Paul D'Amato

  • The sigh of the oppressed

    Religious ideas continue to thrive as a way of coming to terms with alienation and misery. August 10, 2012

  • A committed few aren't enough

    What both voluntarism and substitutionism forget is that major social changes are the result of mass mobilizations. August 3, 2012

  • Protecting the environment

    The way that capitalism organizes production--not industrial production per se--is the cause of environmental destruction. July 27, 2012

  • What is a vanguard party?

    Socialists who consider themselves Leninists are often criticized for wanting to create a "vanguard party." July 20, 2012

  • Is reforming capitalism enough?

    Socialists and liberals agree that struggles for reform are key, but is curbing the excesses of capitalism enough? July 13, 2012

  • A society divided into classes

    For most of our history as a species, human societies knew "no soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles [or] kings." June 28, 2012

  • Organizing for the battles ahead

    Revolutionaries take part in the day-to-day struggles of the working class, even when there is no revolution in the offing. June 22, 2012

  • A system built on violence

    The truth about capitalism is that those in power reserve the right to use violence whenever they consider it necessary. June 15, 2012

  • Getting to the roots of crime

    Crime is the product of capitalism, an economy based on competition, greed, exploitation and alienation. June 8, 2012

  • Is "living simply" the answer?

    Are the personal choices people make, like whether to drive a car, enough to solve society's problems? June 1, 2012

  • Destruction caused by profit

    Under capitalism, scientists devote more time to finding military applications for scientific discoveries than curing cancer. May 25, 2012

  • The best democracy money can buy

    In a society based on a massive concentration of wealth, one billionaire has far more clout than millions of poor people. May 18, 2012

  • Why workers must take the lead

    Unless workers organize as an independent force to fight for their aims, the struggle for change can only go so far. May 4, 2012

  • Is our society really democratic?

    For socialists, democracy exists only in name unless it consists of genuine popular control from below. April 27, 2012

  • Is the free market efficient?

    Capitalist competition may act to spur increased production, but it does so at an enormous cost--and enormous waste. April 20, 2012

  • "Without struggle, there is no progress"

    Real change for working-class people won't come without mass struggles like the labor rebellions of the 1930s. April 13, 2012

  • Do the ends justify the means?

    Capitalism has two different moralities--one of them for the rulers and one that is imposed on those who are ruled. April 6, 2012

  • Does all power corrupt?

    One fundamental difference between Marxists and anarchists is their different approaches to the question of authority. March 30, 2012

  • How do our rulers stay in power?

    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

  • Socialists and the united front

    The experience of struggle can help convince people whose consciousness is shifting to adopt a socialist point of view. March 16, 2012

  • How the bosses profit from our labor

    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

  • Why do shoes cost more than socks?

    Karl Marx explained how what we pay for goods is ultimately determined by the amount of labor time to produce them. March 2, 2012

  • Behind the slander and lies about Lenin

    The Russian revolutionary Lenin is perhaps the most misunderstood, maligned and lied-about figure in history. February 17, 2012

  • What happened to the Russian Revolution?

    The belief that Russia was socialist came from the idea that socialism equals state ownership of property. That isn't socialism. February 10, 2012

  • Socialists and trade unions

    Union struggles are more than a means to win a wage increase or defend working conditions--they're training grounds. February 3, 2012

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