history
Why Socialism?
Albert Einstein This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Editor’s note: For compelling background on the FBI’s 22-year investigation of Albert…
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The Origins of Modern Socialism
The specter of socialism is again haunting the minds of the corporate elite, from the Americas to Europe and beyond. This, after decades of pro-capitalist campaigning from the…
Politics
Anarchism & Marxism: Their Similarities & Differences
Mark Vorpahl For Anarchists, classes exist because of the state. Without the state, society would by definition be classless. Therefore, Anarchists main aim is to liquidate the state.…
Politics
Wage Slavery in the American Auto Industry: Obama’s Shame
Brad Forrest In an ideal world, we’d like all our plants to run around the clock, 365 days a year Ford’s VP of North American manufacturing The American…
history
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx
Friederich Engels Highgate Cemetery, London, March 17, 1883 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think.…
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What is the Permanent Revolution?
Leon Trotsky The socialist revolution begins on the national arena, it unfolds on the international arena, and is completed on the world arena. Thus, the socialist revolution becomes…
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Ninety Years of the Communist Manifesto
Leon Trotsky The Paris Commune proved that the proletariat, without having a tempered revolutionary party at its head, cannot wrest power from the bourgeoisie. Meanwhile, the prolonged period…
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Liberalism, Ultraleftism or Mass Action
Peter Camejo An excerpt…….We’re not interested in moving 20 or 200 or several hundred community organizers to engage in some sort of civil disobedience, window trashing, or whatever.…
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Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Friederich Engels From that time forward, Socialism was no longer an accidental discovery of this or that ingenious brain, but the necessary outcome of the struggle between two…
history
The Principles of Communism
Friederich Engels Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. Introduction by Workers Action Frederick Engels’ “Principles of Communism” was the basis for…