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Women

Theorizing women’s oppression

Marx’s and Engels’s articulations of women’s oppression often contain contradictory components—in some respects fundamentally challenging the gender status quo while in other respects merely reflecting it.

Environment

Review: The robbery of nature

A truly perverse element of capitalism is that it feeds on scarcity, thus planetary destruction can open up new markets, monetising products which were once freely available in abundance.

History

Mariátegui and Latin American Marxism

To the extent that Mariátegui is known in the socialist movement, he is recognized for applying Marxist analysis to the concrete reality of Perú, in specific, and, by extension, to the concrete reality of Latin America in general.

Marxist Education

Marxism, unions, and class struggle

It is no coincidence that levels of class inequality today mirror those of the laissez faire capitalism of Gilded Era of the late nineteenth century, when robber barons enriched themselves by fighting tooth-and-nail against every attempt by workers to organize into unions.

Analysis Politics United States

Trump on the Home Stretch

Three weeks before the election, the chatter of the 24-hour news cycle confuses more than it explains. This article will argue that underneath the chatter and against a backdrop of a marked decline in working class living standards and resurgence of COVID-19, Trump and his advisors have formulated an overall […]

Analysis Politics United States

Does the U.S. face a crisis of democracy?

It’s common today to hear pundits declare that the U.S. is facing an “unprecedented” crisis of democracy.             Liberals at the MSNBC network have banged on for years about how “Russian interference” in the 2016 and 2020 presidential election poses an existential threat to U.S. democracy and sovereignty.             At […]

Analysis Europe World

Goodnight Golden Dawn

Greek fascists found guilty while the people flood the streets October 7, 2020 is a day that will go down in history. The judges declared that the neo-nazi group of Golden Dawn is a criminal organization, in what has been described as one of the most important trials against a […]