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A Social Definition of Class

1. June 2008

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A Social Definition of Class

A social definition of class explains why the capitalist class will never put people first, why the middle class will always try to contain the forces of rebellion, and why only the working class has the numbers, the power and the motivation to replace capitalism with an egalitarian socialist society

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.

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Machismo at Work

29. September 2007

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Machismo at Work

Until they fight back as a class, workers will continue to construct more dehumanized conditions for themselves.

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Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

26. May 2007

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Class, Inequality and Illness: What’s Missing from the Health Care Debate

America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Inequality affects the health of populations more than diet, smoking, exercise and access to medical care.

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Mayonnaise and the Middle Class

8. April 2007

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Mayonnaise and the Middle Class

The middle class functions like an emulsifier, binding workers and capitalists in the social arrangement of capitalism.

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Open the Borders

10. March 2007

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Open the Borders

National borders prevent people from solving their common problems.

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The Secret: Snake Oil for the Soul

22. February 2007

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The Secret: Snake Oil for the Soul

The Secret assumes that we live in a just world where those who suffer must be doing something wrong.

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Society and the Environment

20. January 2007

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Society and the Environment

Our relations with the natural world flow from our relations with one another.

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Of Human Bonding

20. December 2006

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Of Human Bonding

We need a society based on strong social bonds, not one that tears them apart for profit.

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Are You a Communist?

29. November 2006

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Are You a Communist?

Our rulers love the concept of "community," as long as it doesn’t mean abolishing class divisions.

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