“We need to create sober, patient people, who do not despair in the face of the worst horror and who do not get excited about every little thing. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”
Happy birthday to the author of these lines, Antonio Gramsci!
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
Happy birthday to civil rights campaigner and communist, Angela Davis!
On this day in 1917, working-class women in Petrograd launched a riot that began the Russian Revolution. The day has been celebrated as #InternationalWomensDay ever since. Wishing all of our comrades a joyful and successful #IWD2023! ✊🚩🌹
Stuart Hall, born on this day in 1932, is widely regarded as the founding father of cultural studies. He was a fierce advocate of a Marxism “without guarantees” and one of the first to identify and critically interrogate the rise of neoliberal capitalism.
Che Guevara was born #OnThisDay in 1928. An icon of the Cuban Revolution, the Argentinian Marxist is one of the most influential revolutionaries of the 20th century.
Happy Birthday, Rosa Luxemburg!
Our foundation’s namesake was a radical, a rabble-rouser and a revolutionary. As one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, her calls for freedom, socialism and democracy sparked wide controversy.
On this day 100 years ago, Patrice Lumumba was born. A leader of Congo’s independence movement and its first Prime Minister, he was arrested, tortured, and finally murdered in January 1961 — just months after his country’s liberation from Belgian colonial rule.
“Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter. But, for man, the root is man himself.”
Happy birthday, Karl Marx!
