The Marxist tradition
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 : Shaun Harkin When activists protest on May 1, they will be connecting with a rich history of class struggle that has much to teach us today.
April 26, 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 : Lee Sustar Many people, including some on the left, associate Marxism with a powerful state, but this is the opposite of Marx's views.
March 23, 2012 : Paul LeBlanc Several socialist authors are behind the "Get Political" campaign, which aims to introduce today's radicals to revolutionary politics.
March 20, 2012 The experience of struggle can help convince people whose consciousness is shifting to adopt a socialist point of view.
March 16, 2012 : Paul LeBlanc A recent book brings Karl Marx to life more vividly than any other with its portraits of his wife Jenny, their children and their comrades.
March 13, 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 : 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.
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