The Marxist tradition
: Jason Netek Some revolutionaries, frustrated with the slow pace of change, believe a few dedicated individuals can awaken the masses with daring actions.
February 21, 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 : Aaron Petkov The Marxist tradition is often wrongly accused of ignoring forms of oppression that exist outside of economic relations.
January 12, 2012 : Duncan Hallas Capitalists' profits come from the unpaid labor of workers--which is why socialists say that capitalism is organized theft.
January 6, 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 : Ahmed Shawki A leading member of ISO discusses what kind of organization socialists need to be effective in the fight against the system.
December 2, 2011 Throughout history, class struggle has been essentially been a conflict over control of what the exploited classes produced.
November 11, 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 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 : Gary Lapon The term "exploitation" conjures images of sweatshops, but Marxists have a broader understanding that applies to the whole working class.
September 28, 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 : Lee Sustar When mainstream economists start citing capitalism's greatest critic, you know the crisis of the free market is severe.
September 13, 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 As a biographer wrote, "Not since Jesus Christ has an obscure pauper inspired such global devotion--or been so calamitously misinterpreted."
May 5, 2011 : Paul D'Amato The great Sioux leader Sitting Bull had a dim view of the economic and social system brought by Europe to America.
April 29, 2011 While other philosophers took refuge in abstraction, Marx argued that philosophy alone was powerless to change the world.
March 29, 2011 : Paul LeBlanc A new collection of the letters of Polish socialist Rosa Luxemburg provides important insights into the life of the renowned writer, theoretician and organizer.
March 23, 2011 As editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, Marx began to understand the power of wealth, and to develop a sympathy with the poor and oppressed.
March 9, 2011 Reading a little Hegel can provide a richer appreciation for how Karl Marx developed his own revolutionary theories.
February 23, 2011 A new SocialistWorker.org series--aimed at providing a guide to reading the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels--gets underway.
February 8, 2011 : Duncan Hallas Karl Marx is well known for his analysis of capitalism and how it operates--but he should also be remembered for his determination to change it.
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