Cyril Smith

This is the full text, in PDF format, of Cyril Smith's "Karl Marx and the Future of the Human".

Karl Marx and Human Self-creation

Part 1. Introduction: Marx's Critical Science

How can six billion human beings live on this small planet without destroying each other? Which features of humanity make this question so difficult to answer? Which make it possible? Such ways of putting the problem may sound comparatively modern, but some of the greatest thinkers have grappled with more or less the same issues over the past two or three thousand years.

A contribution by Cyril Smith to the International Socialist Forum Seminar on "Beyond Capital", by István Mészáros, 28 June, 1998.

In the book by EO Abbott called Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions, 'A Square' tries to persuade his fellow two-dimensional beings - triangles, hexagons, and so on - that other dimensions are possible. William Blake lived in a four-dimensional moral world, and for that reason he was considered quite mad by ordinary citizens.

When the journal Historical Materialism was started, I submitted an earlier draft of this paper to the Editors. Two years later, it became clear that they were never going to agree to publish it. Eventually, one of them told me "” quite correctly "” that I hadn't discussed 'the secondary literature'. At this point, I gave up the unequal contest.

Paper by Cyril Smith for Hegel seminar 18th June 1999.

Talk given at the International Socialist Forum on 7 March, 1999.

Vanguard of retrogression: Postmodern Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital by Loren Goldner. Reviewed by Cyril Smith

by Don Cuckson and Cyril Smith

Lenin is one of the very greatest names in the history of revolution, and certainly the most important of the twentieth century. This brief note does not intend to question this, but to re-examine those of his writings which deal with basic questions of philosophy.