There’s much media discussion about the rise of fascism. We all sense it. Feel it. Fear it. Describing the features with superficial analysis is not enough. The following entries written by Darryl “Waistline” Mitchell in a recent edition of Marxist Glossary provide the foundation for deeper and more accurate understanding of what we are dealing […]
Stinking rotten egg smell We stampede out of the mill To escape the burning pain Of sulfur brewing in the molten steel Sundays only No inspectors Fire and brimstone
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, […]
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. 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 […]
Bernie Sanders is on fire, making his last ‘go round’ in life. Man on fire! To be driven by father time himself is wild to watch, and Bernie is in his element. A proletarian consciousness is being shaped in the USA and history has left it to US/a too help frame the new revolutionary vision and […]