Category: Proletariat

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

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 […]

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 […]

  Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923-September 6, 2015) earned himself an honorable and distinctive place and mention in the Marxist movement and the development of the science of society. In the 1970s Nelson became a rallying point and then a mobilizing force of a distinct post-Khrushchev Marxism-Leninism. His understanding of the social movement was shaped […]

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 […]

WOMEN AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION In the age of robotics, women and children have been reduced to commodities, as never before. Under The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2010 (CAPTA) and the cynically named Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), children are treated as commodities, with states and corporations reaping huge financial bonuses for breaking up […]