Contains the first appearance of Karl Korsch’s “Lenin as Philosopher” looking at his ‘Marxism and Empirio-Criticism’ (linked below).

Living Marxism Vol. 4 No. 5. November, 1938.

Contents: The World War in the Making, Lenin’s Philosophy (Remarks on Lenin’s Book Materialism and Empirio-Ctiticism) by l.h. (Karl Korsch), General Remarks on the Question of Organization by J. Harper (Anton Pannekoek), A “Marxian” Approach to the Jewish Question, The Workers’ Alliance.

Living Marxism was the successor to The International Council Correspondence. The International Council Correspondence was a left/council communist magazine published in Chicago by the United Workers Party, a split from the Proletarian Party. Published monthly from 1934 to 1938 and edited by Paul Mattick, in 1938, it changed its name to Living Marxism and again to New Essays in 1942. Karl Korsch, Anton Pannekoek, Max Nomad, Daniel Guérin, Otto Rühle, Dwight Macdonald and Victor Serge also were contributors.

PDF of full issue: https://libcom.org/files/ICC%20Vol%204%20No%205.pdf