As America slips deeper into crisis, liberal efforts to preserve the capitalist system counter socialist efforts to replace it.
Continue reading...Monday, September 1, 2008
On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? Find out in this fictional interview with Frederick Engels.
Continue reading...Sunday, June 1, 2008
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
Continue reading...Sunday, May 18, 2008
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels 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.
Continue reading...Sunday, April 20, 2008
Two major unions, CNA and SEIU, are locked in battle. Should we take sides or support rank-and-file unity? (See postscript on recent CNA/SEIU merger)
Continue reading...Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Pessimism is self-fulfilling. When we expect nothing to change, then we do nothing to create change.
Continue reading...Friday, December 7, 2007
In their efforts to protect animals from unnecessary suffering, some people want to extend the fight for human rights and liberation to animals. While this sounds appealing, it confuses the meaning of rights and liberation
Continue reading...Thursday, December 6, 2007
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Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.
Continue reading...Sunday, November 4, 2007
Imagine what we could do if we used our minds to solve social problems, instead of restricting ourselves to choosing which section of the elite will dominate us.
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
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