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Socialism has its material roots in the inability of capitalism to solve humanity’s problems. Working people gravitate toward a radical critique of society out of necessity, out of a sense that the existing arrangements of society (people don’t necessarily call it capitalism) fail to fulfill their material and spiritual needs. |
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(Photo by Daveybot, courtesy Flickr, cc by 2.0)
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Over a decade ago Victor Perlo wrote, in his definitive work on Economics of Racism, that: “Poverty is a fully logical feature of capitalism, more completely than in earlier exploitative societies…” Why “more completely”? |
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From the mainstream business and conservative press to the right-wing president of France and across the political spectrum, there is of late a revived interest in the policies and prescriptions of the social democratic ‘golden age’ of stable and expanding capitalism that characterized the post-war decades. |
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Most debate regarding queer identity is erroneously focused on whether persons who do not conform to traditional gender activity or heterosexual relationships are acting on natural impulses. |
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(Photo by Daniel Lobo, courtesy Wikimedia Commons, CC by 2.0)
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In his book Anti-Dühring, Frederick Engels criticizes the social theories of the German philosopher and economist Eugen Dühring. In this article I discuss Engels' critique of Dühring's views on the origin of the concept of equality as well as his method of studying philosophical subjects. |
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Congressman Vito Marcantonio
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Congressman Vito Marcantonio rose in the House of Representatives on January 11, 1940 and declared that the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s practice of putting people’s names “on these index cards simply because of the views they may entertain, which may be contrary to the views entertained by Mr. [J. Edgar] Hoover and other people in power… |
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From its very outset, the struggle for women’s liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement. The Utopian Socialist Charles Fourier said famously that a society was judged by its treatment of women. |
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I am using a text by Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong called New Class Society: Goodbye American Dream? (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008) in a course called “The Politics of Capital and Labor.” The authors review and synthesize a variety of definitions of class from political theory and sociology. |
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Few, if any, books published in the past 10 years or so which deal with the histories and lives of people of Arab descent actually deal with Arabic experiences in America. It is as if Arab people entered the American consciousness only after 2001. |
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(Illustration by Victor Velez)
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It’s true that the advent of electric cars is not necessarily a boon for the environment if it means simply trading our reliance on one fossil fuel—oil, from which gasoline is distilled—for an even dirtier one: coal, which is burned to create electricity. |
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Unfortunately, Foer's argument is based on LOGICAL conclusions deduced from readily available empirical facts and , as Rowlands points out human beings in general "don't respond well to logical argument" – especially when they are engaged in politics. |
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Robert Borosage, in a recent article, joins the protectionist chorus targeting China as the source culprit in the Great Recession, adding some classic Reaganite/Bush dead-end embellishments like "Rogue Nation" and "communist dictatorship" to some familiar economic arguments. |
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Beloved food writer Michael Pollan recommends steering clear of foods that advertise their green attributes on their label. According to his line of reasoning, why give a child a fruit roll-up when you can give him or her a piece of fruit? |
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On Wednesday, March 03, 2010, four students from Miami Dade University--Filipe Matos, 23; Gaby Pacheco, 25; Carlos Roa, 22; and Juan Rodriguez, 20--walked through Gwinnett County, Georgia, for a discussion with Sheriff Butch Conway who supports enforcement of the controversial law, 287(g). |
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On Thursday, I was proud to take part in a student walkout at the University of Maryland in defense of public education. It was just one link in a National Day of Action that saw protests in more than 32 states across the country. |
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As African American history closes, I am noticing more "good old days" stereotypical portrayals of African Americans. Some might disagree with this, but I consider the Nike Kobe-Lebron puppet commercials crudely stereotypical. |
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On February 28, 1970 in downpour rain some 5000 Chicanos marched through the heart of East Los Angeles to protest the U.S. unjust war in Vietnam and the disproportionately high death rate of Chicano soldiers in the Vietnam War. |
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