Month: May 2019
Capitalism and Underdevelopment: Where Leninists Go Wrong
From the Summer 1986 issue of The World Socialist The whole Leninist theory of imperialism turns on two or three major concepts: the twin notions of super-profits and super-exploitation, monopoly ...
Archives, Film Review, History
What Was He Fighting For? (2011)
From the May 2011 issue of The Socialist Standard Phil Ochs as the Sound of the “New Left” A new documentary film on the life and music of Phil ...
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2010)
Book Review from the February 2010 issue of The Socialist Standard First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek. Verso, 2009. Has Slavoj Žižek (the superstar Slovenian “theorist”) signed ...
The Campaign Against Prohibition in the U.S.A. (1932)
From the September 1932 issue of The Socialist Standard At the time of writing arrangements are being made to hold a big parade, and it is claimed that many trade unions ...
The Coming Election in the U.S.A. (1932)
From the October 1932 issue of The Socialist Standard The two great burlesque shows recently held in Chicago are now things of the past—the conventions of the two major ...
Bolshevism and the Third International (1936)
From the February 1936 issue of The Socialist Standard By no means unanimous will be the interpretations placed on the programmes formed at the recent seventh World Congress of the Communist ...
Archives, Capitalism, Class, Economics
I Wannabe a Plutocrat! (2013)
The Material World Column from the August 2013 issue of The Socialist Standard Dear Material World, My life’s dream is to become a fully paid-up member of the capitalist ...
Archives, History, Socialism, Uncategorized
Who the Hell Was Karl Marx? (1998)
The following is a transcript of a paper that was presented at the Socialist Party of Great Britain’s 1998 Summer School, which was held at Fircroft College in Birmingham, ...
Archives, History, Terror, Uncategorized
Leonard Peltier and the Primal Needs of Capital* (2004)
From Issue 19 of The World Socialist Review In a remote section of South Dakota just north of Nebraska lies an Indian reservation known as Pine Ridge. At ...
Who Are ‘The Poor’? (2013)
From the October 2013 issue of The Socialist Standard Socialists are reluctant to talk about ‘the poor’ as a distinct social group. In a certain real sense, all ...
