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• The Concept of Method: Dialectics and Metaphysics

  By The Red Phoenix on September 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  In the process of acquiring knowledge and in their practical activities people set themselves definite goals and tasks. But to set a goal or to formulate a task does not mean that it will be accomplished. It is very important… Read More ›

• Protest Against Corporate Welfare in California

  By The Red Phoenix on September 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 September 2010 CONTACT: Elijah Craig, elijahAPL@gmail.com American Party of Labor joins advocates and others in calling for an end to wasteful corporate tax breaks and secret loopholes; Billions in giveaways to wealthiest corporations cost the State… Read More ›

• Cold War Killer File: Augusto Pinochet

  By Victor Vaughn on September 11, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  “Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.” – Augusto Pinochet “Not a leaf moves in this country if I’m not moving it.” – Pinochet, October 1981 Remember September 11th, 1973 During the height of the Cold War, the Central Intelligence… Read More ›

• On Marxism-Leninism

  By The Red Phoenix on September 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  When one removes the rose-colored glasses of American consumerist ideology, that anti-culture which assures us that happiness is only “one purchase away,” the world we see is one plagued by stratification. We live in a world of billionaires and starving… Read More ›

• Special Report from Comrade Talha Saad, a Marxist-Leninist in Pakistan

  By The Red Phoenix on September 5, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) was privatized by the former military dictator Gen. Pervaiz Musharaf in 2005 after brutally suppressing a workers’ anti-privatization movement. 26% of the shares of the company were sold while the government retained more than 51%… Read More ›

• Iraq War Update: Operation “New Dawn” & the Reality of Troop Withdrawal

  By The Red Phoenix on September 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Iraq War “Over?” On the 31st of August 2010, the last Stryker division of America’s combat forces crossed the border into Kuwait. While the reduction of the number of occupying forces isn’t an unwelcome development, the reality is that… Read More ›

• Philosophy as a Science

  By The Red Phoenix on September 1, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Philosophy is one of the oldest sciences. Many philosophical systems have been developed by the most diverse social classes and groups in different historical conditions and countries. In order to find our bearings in this multitude of philosophical systems, ascertain… Read More ›

• Celebrate the 91st Anniversary of American Communism

  By The Red Phoenix on August 31, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  Today marks the 91st anniversary of the birth of the first American Communist Party. The Communist Labor Party was formed on August 31, 1919 by John Reed, Benjamin Gitlow and other expelled members from the Socialist Party of America. The… Read More ›

• Tea Party Sparks Controversy over “Ground Zero Mosque”

  By The Red Phoenix on August 29, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Controversy The American press has manufactured an infamous controversy over the incorrectly-named “Ground Zero Mosque.” It is nearly impossible for us to resist such an easy opportunity to highlight the boundless stupidity of the right, which shines brighter than… Read More ›

• American Progressivism

  By Editor-in-Chief on August 23, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  A growing trend in American reactionary thought is painting progressivism as “the cancer of America,” often even misusing the term as a synonym for socialism and radicalism. Progressivism can be loosely defined as reformist “welfare state” capitalism. These days the… Read More ›

• Dialectics & Marxist Philosophy

  By The Red Phoenix on August 19, 2010 • ( 0 )

  What does one gain from studying Marxist philosophy? Marxist philosophy (1) is a harmonious system of man’s views of the surrounding world, the laws of its development and ways of cognising it. A study of philosophy, therefore, provides us with… Read More ›

• Cold War Killer File: Ronald Reagan

  By Victor Vaughn on August 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  The Man & the Myth “I’d like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.”–Concerning student demonstrations in California, 1966 “The entire graduated income tax structure was created by Karl Marx. It has no justification in getting government revenue.”–During the… Read More ›

• California Proposition 8 Overturned

  By The Red Phoenix on August 14, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  On August 4, 2010, Chief Judge Vaughn Walker struck down Proposition 8, a ballot initiative passed in California in November 2008 which had previously prevented any same-sex couples from getting married. In his statement, he ruled that the proposition violated… Read More ›

• The Revolutionary Process

  By The Red Phoenix on August 11, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  It is without a doubt that our society as it stands is in desperate need of change. How does society truly change? What does change entail? Numerous ideologies have different ways of approaching these questions. Liberalism acknowledges that “change” to… Read More ›

• The Toxic Legacy of a Dirty War

  By Victor Vaughn on August 8, 2010 • ( 0 )

  

  An article in The Independent appeared on July 24th, 2010, reporting on the deadly and poisonous after-effects of the United States occupation of Iraq. The report focuses on Fallujah especially, where the rates of infant mortality, cancer, birth defects and… Read More ›

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