Religious ideas continue to thrive as a way of coming to terms with alienation and misery. August 10, 2012
What both voluntarism and substitutionism forget is that major social changes are the result of mass mobilizations. August 3, 2012
The way that capitalism organizes production--not industrial production per se--is the cause of environmental destruction. July 27, 2012
Socialists who consider themselves Leninists are often criticized for wanting to create a "vanguard party." July 20, 2012
Socialists and liberals agree that struggles for reform are key, but is curbing the excesses of capitalism enough? July 13, 2012
For most of our history as a species, human societies knew "no soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles [or] kings." June 28, 2012
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
The truth about capitalism is that those in power reserve the right to use violence whenever they consider it necessary. June 15, 2012
Crime is the product of capitalism, an economy based on competition, greed, exploitation and alienation. June 8, 2012
Are the personal choices people make, like whether to drive a car, enough to solve society's problems? June 1, 2012
Under capitalism, scientists devote more time to finding military applications for scientific discoveries than curing cancer. May 25, 2012
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
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