Why Socialism?
This essay was originally published in the first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949). Editor’s note: For compelling background on the FBI’s 22-year investigation of Albert Einstein please visit: BBC and...
View ArticleThe Origins of Modern Socialism
The specter of socialism is again haunting the minds of the corporate elite, from the Americas to Europe and beyond. This, after decades of pro-capitalist campaigning from the corporate media, which...
View ArticleAnarchism & Marxism: Their Similarities & Differences
In discussing Anarchism and Marxism with U.S. activists, there is an immediate challenge. Even on the issues that have traditionally separated these ideologies, there are many variations among those...
View ArticleWage Slavery in the American Auto Industry: Obama’s Shame
In an ideal world, we’d like all our plants to run around the clock, 365 days a year Ford’s VP of North American manufacturing The American auto industry is back in business in a big way. The carmakers...
View ArticleSpeech at the Grave of Karl Marx
Highgate Cemetery, London, March 17, 1883 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and...
View ArticleWhat is the Permanent Revolution?
Basic Postulates I hope that the reader will not object if, to end this book, I attempt, without fear of repetition, to formulate succinctly my principal conclusions. 1. The theory of the permanent...
View ArticleNinety Years of the Communist Manifesto
Workers Action Introduction Trotsky’s essay, “90 Years of the Communist Manifesto,” emphasizes how much relevance the Manifesto had at the time this essay was written in 1937, while also providing some...
View ArticleLiberalism, Ultraleftism or Mass Action
Workers Action Introduction The essay, “Liberalism, Ultraleftism, or Mass Action” by Peter Camejo, written during the height of the U.S. war in Vietnam, provides an excellent analysis of what...
View ArticleSocialism: Utopian and Scientific
Workers Action Introduction Engels’ “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” provides a historical account of the rise of Marxist revolutionary theory, showing how it represented a logical advance over more...
View ArticleThe Principles of Communism
Introduction by Workers Action Frederick Engels’ “Principles of Communism” was the basis for the Manifesto of the Communist Party, which resulted from Marx rewriting Engels’ essay in order to inject...
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