Because Marxists recognise historical necessity, bourgeois ideologists often accuse them of denying the role of individuals, of great people, of leaders, in history. These accusations are unfounded, for Marxism far from underestimates the role of the individual. Although Marxists maintain… Read More ›
History
Guide For Moral Perspective in a Capitalist Society
The New Red Scare Lately, one cannot help but notice that despite the “end of history” and the total discrediting, debunking, destruction, looting, pillaging and castration of Marxism, anti-communist propaganda is actually on the rise both in the United States… Read More ›
The Waning of Trade Unions: Labor Law and its Subversion
Low Union Representation Trade unions have long been one of the only ways that workers have of advocating for themselves within the confines of capitalist production. Yet, in recent years, the number of those workers who are represented in unions… Read More ›
The Day Socialism Saved the World
The Soviet Red Army Won World War II When people say the Greatest Generation, they usually refer to the parents of the baby-boomers who fought in Europe during World War II. What we rarely hear is the story of their… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part VI of VI: The Chinese Great Leap Forward Glenn Beck ends his series with an attack on the Chinese Revolution. He claims that the Chinese leader Mao Zedong was the greatest mass murderer of all time, even worse than… Read More ›
Celebrate International Workers’ Day 2010!
Today we celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by working people worldwide. This day began in commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, where police fired upon workers striking for an eight-hour-day. Since… Read More ›
Work Hours in the United States
How We Perceive Work & Why In the United States, work is seen through a contradictory lens. It is both the bane of a person’s existence and that which defines them. It is also vital to the American economy that… Read More ›
Review of “Enemy at the Gates”
Personal Reflection: “The Reds” as the Good Guys I was about ten years old when my mother took the family to see Enemy at the Gates (2001). For one, this was the first time in my life that I was… Read More ›
Legalize Industrial Hemp
Legalize Industrial Hemp for American Jobs and Prosperity America is confronted today with a plethora of problems, many of which can be solved by ending a sixty-year-old policy rooted in racism and corporate greed. We are speaking, of course, of… Read More ›
Confederate History Month: The Right’s Whitewashing of a Racist Regime
Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia declared this April as Virginia’s “Confederate History Month.” Virginia is not the first state to practice this. The states of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia all commemorate the Confederate States of America. The… Read More ›
Review: Glenn Beck’s “Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free or Die”
Part V of VI: Castro, Che & Cuba The “Cult of Che” & the Execution of Rojas One of the last parts of Beck’s documentary contains a truly disturbing element far above the mere falsification of history we have… Read More ›
The Nation
The disunity characteristic of feudal society disappears in the course of capitalist development and a single national market is formed as a result of which nationalities turn into nations. “Nations,” wrote Lenin, “are an inevitable product, an inevitable form, in… Read More ›
Rwanda, Zaire & Sudan
“Out of Iraq, Into Darfur”: Humanitarian or Warmongering? The ongoing campaign for intervention in Sudan has resulted in the reduction of a complex political problem to a morality tale populated by villains and victims. Newspaper and television reports are a… Read More ›
The Withering Away of the State
The fact that it is necessary to strengthen and develop the socialist state does not mean that it will exist for ever. As socialist statehood develops, […] it will gradually become communist self-government of the people which will embrace the… Read More ›
A Meeting of Two Liberal Sacred Cows
Obama Meets Theocratic Ex-Dictator On the 18th of February President Obama met with the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the White House. The tradition of meetings between U.S. presidents and the Dalai Lama goes back to George H.W. Bush…. Read More ›
The Red Phoenix 