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.

Previous art theory/history has taken certain routes to understand art that I think, always accidentally-on-purpose, bypasses the most crucial element that can make sense of it. This is the role of the Aesthetic State Apparatus (ASA).

Hannah Arendt’s contribution to modern political theory is to be celebrated in an upcoming conference at Bar-Ilan University dedicated to one of her central philosophical works, The Human Condition.

For many revolutionary organizations to act on their desire to further the socialist cause, it is necessary to focus not on revolutionary posturing but on a "reform" initiative, namely the defeat of the Republicans in the 2008 election.

In his eulogy at the graveside of Marx, Engels pointed to the two great discoveries of Marx, the discovery of the materialist concept of history and the discovery of surplus value as the source of capitalist profit.

An international academic conference devoted to the subject “Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition” is to take place at Bar-Ilan University this month.

A recent article in the New York Times by Nicholas Wade (“Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior,” March, 20, 2007) explores recent scientific studies on the origins of the human moral sense.

This is an indispensable book for all those on the left interested in understanding how the science of cultural (social) anthropology developed over the last three centuries and how it is used to understand (and sometimes control) non-Western societies, especially those that have not developed complex state structures.

Essentially, the Black liberation movement in the United States is constituted to secure and safeguard the rights of a people to be free from all oppression. To be effective, it must amass power equal to its task.

I will not attempt to delineate here the ample and rich intellectual production of Karl Marx, his deep analysis of capitalism or the principal events of his era, nor will I touch upon his exemplary life as a social fighter and revolutionary leader. I know that these themes are familiar to you all.

We have always thought that what is needed for efficient struggle for socialism is organization. That is correct but it must be added that it is not any kind of organization that can be of help or even of necessity for this struggle.

To be sure, Marx or Engels never used the word globalisation that is a recent invention. Yet, despite the argument of many globalisation theorists that the world has now entered a new economic era, most commentators agree that many of the processes being analysed today go back to the old international economy.

Without doubt, the "second wave" of socialism — the socialism of the 21st Century — will distinguish itself from the "first wave" of socialist construction during the last century insofar as the revolutionary forces today have the benefit of analysing and learning from those previous experiences — both their achievements and their failures and distortions — and in this sense we can confidently predict that the "new socialism" will be better, stronger, and more enduring than the previous wave of socialist construction.

Almost a century and a half after Marx’s painstaking work had unearthed the anatomy of modern bourgeois society, we are once more in the danger of being deluged by “vulgar economy”.

Globalization, as the term is generally used, refers to the extension of the production and distribution of goods and services on a vastly greater international scale than ever before.

What is class and what role does it play, if any, in the US in the 21st century? These are two questions raised in a recent book titled Class Matters compiled by a handful of New York Times journalists and other commentators.

To halt the current slide towards fascism ("the national security state") we will need the combined forces of the progressive left as well as the center of the political spectrum that still believes in democracy and takes the Bill of Rights seriously.