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Michael Schauerte

Capitalism, Economics, Marxism

But What About the Wage-Price Spiral?

Foundation of the spiral argument In nearly every media interview in recent months, Mick Lynch, general secretary of the  National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers ...

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Capitalism, History, Socialism

Has the Era of Social Revolution Arrived?

Our comrade Mike Schauerte recently recorded a half-hour talk with this title on the Discord system. To listen to the talk please follow the links.

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Book Review, Human Nature, Socialism, Work

William Morris and the Treasures of Early Socialism

What is the point of studying the history of early socialism? The understanding of what "socialism" itself means has changed radically in the subsequent years.

6 min read

Capitalism, Environment

Green Capitalism?

What if there was a way to make capitalism environmentally friendly and more economically robust, in a way that benefited workers in particular? Liberals like Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are claiming that a ‘Green New Deal’ would do just that. Can it? Or is it the very nature of capitalism that makes it so destructive to the environment?

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Capitalism, Class, Human Nature, War

Impressions on Returning to a Strange Native Land

I have lived more years in Japan than in my native country, the United States. My impressions of American life come from visiting Chicago for a couple ...

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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 ...

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Archives, Book Review

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 ...

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Archives, Film Review, War

Refusnikism (2007)

Film Review of Sir! No Sir! from the March 2007 Socialist Standard David Zeigler’s documentary Sir! No Sir! looks back on the movement within the military to end the Vietnam War, interviewing ...

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Archives, Politics

Ballyhoo and Baloney (2008)

From the October 2008 issue of The Socialist Standard The National Conventions of the Democratic and Republican Parties have become forums for putting the finishing touches on the ...

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Archives, Capitalism, News, Politics, Socialism

Trump’s Economist Advisors Seeing Red Everywhere (2018)

From the December 2018 issue of The Socialist Standard The word ‘socialism’ is more attractive than scary these days—and that has the White House worried. Two hundred ...

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