One of the more disturbing trends I and many others have noted during this rise of radical right-wing extremism in the US is the popularization of the ideology of Ayn Rand. Surely some of the readers have noticed the people… Read More ›
Economy
Review of “Capitalism: A Love Story”
First of all, I will give Moore credit for making certain ideas mainstream (what other remotely progressive or even politically challenging material are you going to see at a multiplex cinema?), and for his interviews with the working people of… Read More ›
Obama Is Not A Socialist
Barack Obama, the messiah of the reformist left, represents to many just as what his posters display—“Hope” and “Change.” He is simultaneously denied a hundred-fold by socialists everywhere, but this does not stop people, both on the street and in… Read More ›
Health Care, Workers’ Union Rights & Much More: “We Can Get it If We Try”
In the words of the great rock-singing group, Sly and the Family Stone, “You Can Make It If You Try.” Those were encouraging words then and are very appropriate today. We are hearing, too often, that we can get Health… Read More ›
Welfare Queens
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 ›
Labor Theory of Value, a Simple Explanation
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 ›
The Red Phoenix 