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For those in Ireland, I think Ticktin is one of the most profound and
original Marxist thinkers around.
Jim Monaghan

DUBLIN SOCIALIST FORUM

PUBLIC Meeting; CAPITALISM IN DECLINE

TEACHERS? CLUB

THURSDAY 21ST 730PM

SPEAKER:        PROFESSOR HILLEL TICKTIN


Dear Comrades, The Dublin Socialist Forum is pleased to announce that
Hillel Ticktin has agreed to speak in
Dublin on the theme of his theory of capitalist economic decline. Over the
past three decades Professor Ticktin has arguably been the most original
of Marxist inspired social scientists still working in an academic
environment. His intellectual accomplishments include a unique 1992 study
of Russian society ?The Origins of the Crisis in the USSR: Essays on the
political economy of a disintegrating system?. Before 1992 Professor
Ticktin was virtually the only social scientist to argue that the Soviet
Union was in an advanced state of social decay and to offer serious
arguments pointing to the Soviet system?s inevitable collapse. For two
decades Professor Ticktin was a unique critic of both the western cold war
school of Soviet studies and the communist school of historical
falsification.

Since 1973 Professor Ticktin has been the editor of the socialist journal
?Critique? dedicated to socialist studies of Eastern Europe, the Soviet
Union and philosophical discussions on Marxist method. He has written many
articles and books covering such things as international finance capital,
class and society, the potential for a socialist society, Trotsky, the
Jewish question and South Africa. His books include ?The Politics of Race
Discrimination in South Africa?, ?The Ideas of Leon Trotsky? and with
Bertell Ollman ?Market Socialism: The Debate?. Today Professor Ticktin
acts as Chairperson of ?The Centre for the study of Socialist Theory and
Movements? at Glasgow University. He was born in South Africa and obtained
his Ph.D. from the University of Moscow.

The Dublin Socialist Forum

The aim of the Dublin Socialist Forum is to encourage open and frank
debate covering socialist ideas and strategies. By providing a platform
for individuals and organisations to come together in free and honest
discussion we seek to provide a means to break down the barriers that
prevents honest debate between socialists. We hope to encourage and
rekindle a serious interest both in the theory and practice of socialism
in Ireland by providing a platform for unhindered debate. The forum is
open to all socialists and is democratically organised and elected by
individual sponsors and participants and not controlled by any political
party or grouping.