Online texts of Karl Korsch’s ‘Marxism and the Present Task of the Proletarian Class Struggle’ and ‘The Masses and the Vanguard’ by Paul Mattick are linked below.

Living Marxism. Vol. 4 No. 4. August, 1938.

Contents: Organizations of the Unemployed (to be continued), by Paul Mattick,The Masses and the Vanguard by Paul Mattick, Communist Production and Distribution, Marxism and the Present Task of the Proletarian Class Struggle by Karl Korsch, Southern Negroes, Book Reviews: Eagle Forgotten. The Life of John Peter Altgeld reviewed by Harry Barnard

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://files.libcom.org/files/ICC%20Vol%204%20No%204.pdf