Paul D'Amato 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 If war is a product of human culture and history, rather than the result of some immutable nature, then it can be changed or done away with.
September 29, 2011 What Marx called the "ruling ideas of society" are widely disseminated in order to obscure the real workings of the system.
September 16, 2011 Any honest look at the life of the Russian revolutionary Lenin quickly puts to rest the idea that he wanted an elite to seize power and impose socialism.
June 2, 2011 In every U.S. military intervention, the justifications concocted for public consumption differ substantially from the U.S. government's real aims.
April 5, 2011 Egypt's revolution opens the door for democracy and human liberation throughout the region--but especially for Palestine.
February 16, 2011 As Rosa Luxemburg wrote, bourgeois justice is "like a net, which allowed the voracious sharks to escape, while the little sardines were caught."
August 5, 2010 Contrary to what the media says, a natural disaster can reveal the capacity human beings have to reorder our lives in new, cooperative ways.
June 4, 2010 Contrary to those who try to portray socialists as "interlopers" in movements, our outlook is what makes us among their most committed fighters.
May 7, 2010 The practice of cloaking military invasions in idealistic garb has a long history--to hide the real aims of conquest, colonization and exploitation.
February 23, 2010 A rebellion of slaves in the ancient world still thrills us today with its size--and the way it humbled the greatest empire of its day.
January 15, 2010 Non-human animals don't possess the attributes that would allow them to engage in activities we associate with "liberation" and "rights."
October 26, 2009 Capitalism depends for its survival on divisions created in the working class, so the struggle for a new society must challenge those divisions.
October 9, 2009 Marxists reject the idea that history is made by charismatic "great men." But that doesn't mean they view individuals as cogs in the machine.
September 11, 2009
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