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 […]
Chinook Flight Engineer in Afghanistan “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 1998-999 Kosovo War “If you treat debt as a weapon, […]
Grief (National Poetry Month) Historically There was a time When this month Would flood my feed with poetry This year I see mostly grief Perhaps it’s the echo-chamber algorithm Reflecting my pain back to me Maybe in all my moving, I’ve lost my ties to that community Possibly I’m too stuck on what poetry was […]
London, December 28, 1886 Marx-Engels Correspondence 1886 Engels to Florence Kelley Wischnewetsky Regarding Engels Preface to the American publication of Engels’ History of the Working Class in England. My preface will of course turn entirely on the immense stride made by the American working man in the last ten months, and naturally also touch H.G. […]
In one sense, the concept of organization for this age is pretty simple. The network centered by a consistent press. On the one hand this press is the voice of the organization, conveying its program and mission, and the conclusions of political policy and strategy of the network as it grows and expands. On the […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]