We stomp through deep soft snow Clear white unblemished sparkling in the sun untouched by any form of life A vast field sloping toward dark green trees in the mountains of Poland We are searching for wolves Hunting for wolf tracks In four days No wolves sighted No wolf tracks found Two days later I […]
“Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away when scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory […]
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 […]
At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations […]
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; […]
It was precisely Marx who had first discovered the great law of motion of history, the law according to which all historical struggles, whether they proceed in the political, religious, philosophical or some other ideological domain, are in fact only the more or less clear expression of struggles of social classes, and that the existence […]
In the United States, Police, Sheriffs and other “officers of the law” kill three people a day, every day, on average. With Ferguson, people began to address the idea of “state-sanctioned murder.” These young leaders are principally from a generation that was born in 1980 or later. They represent the motion of a new class […]
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 […]
In a major political struggle in California the interests of women and ethnic minorities were placed in opposition to each other. A lenient judge was recalled and will be replaced with a prosecutor. What happened? To understand this, you must understand the problem of mass incarceration and how it works in court. Reading Michele Alexander’s […]