Marxists’ analysis of all phenomena, as Engels said, is from the point of view of its: constant motion, change, transformation, development; and the internal connection that makes a continuous whole of all this movement and development. We see the Communist League as an integral part and the result of the class struggle of the international […]
Proponents of different forms of socialism advocated for different combinations of public and private ownership of land, housing, public education, health care, primary transportation and socially necessary means of production. During the early stages of industrialism, notions of socialism meant calls to end poverty and regulate private wealth. Socialism was an ideology that sought […]
Communism and Marxism are different. Communism is a striving and goal for society. Marxism is a social science which describes why society transitions from one mode of production to the next. Marxism is also a philosophy based on materialism and dialectics. Nor are communism and socialism the same. The socialist countries of the 20th century […]
The Communist International, abbreviated as Comintern and also known as the Third International, was founded March 1919 in Moscow. The Comintern was formed on the basis of the 1917 Great October Socialist Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, in the environment of emergence of US financial-industrial imperialism (monopoly capitalism) on the […]
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 […]
Institute for the Study of the Science of Society “While the people were very much alive, I saw a dead philosophy – Cold War anti-communism and neo-imperialism – walking the corridors of the Pentagon.” US Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski (retired) speaking about the prevailing mood and decision-making process at the Pentagon, 2004. This […]
The law of value is an objective law of commodity production and is the fundamental regulating law of capitalist commodity production. It states that the value of a commodity is determined by the amount of socially necessary labor time in its production. Under capitalism where anarchy of production and competition between laborers for wages and […]
The US was the dominant imperialist force in the post World War II era. It managed the transition from the direct colonies – literally owned and controlled by England, France and Germany – to the neo-colonies, where the newly independent nations entered the world economy. Then began the transition to the global capitalist economy that […]
The value of labor-power is determined by the cost to maintain workers and enable them to labor and to reproduce the next generation. The value of labor-power is determined, as in the case of every other commodity, by the labor-time necessary for the production, and consequently also the reproduction, of this special article. So far […]
In political economy value is the amount of socially necessary labor time in commodities. A commodity is a product made to be exchanged, rather than consumed by the producer. The production of objects for exchange is the characteristic feature of commodity economy. Human beings, rather than machines, are the source and determinant of value in […]