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Marxist Communism for Today's World |
By Sherwin Lu 2018-05-05
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birthday. And this year also sees the 170th anniversary of the publication of The Communist Manifesto. Currently, with the world communist movement in its serious setback while the global capitalist system heading fast towards its historical doom of a final breakdown, Marxist communism is undergoing a fresh rebirth. To carry forward Marx’s noble cause, the world’s believers in communism need to look back into history and draw profound lessons ... |
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Chaco Canyon, Chaco Earth |
By CHRIS HEDGES 2018-05-04
Collapse is “a recurrent feature of human societies.” Complex societies create more sophisticated mechanisms to extract depleted resources, evidenced in our own time by the decision of the Trump administration to open up the lands around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to fracking. In the end, the technologies and organization that make the rise of complex societies possible become the mechanisms that destroy them.... |
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Capitalism’s Betrayal Of The Working Class Could Be Its Undoing |
By Richard D. Wolff 2018-05-01
The New Legalist editor: Capitalism has always been maintained through capital's domination over labor from the very start, never a patron of the working class. Hence, "betrayal" is not the proper word, though this article makes good sense. |
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“How Come?” Questions |
By ANDREW LEVINE 2018-04-30
There are many reasons why American politics often seems more baffling than the politics of other so-called democracies. |
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