Subjects Archives: Socialism

The revolutionary period left more than a founding image. It created institutions, social expectations, and forms of political work that continue to move within the society built upon them.

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

The idea emerged early on—specifically, for example, in the Psychological Strategy Board (PSB), which reported to the National Security Council—that the fight against the world communist movement and the Soviet Union should no longer be waged solely through “hard” anti-communist propaganda, but, as a 1953 PSB paper states, also through “long-term intellectual movements, which will appeal to intellectuals, including scholars and opinion-forming groups.”

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.

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.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

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.

From taxi, bus and IT workers to communities fighting the spread of Data centers, it’s right to rebel against the use and misuse of any new technology by elites. Owen McCormack argues that these campaigns can be part of a more general revolt against capitalism with profound implications for socialists and revolutionaries in the coming years.

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

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.

The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them.

“When the earthquake came,” Raimelis recalled, “we already knew how to work together.”

It is not surprising that the only economies in modern times that have been characterized by full employment have been the Soviet Union and the socialist economies of eastern Europe.

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 conference in Lahore centered on the principal contradictions of our time: world capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism on the one hand, and the forces resisting them on the other. It is rare for seminars like these to have such clarity of purpose.

No amount of money can repair the damage which has been caused to the African people through the transatlantic slave trade, classical colonialism, and today’s neocolonialism. No amount of money can pay for that damage. The essence of reparatory justice is a just reconstruction of the world, an entirely new world.

Factoring the true cost of U.S. capitalism and imperialism requires mapping what historian David Michael Smith terms the “endless holocausts” of U.S. empire.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.