Chloe Rafferty
Is revolution inevitable? Is socialism a foregone conclusion? Chloe Rafferty discusses historical materialism, how one way of ordering society and production gives way to the next, and how Marxism sees the masses of ordinary people not as a passive object of history, but its active subject. As Trotsky says, ‘The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.’