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• US Strategy in Latin America was Wrong

  By The Red Phoenix on May 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Three years ago I wrote an article arguing that the political changes sweeping across Latin America were epoch-making and probably irreversible, and that they would fundamentally alter the relationship between the region and the United States. Some of the most… Read More ›

• The Deception of Change

  By The Red Phoenix on May 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  With simple slogans such as “Hope” and “Change,” Barack Obama assumed power in January. His promises gave hope to some progressives that the country would enter a new age of peaceful cooperation with other nations and that our people would… Read More ›

• Morality in Socialist Society

  By The Red Phoenix on April 11, 2009 • ( 0 )

    The Essence of Morality and Its Place in Social Life Morality or ethics is the aggregate of standards or rules of behaviour in society, reflecting people’s ideas of justice and injustice, good and evil, honour and dishonour, etc. In… Read More ›

• The New Cigarette Law

  By The Red Phoenix on February 24, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  This year I expect Democratic state governors to try and plug budget holes by raising the cigarette tax. Some Republicans will do this as well, but that isn’t the point. The point is: how do Democrats do this and expect… Read More ›

• Thoughts on Class Struggle

  By The Red Phoenix on February 10, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Is the Class Struggle Dead? Well, that’s certainly what I’ve been told many times, by both pro-bourgeois and self-professed “socialist” people. I think any Marxist organization must deal with this, and the result will either be that a truly revolutionary… Read More ›

• Update on Gaza War Crimes: Final Body Count

  By The Red Phoenix on January 22, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Palestinians killed: 1,417 Wounded: 5,303 Israeli deaths: 13 Israeli troops sent into Gaza: 176, 500 Over 4000 homes destroyed, $2 billion worth of damage, 51,000 residents displaced, 400,000 Palestinians left without running water. The terrorist state of Israel has shown… Read More ›

• The Dictatorship of the Proletariat

  By The Red Phoenix on January 15, 2009 • ( 0 )

  The proletariat has the great historical mission of destroying capitalism and building a classless communist society. Yet this new society does not grow out of capitalism directly and at once. Between capitalism and communism “lies the period of the revolutionary… Read More ›

• Israel’s New Holocaust

  By The Red Phoenix on January 10, 2009 • ( 0 )

  

  Attack on “Hamas?” Don’t Make Me Laugh! It seems at this point, the international community would defend Israel’s imperialist ethnic cleansing even if the IDF started using gas chambers. “225 Killed as Israel Rains Fire on Hamas,” the Jerusalem Post… Read More ›

• Welfare Queens

  By The Red Phoenix on January 5, 2009 • ( 0 )

  If there’s anything that we can all agree on, it’s our hatred of these fools leeching off the government and the labor of the working class. The government has already given them over a trillion dollars, and their still coming… Read More ›

• The Rise of Historical Materialism II

  By The Red Phoenix on December 24, 2008 • ( 0 )

  

  The subject matter of historical materialism is the study of society and the laws of its development. These laws are as objective, i.e., independent of man’s consciousness, as the laws of nature’s development. Like the laws of nature, they are… Read More ›

• The Rise of Historical Materialism I

  By The Red Phoenix on December 17, 2008 • ( 0 )

  

  Marx and Engels revealed the dialectical-materialist character of development not only of nature but also of society, creating thereby the only scientific theory of social development: historical materialism.We shall now explain what historical materialism is. First of all, let us… Read More ›

• The Tasks Before Us

  By The Red Phoenix on December 10, 2008 • ( 0 )

  

  This year of 2008, the second half, witnessed the beginning of the activities of the American Party of Labor. At the present time, the most urgent business to be attended to is that of the practice of the APL. I… Read More ›

• Labor Theory of Value, a Simple Explanation

  By The Red Phoenix on December 9, 2008 • ( 0 )

  We will start this explanation of the labor theory of value with an analogy from outside the sphere of economics. A teenage boy is arguing with his mother about borrowing the car. A shrink watches their interaction and he doesn’t… Read More ›

• Marxist-Leninist Ideology

  By The Red Phoenix on December 8, 2008 • ( 0 )

  

  Marxist-Leninist ideology radically differs from all the preceding ideologies both in terms of class content, and the aims and tasks which it pursues. The first of these distinctions is that, unlike all the preceding ideologies, it serves the working class… Read More ›