Commentary/Analysis

Communism

Communism Today: Distribution According to Need What is communism? What is socialism? Americans today are increasingly asking themselves these questions as they seek answers to the poverty and violence of daily life in a capitalist economy. Is it true that there is simply no alternative to the mind-numbing destruction and waste of modern capitalism? Do […]

The Colonial Shape of History – Darryl Waistline Mitchell

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 – Cynthia Cuza

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 and Engels – Communism

Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. Marx, Private Property and Communism (1844) Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement […]

Marx on Slavery

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 […]

Youth on Fire – Engels

  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 […]