Paul D'Amato In a society based on a massive concentration of wealth, one billionaire has far more clout than millions of poor people.
May 18, 2012 Unless workers organize as an independent force to fight for their aims, the struggle for change can only go so far.
May 4, 2012 For socialists, democracy exists only in name unless it consists of genuine popular control from below.
April 27, 2012 Capitalist competition may act to spur increased production, but it does so at an enormous cost--and enormous waste.
April 20, 2012 Real change for working-class people won't come without mass struggles like the labor rebellions of the 1930s.
April 13, 2012 Capitalism has two different moralities--one of them for the rulers and one that is imposed on those who are ruled.
April 6, 2012 One fundamental difference between Marxists and anarchists is their different approaches to the question of authority.
March 30, 2012 The tiny minority that rule over society would have a hard time staying in power if it weren't for false consciousness.
March 23, 2012 The experience of struggle can help convince people whose consciousness is shifting to adopt a socialist point of view.
March 16, 2012 Workers produce enough to cover the cost of their wages in just part of the working day. The rest goes to the boss.
March 9, 2012 Karl Marx explained how what we pay for goods is ultimately determined by the amount of labor time to produce them.
March 2, 2012 The Russian revolutionary Lenin is perhaps the most misunderstood, maligned and lied-about figure in history.
February 17, 2012 The belief that Russia was socialist came from the idea that socialism equals state ownership of property. That isn't socialism.
February 10, 2012 Union struggles are more than a means to win a wage increase or defend working conditions--they're training grounds.
February 3, 2012 The threat--and use--of violence, has always been a crucial way in which states promote the economic interests of their rulers.
January 27, 2012 History provides several examples that show how, even in the face of immense repression, workers' revolution is possible.
January 20, 2012 To Marxists, the phenomenon of globalization isn't a policy but a dynamic that is built into the very nature of capitalism.
January 13, 2012 The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class, Marx and Engels wrote in the Communist Manifesto.
December 9, 2011 We're taught that social change is something that happens gradually--but this flies in the face of the historical record.
December 2, 2011 Throughout history, class struggle has been essentially been a conflict over control of what the exploited classes produced.
November 11, 2011 In some Occupy encampments, the question has been raised whether we should use the term "occupy" at all.
November 7, 2011 Do human beings have a built-in nature, shaped genetically by their physical attributes, which programs their behavior?
November 4, 2011 Marx's materialist philosophy was rooted in the idea that the world around us shapes and limits our possibilities.
October 28, 2011 For a movement or struggle, hoping for general agreement after a thorough discussion is very different from requiring it.
October 10, 2011 Visions of socialism and ideas about how to achieve it are as old as class society--but Marxists have very distinctive answers.
September 30, 2011
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