By Eric Schechter This is a work in progress. For further iterations, see Eric’s FB blog at: http://www.facebook.com/notes/eric-schechter/trained-to-not-see-the-basic-fallacies-of-capitalism/10150372384702640 Editor’s Note: Marx and Engels spoke 16 decades ago about the self-destructive “social relations” of capitalism (actually applicable to any profoundly inegalitarian and exploitative system). His insights, though constantly denounced as “false” or “vulgar” by the hordes [...]
Libya: Imperialism and the Left By Stephen Gowans, What’s Left WHILE THE CLASS CHARACTER of regimes under siege by Western powers is often explored in analyses of imperialist interventions and is frequently invoked to justify them, it neither explains why capitalist imperialist powers intervene nor stands as a justification for their actions. The relevant consideration in [...]
Can spontaneous revolts make revolution? That is the question. And while an all-out uprising can indeed topple a tyrant, without a vanguard revolutionary party, “the system” (the underlying web of social power relations) is bound to remain in place. In the essay below, Jim Cannon, a veteran fighter for socialism and a Trotskyst, analyzes the [...]
by Tom Burghardt Antifascist Calling… Following revelations by Bloomberg Markets Magazine that a spun-off intelligence unit of German electronics giant Siemens, Trovicor, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Perusa Partners Fund 1 LP, a shadowy investment firm headquartered in Guernsey, had sold surveillance gear to Bahrain deployed against the pro-democracy movement, it has since emerged that Microsoft [...]
9/11 Mythology: The Big Lie of Our Time – A broad section of Americans (and many people around the world) continue to be divided about who exactly carried out the attacks, with the “Truthers” arguing it was all an inside government job, and others believing the facts remain inconclusive and often contradictory. One thing unites [...]
OBAMA & JOBS— After playing a big role in the American economic debacle now afflicting most Americans, and through his betrayals and unleadership, Obama and his accomplices now propose a “jobs program” that serves as a smokescreen to put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. It’s nothing less than balancing the budget on [...]
The unity brought about by the tragedy was intense but fleeting. The war on terror has been disastrous abroad and divisive at home. Gary Younge, The Guardian (U>K>) In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks the then national security adviser, Condoleezza [...]
By Phil Rockstroh As Hurricane Irene made her way up the Eastern Seaboard, my wife and I packed a few changes of clothes and trundled westward out of her path to spend the storm’s duration in Pittsburgh, PA. The excursion did us some good, in particular, leaving insular Manhattan, and facing the faded, crumbling Industrial [...]
