Socialism is a big topic today in the United States, now that people are increasingly suffering under a rapacious and predatory capitalism. People often want to know how socialism worked in the Soviet Union. Below is a general description. How was working class political power structured in the Soviet Union? The Soviets understood that it […]
The bourgeois period of history has to create the material basis of the new world . . . . in the same way as geological revolutions have created the surface of the earth. When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch, the market of the world and the modern […]
Fascism Fascism in power is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary, most nationalist, misogynist, genocidal, imperialist, and militarist elements of the capitalist class. Fascism is the power of 1%, those who dominate the global financial institutions and control our means of survival. It is the organization of terrorist vengeance against the working class, […]
Marx. Letter to Annenkov Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. Without slavery there would be no cotton, without cotton there would be no modern industry. It is slavery which has given value to the colonies, it is the colonies which have created world […]
What is genuine is proved in the fire, what is false we shall not miss in our ranks. The opponents must grant us that youth has never before flocked to our colours in such numbers, … in the end, one will be found among us who will prove that the sword of enthusiasm is […]
History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) On October 25 (November 7) the Bolsheviks issued a manifesto “To the Citizens of Russia” announcing that the bourgeois Provisional Government had been deposed and that state power had passed into the hands of the Soviets. The Provisional Government had taken refuge in the Winter […]
Colonialism: Derived from the Latin word colere, “to inhabit,” colonialism describes the domination of land and subjugation of peoples brought into the property relations and social order of the colonizers. Colonialism appeared thousands of year ago with the rise of private property and the slave mode of production. The colonial form of development continued under […]
The US was the dominant imperialist force in the post World War II era. It managed the transition from the direct colonies – literally owned and controlled by England, France and Germany – to the neo-colonies, where the newly independent nations entered the world economy. Then began the transition to the global capitalist economy that […]
Private property is private ownership of socially necessary means of production, the products of labor and all the things that dominate the productive life of the individual and classes. Private property is a social power based on the property rights, which ultimately determine the productive relations of society. Property as an economic category is always […]
Chinook Flight Engineer in Afghanistan “War as cognitively known to most non-combatants, war as battle in a field between men and machinery, war as a massive deciding event in a dispute in international affairs: such war no longer exists.” Sir Rupert Smith, Deputy Commander of NATO during the 1998-999 Kosovo War “If you treat debt as a weapon, […]