Subjects Archives: Capitalism

A closer look at costs and benefits.

As the central bankers of the world met at Jackson Hole, Wyoming for their annual get together to discuss issues affecting the world financial sector and monetary policy, U.S. statistics for corporate profits for the second quarter of 2026 were released.

The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

The signs of decay and decrepitude of a dying capitalism are all too evident at present.

No contract? No Starbucks coffee at the union hall.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

Media outlets often claim Americans are wealthier than Europeans, but it’s not true. Average wealth looks high, but is skewed by extreme inequality. U.S. median wealth is quite low. This is the real data.

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality.

If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

The dollar may appear to be a neutral currency, yet it is in fact a form of imperial power, disciplining economies, financing war, and forcing the Global South to fund its own subordination.

“This heatwave is a dress rehearsal… they are getting more frequent, stronger and lasting longer. Every summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.”