Category: Globalization

As the Holiday Season unfolds, and as Americans count their blessings, the recent Californiawildfires coincide with the arrival at the state’s border with Mexico of the Central American Refugee Caravan. How the government intends to deal with both wildfire refugees and the Caravan are strikingly similar. America now has one more selfie to document the […]

“The dispossessed of this nation—the poor—…live in a cruelly unjust society. They must organize a revolution against that injustice, not against the lives of the persons who are their fellow citizens, but against the structures through which a society is refusing to take the means which have been called for, and which are at hand, […]

MARS in association with Red Planet Publishers is publishing a series of pamphlets to bring the science of Marxism to the intellectuals and political activists leading the fight to free humanity from the chains of capitalism. Our first pamphlet The Essential Frederick Engels is available in full on our Pamphlets page. We are posting here […]

The fundamental law of revolution, which has been confirmed by all revolutions and especially by all three Russian revolutions in the twentieth century, is as follows: for a revolution to take place it is not enough for the exploited and oppressed masses to realise the impossibility of living in the old way, and demand changes; […]

Nelson Peery’s legacy matters.  Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923-September 6, 2015) earned himself an honorable place in the history of the US communist movement. He was an authentic propagandist of Marxism – the science of society. He helped a generation of revolutionaries develop a different understanding of the science of society. As a revolutionary with an extraordinarily […]

“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 Kosovo War When robots are cheaper than workers in production, then drones […]

Political Crisis Now Stalks the US You know something is weird when we are supposed to cheer on the FBI in its battle with Donald Trump. Some people even claim that the FBI is now leading the so-called “Resistance”! This craziness is one sign of the political crisis that is rising in the United States […]

On Friday, December 1, the Senate passed its version of the Republican tax bill. The same day the Mueller investigation into alleged Russian influence in the election indicted former director, General Michael Flynn on one single count of illegally operating as an agent of a foreign power. What’s the significance, if any, between this coincidence […]

Slavery is the legal fiction that a person is property. Corporate personhood is the legal fiction that property is a person – David Korten Southern ownership of human beings as private property has informed the most extreme legal vision of property in the world. This article discusses the following two books: Ned and Constance Sublette. […]