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 […]
Women Potters Tending Fire By proletariat, [is meant] the class of modern wage laborers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labor-power in order to live. [Engels, 1888 English edition](Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto, 1848.) http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its […]
Marxist Glossary grew out of the organizing for the 2010 Detroit Social Forum, followed by Occupy in 2011, after which there was an increased demand for Marxist education. In my weekly unit meeting we discussed putting together some educational material and wrote a list of 10 words on the back of an envelope. That list […]
The day after the women’s march TV pundits were asking questions like: How can the women’s march be made into a movement? Duh. It IS part of a movement, one which has been visible since at least 2010. Dec. 7, 2010, Wikileaks released a group of cables, and this release included cables about the extreme […]
The social position of women and the proposed resolution to their historic inequality is called the woman question by the Marxist movement. The role of women in society, as is the case with all classes, exploited and oppressed groups, is first and foremost an expression of inequality rooted in private property relations. Before the rise […]