The Karl Marx Institute of Socialist Thought was born to vindicate, propagate and recreate Marxist thought. Promoted by the PTS, it is open to investigators, teachers, intellectuals and other organizations of the left that agree with this aim.

It is an unprecedented initiative in the field of the left, which we are making at a moment in which the working-class in our country and the world is experiencing a slow, but sustained process of reconstitution, leaving behind the stage of retreat from the decade of the nineties, when the big “neo-liberal” wave produced big defeats for the worlds workers and peoples.

It is a contribution to putting Marxism and the perspective of socialist revolution on the offensive, after they were discredited by identifying them falsely with so-called real socialism. This false historical assessment was amplified by the big mass media and the intellectuals of the system, who from self-interest continue to insist on the death of socialism. With the development of the imperialist turn to war, and its results, hunger, increased exploitation and social inequality, we have seen that the new truths of harmonious development of the market and global democracy that the merchants of bourgeois ideology were selling, proved by themselves their own triviality and inconsistency. Truths maintained not only by the apologists of “neo-liberalism”, but also by those who consider the socialist horizon closed and proclaim the impossibility of going beyond “capitalism with a human face”. Our aim is to rebel against this ideological fate of resignation, challenging those for whom Marxism is no more than an obsolete thought from a “museum”.

Against this background, the task of vindicating the theoretical superiority of Marxism and the struggle for socialism and putting them in the foreground acquires an urgency that increases as history (that apologists for capitalism had given up for dead) becomes more turbulent.

The Karl Marx Institute of Socialist Thought wants to contribut to the development of revolutionary Marxist intellectuals, organically linked to the working class. We are seeking to expose and surpass the dominant capitulation to the “possible” by local intellectuals, who have become social liberals or nationalistic populists and long ago abandoned any perspective of revolutionary transformation, in order to prop up the institutions and parties of the existing order theoretically and politically, by aligning themselves with different governments in turn.

The foundation of the IPS does not begin at zero, but is a new step in the ideological task that we have carried forward for years, inside and outside the universities, against official thought, with the creation of Marxist professorships and the publication of books and magazines.

This new project has the support and participation of its Advisory Council and various seminars and workshops with independent teachers and intellectuals who share the general aims of the IPS.