 2026 Pages 8 and 9 From the series Sixty years of Lotta Comunista in the Workers' Clubs From September to December, on the occasion of the 60 th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of Lotta Comunista , all of our workers' clubs engaged in meetings in which a collective reflection took place on the concept, formation, and experience of our Leninist party, and on the concrete implementation of its strategy. In December 1965, the outline and structure of today's newspaper and party were already in place. In every directive, even in the remarks on the margins of reports, even in what may seem to be mere details, that party objective was evident. The starting point for all these reflections was this remark by Friedrich Engels, who on September 12 th , 1882, replied to Karl Kautsky, almost surprised at the question: You ask me what the English workers think of colonial policy. Well...

Internationalism No. 71, January 2025 Pages 1 and 2 The consciousness of the proletariat “cannot be genuine class-consciousness, unless the workers learn, from concrete, and above all from topical, political facts and events to observe every other social class in all the manifestations of its intellectual, ethical, and political life; unless they learn to apply in practice the materialist analysis and the materialist estimate of all aspects of the life and activity of all classes, strata, and groups of the population”. If it concentrates exclusively “or even mainly” upon itself alone, the proletariat cannot be revolutionary, “for the self-knowledge of the working class is indissolubly bound up, not solely with a fully clear theoretical understanding or rather, not so much with the theoretical, as with the practical, understanding — of the relationships between all the various classes of modern society”. For this reason, the worker “must have a clear picture in ...