Connolly's Marxism part two
Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly James Connolly had a very narrow idea of the Marxism he expounded. Whereas Marxists such as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Ulianov (Lenin) and others of that time thought that there were three fronts in the class struggle, the political, economic and ideological (the battle of ideas), Connolly thought and militantly asserted that there were only two fronts, the economic (trade-union) and political. He believed in fighting for the working-class side in the trade-union and political fronts of the class struggle, and...