Is a computer software designer, for instance, or a waiter in a tourist resort, a member of the working class? Is their labor productive or unproductive? In this paper I address some longstanding prejudices about the class identification of workers employed in the production of nonmaterial commodities or in sectors usually categorized as services.

As one of the famed theoretical architects of the so-called "War on Terror," and of the subsequent US invasion of Iraq, Francis Fukuyama’s much celebrated postmodern, even in some respects deconstructionist, notion of the "End of History" repeated in a kitsch fashion that which others have already repeated of the philosopher Hegel, who said it far more eloquently a long time ago.

En un artículo publicado en edición de Julio 2007 de Political Affairs, “Class Struggle in a Socialist Market Economy,” [Lucha de clases en una economía socialista de Mercado] intenté ilustrar las distintas formasde lucha de clase que ocurren en una economía mixta orientada hacia el socialismo con fuerte componente capitalista.

In an article in the July 2007 Political Affairs, “Class Struggle in a Socialist Market Economy,” I attempted to illustrate the different form of class struggle that takes place in a socialist-oriented mixed economy with a strong capitalist component.

Social class is usually treated as though it doesn't exist. But for working families struggling without good jobs or adequate pay, who lack health care or decent housing, the systemic economic divisions that determine their life chances.

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ path to strategic conception and Vladimir I. Lenin’s concrete experience to achieve socialism and the basic teachings of the experiences of constructing socialism in the 20th century.

The year 2007 marks the 140th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1. After these many years it can be asked whether this great book still has anything relevant to say about social problems now at the forefront of human concern.

For Marxism, strategy is not self-executing. Alone it is a theory or plan of what should be done, of what class and social forces can be brought together for what next strategic goal, aim, or objective. What determines whether that happens or not is tactics.

A philosophy may be defined as the most general statement the philosopher can make regarding the nature of the universe and humanity’s position in it.

Yesterday I bought this little plastic bright green water spray thingy that you use for various things like when you iron or for plants.

Questions about the problems and prospects of socialist-oriented market economies are bound up with our understanding of the proper tasks of the proletarian state. A fundamental concern is whether markets are compatible with the political supremacy of the working class.

A question in progressive circles comes up from time to time, and that is "is socialism inevitable?" That is not the question that this essay will attempt answer, except with the general answer that socialism will be the next era of human history.

Just as China's socialist market economy is today dismissed by many in academia and the bourgeois press as a return to capitalism, it is important to recall that Lenin too faced similar criticism during the early years of Soviet power.

The field of scientific research, technological development and its application to the production process is advancing at a dizzying and ever accelerating pace. Astounding new technological changes like the Internet are revolutionizing production and social life.

China has approximately 1.3 billion people or around 1/6th of the world's population living in one nation. The economy is growing at 10 percent per annum and the urbanization of China continues.

One of the chapters (incomplete) in Engels' "Dialectics of Nature" is entitled: "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man". Although this was written in the 1870s it compares well, I think, with scientific ideas that are considered new today.

Morality based on empathy, rejection of unfairness (exploitation), and human solidarity (at least on the level of kith and kin) has been characteristic of our species when not overlaid by class struggle and class interest.

I propose to show that Russell's interpretation of Rousseau in The History of Western Philosophy (HWP), is both unfair and inaccurate and misrepresents Rousseau's historical legacy.

The new balance of forces in Congress, the greatly weakened position of the Bush administration, and the growing activity of the labor-led people’s coalition have rearranged the political playing field in our country. Everyone involved in politics has to adjust their tactics to these new realities.

Why is it so difficult to build a Marxist mass movement in the US? There are Marxist movements of considerable size, in comparison to the US, both in many Third World nations and in countries more advanced than the US.