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• The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  16 January 2022

  The Copenhaguen Interpretation of Quantum Physics and Critics of that Philosophical Conception
  Arguments of Bohr against Einstein
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article6136
  Discussions between Einstein and Bohr
  https://www.matierevolution.org/spip.php?article4756
  The History of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg
  https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heisenb2.htm
  The Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Theory, by Heisenberg (…)

• The legacy of Charles Darwin - L’héritage de Charles Darwin
  21 April 2015, by Robert Paris

  The legacy of Charles Darwin
  150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species
  Roy Farrar, from The Socialist (weekly paper of CWI England and Wales)
  Charles Darwin’s theory of ’natural selection’ changed the way that we look at ourselves. It contradicted the idea of an outside ’intelligent designer’, so it met a reaction from the religious establishment that still exists in part today. Some schools, particularly in the US, are teaching evolution as ’one point of view’ (…)

• What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  8 août 2025, par Robert Paris

  What Future ? Capitalism ? Socialism ?
  Capitalism’s "recovery plans" are a symptom of the impending death of the old dominant socio-economic system in artificial survival mode.
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article5841&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  When big capital no longer bets on... capitalism
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article8286&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  In the face of the current (…)

• Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  14 January 2022, by Robert Paris

  Writings on Discontinuity of Nature
  Discontinuity of Matter, Energy, Light and Vacuum
  https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article4260
  What is continuity and discontinuity?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article11&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  Continuity, a mathematical property?
  https://www-matierevolution-fr.translate.goog/spip.php?article18&_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr
  How discontinuity, general and fundamental, (…)

• Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  28 July 2014, by Robert Paris

  F.F. Raskolnikov
  Tales of Sub-Lieutenant Ilyin
  Raskolnikov’s Open Letter to Stalin
  This document, dated August 17, 1939, was first published in the Paris émigré newspaper Novqya Rossya of October 1, 1939. According to Roy Medvedev, Let History Judge, (p.257), in 1964 the author’s widow, a resident of France, brought the original of the letter to Moscow. It circulated widely through samizdat channels in the mid-1960s. The translator is indebted to the Current Affairs Research Section of (…)

• Karl Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  21 January 2022

  Karl Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  Introduction
  For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
  The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a (…)

• Hegel’s philosophy and science
  10 February 2009

  Hegel’s philosophy and science
  Friday 1 January 2010
  Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature
  Analytical Table of Contents Preliminary
  § 192 Nature has presented itself as the idea in the form of otherness. § 193 Hence nature exhibits no freedom in its existence, but only necessity and contingency. § 194 Nature is to be viewed as a system of stages, in which one stage necessarily arises from the other. § 195 Nature is, in itself a living whole. § 196 The idea as nature can be named mathematics, (…)

• Religion : its social roots and role
  2 June 2008, by Robert Paris

  Definitions of religion, like definitions of the state, generally tell us more about the social and political allegiances of the author of a given definition than about the true nature of religion or the state. Loyalties – that is, class interests and class outlook – are transferred into definitions; especially is this true of religion. Typical of such definitions is a theologian’s formula for Christianity as ‘the synthesis of the highest aspirations of man’. The fact that definitions are (…)

• Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  4 December 2021

  C.L.R. James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (…)

• Revolution and counter-revolution in Spain
  19 September 2010

  FOR the new generations moving into political life a study of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 contains valuable lessons. This book, hammered out in time with the dramatic events it describes, stands in direct line with the great writings of Marx and Engels on the Revolutions of 1848 and the Paris Commune and Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution. No doubt later historical research has been able to uncover from the record a more detailed account of the facts, and the reports of (…)