MarXXIsts

MarXXIsts is an online platform for 21st century Marxist thinkers and activists to publish, study, analyse and critique each other's theoretical works. In other words, a slightly more robust marxists.org for the work of Marxists who are still alive and are actively engaging with criticism and analysis of their own work.

Building

Without Docker

To build this project:

1. Ensure that PostgreSQL is installed on your local machine and that its binaries are in your path
2. Ensure that Pandoc is installed on your local machine
3. Create a PostgreSQL database for the application
4. Create a config.cfg file with a line following this template: SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI = "postgresql://username:password@localhost:5432/db_name"
5. Add a line to your config.cfg file following this template: SECRET_KEY = "key-or-phrase-of-your-choice"
6. pip install -r requirements.txt
7. flask db upgrade
8. flask run
9. Check out http://localhost:5000 in your browser

With Docker

1. make run to run
2. Check out http://localhost:5000 in your browser
3. make stop to stop
4. make build to build an image