““At one pole, there stands the most enormous machinery of state terrorism and international intimidation and blackmail. This camp includes the American government and ruling elite, the only force, which has used nuclear bombs against people, reducing hundreds of thousands of innocent and unsuspecting people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki into ashes within seconds. A...
… There have been mass strikes in Greece, Italy, France, Belgium and Britain, the occupations of the squares in Spain, student protests right across Europe, and the Occupy movement in the US. But while these struggles are an important beginning, they are going to have to go a lot further if we are going...
García Linera described Bolivia’s MAS (Movement toward Socialism) administration as a “government of social movements”. Nevertheless, he recognised that in the past three years “tensions” have arisen between the government and social movements, between the need for industrialisation and for protecting the environment, and between collective social needs and particular corporatist or sectoral interests....
… Marx communism was not to be the goal for ethical reasons; rather, Marx viewed the transition from capitalism to socialism as being justified on historical grounds — with full communism being the end of humanity’s historical progression leading into history proper. … For Marx, the crux of capitalism’s doom is a concept known...
The truth is that Lenin dedicated his life to one thing and one thing only–the establishment of a society free from all forms of oppression. And to achieve this, he focused his attention on building an organization of revolutionaries–primarily of workers–capable of achieving that goal. Lenin’s conception of revolutionary organization has been distorted beyond...
A Florida Senate committee has followed the advice of a restaurant association and passed a bill that would cut the minimum wage for tipped workers by more than half. The bill, SB 2106, would slash the current Florida tipped minimum wage of of $4.65 an hour to the federal standard of of $2.13 an...
… Together with David Blood, senior partner of ‘green’ fund firm Generation Investment Management, the environmental activist has crafted a blueprint for “sustainable capitalism” he wants the financial industry to adopt to support lasting economic growth. “While we believe that capitalism is fundamentally superior to any other system for organising economic activity, it is...
“Violence and destruction in Greece that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly because people have had their democratic rights taken from them. What else can they do? If I was a Greek citizen I would have been out there joining those protests. I would be out there trying to bring down this...
… The roots of the epidemic, scientists say, appear to lie in the grueling nature of the work performed by its victims, including construction workers, miners and others who labor hour after hour without enough water in blazing temperatures, pushing their bodies through repeated bouts of extreme dehydration and heat stress for years on...
From The Downfall and Future of Socialism 1. Communists distinguish themselves from other supporters of socialism in that their conceptions of the future social order and the path leading to it are based upon a theory of history,historical materialism, the essence of which was worked out by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. The theoretical content...
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