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
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
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
There's a misconception that Marxists believe history follows a predetermined course as a result of economic laws, which human beings can't affect. August 28, 2009
