In
October 1917, the Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, seized power
under the banner of socialism and set out to build the world’s most
equitable society. Today, capitalism prevails everywhere. Crushing
inequality and poverty is rampant around the globe. So, was the
October Revolution really as significant as it seemed 100 years ago?
We spoke to unrepentant Leninists from a variety of backgrounds and
different parts of the world to find out.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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