Anarchist Studies: Syndicalism, Anarchism and Marxism Wed, 05/23/2012 – 14:02 — Anarcho Printer-friendly versionThis is the published version of a reply to an article by Marxist Ralph Darlington in Anarchist Studies (vol. 17, no. 2). Darlington’s original article appeared in Volume 17, Number 1 of Anarchist Studies and discusses the anarchist origins of syndicalism and refutes attempts [...]
Hedges: How Our Demented Capitalist System Made America Insane When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. May 14, 2012 | Unfortunately for the author of this piece Marxism is still an [...]
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Illustration by Mr. Fish Colonized by Corporations By Chris Hedges In Robert E. Gamer’s book “The Developing Nations” is a chapter called “Why Men Do Not Revolt.” In it Gamer notes that although the oppressed often do revolt, the object of their hostility is misplaced. They vent their fury on a political puppet, someone who masks colonial power, [...]
Welcome to the Asylum By Chris Hedges April 30, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied [...]
China’s Rise, America’s Fall More Sharing ServicesShare|Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on email Which superpower is more threatened by its “extractive elites”? By Ron Unz | April 18, 2012 The rise of China surely ranks among the most important world developments of the last 100 years. With America still trapped in its fifth year of economic [...]
True Democracy Still Far Off By Gibson Nyikadzino April 03, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — It is fact that in many – if not all ‑ countries of the world, the dominant political discourse consists of ideas put forth by the ruling class. This discourse led Karl Marx to argue that [...]
Is it a house or a home? A temple to the new India, or a warehouse for its ghosts? Ever since Antilla arrived on Altamont Road in Mumbai, exuding mystery and quiet menace, things have not been the same. “Here we are,” the friend who took me there said, “Pay your [...]
Karl Marx argued that in any society, those in charge have the power to propagandise their worldview [GALLO/GETTY] New Haven, CT - Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he nevertheless understood the country, because he understood capitalism. As you know, there’s no American ideology that’s mightier than capitalism. Equality, justice and the rule of [...]
Towards Tamil Eelam London Speech by Ron Ridenour / March 7th, 2012 This speech has been unusually difficult for me to prepare, because I am so angry with the whole world, and most of the people in it, including many of the victims of oppression. I will explain underway. I [...]
Lessons from Greece on democracy and debt-bondage BY DAVID MCNALLY | FEBRUARY 28, 2012 It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks — less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the Greek people ensnared once more in the vice-grip [...]
Parasites Lost by Doug Harvey I once asked a Native American if he thought whether North America was in any way in a post-colonial period. His response was, “Have they left yet?” Of the New World republics that came about as a result of colonization, the United States is going to have [...]
We Can Now See the True Cost of Globalization The worldwide public realizes there is something deeply wrong with today’s world economic system Sunday Observer Editorial When Karl Marx called for the workers of the world to unite, it seems unlikely he had in mind an iPhone boycott. But suggestions for just such a campaign [...]
The Delusional Assumptions of Capitalism by Doug Harvey One of the more delusional aspects of capitalism is the idea that if one pursues the acquisition of private wealth with abandon, that this is somehow automatically “good” for human society. The laissez-faire advocate and novelist Ayn Rand wrote that if one does not support this notion [...]
Karl Marx: The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property [EPA] Barcelona, Spain – A few weeks ago, after participating at a conference at Stony Brook University in New York, I went to Zuccotti Park to see and support the protesters there. A few months earlier, I had [...]
The All-American Occupation A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street By Steve Fraser Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer. If so, it couldn’t be more appropriate [...]
Camila Vallejo – Latin America‘s 23-year-old new revolutionary folk hero Chile has been engulfed by student protests – and their young leader has huge public support in her fight against the elite Camila Vallejo on a march in Santiago held on the anniversary of the Pinochet coup that toppled President Salvador Allende in 1973. Photograph: [...]
A Point of View: The revolution of capitalism Continue reading the main story Lure of power (JG) Greece and folly (JG) Modern parenting (AB) Social climbing (AB) Karl Marx may have been wrong about communism but he was right about much of capitalism, John Gray writes. As a side-effect of the financial crisis, more and [...]
A woman carries a portrait of Fidel Castro during a ceremony for the Cuban hero’s 85th birthday [AFP] Cuba’s Fidel Castro has turned 85 years old amid celebrations for the revolutionary legend who led his country for nearly 50 years before ill health led him from power in 2006. Castro’s birthday officially fell on Saturday, but the communist nation [...]
Anger rises alongside increases in the real unemployment rate in the US, where the economy is not coming out of recession [GALLO/GETTY] The Associated Press‘ Paul Wiseman had one of the snappier headlines last week: “The Economic Recovery Turns Two – Feel Better?” “After previous recessions, people in all income groups tended to benefit,” Wiseman [...]
The predatory capital project and its partner the imperial project are fast running out of the fresh kill zones they require in the killing fields they so euphemistically called the “new world” or the “third world” Marx clearly predicted that there would have to be a massive expansion of the predatory beast into the rest of the world, [...]
Solidarity and Struggle: 50 Years with Che Sun, 04/17/2011 – 20:20 — Anonymous by: Ron Ridenour (This article is the first of seven pieces dedicated to the Cuban revolution and its defeat of the US imperialist invasion 50 years ago, April 17-19, 1961, and embraces my half-century struggle.) I. Sharing Che’s Activism Che’s [...]
There was some very interesting graffiti during a period in Czechoslovakia, it simply said, “Socialism: The painful transition from capitalism to capitalism.” This article looks at Communism in Poland and the position there now. This is done looking at women’s issues closely. As Bakunin predicted the Russian Red Bureaucracy unleashed by Marx was a disaster [...]
