capitalism
China, trade wars, and challenges to building socialism (video)
China is attempting to build a “modern, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious, and sustainable socialism” by 2050.
How neoliberal racism sparked the Great Recession
The capitalist drive for maximum profits led the banks to target African Americans, Latinos and the elderly resulting in the largest wealth loss in U.S. history.
Marxism in the era of Amazon and Uber
Capitalists go to great lengths to call members of today’s working class anything but workers (instead they are labeled everything from “contractors” and Wal-Mart “associates” to “day laborers” and prison...
The Marxist Classes: Labor’s largest defeats (part 2)
Part 2 draws insights from the survival of the Cuban state, comparing it with the Soviet Union in 1988, a year before the latter's collapse.
The Marxist Classes: Labor’s largest defeats (part 1)
Twelve states fell to counter-revolution in the 1980s and early 1990s, from Albania to the Soviet Union. What lessons can we learn from these defeats?