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WPA Strikes (1939)

From the December 1939 issue of The Western Socialist Karl Marx, in his writings, predicted that some day the capitalists would have to take care of their slaves; that ...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:52 am PDT

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A Starvation Society (1976)

From the Spring 1976 issue of The Western Socialist This is one of a series of articles that appeared in The Lance, published by the Student Media, University ...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:47 am PDT

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Lenin vs. Marx (1976)

From the Spring 1976 issue of the Western Socialist This is one of a series of articles that appeared in The Lance, published by the Student Media, University of Windsor ...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:42 am PDT

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Lenin . . . Reviewed (1976)

Book Review from the Fall 1976 issue of The Western Socialist Lenin as Philosopher by Anton Pannekoek, Merlin Press, 11 Fitzroy Square, London, W.l. The Russian State proclaims ...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:37 am PDT

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The God That Failed (1950)

Book Review from the June-July 1950 issue of The Western Socialist The God That Failed edited by Richard Crossman [Harper & Brother] Six (presumably) wise men, tending ...

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 9:30 am PDT

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Capitalism, Class, War, Work

May Day: The Endless Fight for the Eight-hour Day

Dancing round the Maypole on the First of May is an ancient custom. Only in 1891, however, did May Day become an occasion for workers’ demonstrations. The ...

Stephen Shenfield

Sunday, April 28, 2019 at 3:50 pm PDT

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Class, News, Politics, Socialism, War

Arguing With President Trump

On February 5 our great flag-hugging president Donald Trump stood before Congress and delivered his State of the Union Address. Among other things he said: Here, in ...

Stephen Shenfield

Friday, March 15, 2019 at 6:06 pm PDT

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Book Review, Capitalism, Class

‘Changing the World’ Without Changing the World

Daniel W. Drezner, The Ideas Industry. Oxford University Press, 2017. David Callahan, The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Anand Giridharadas, Winners ...

Stephen Shenfield

Friday, March 8, 2019 at 2:28 pm PST

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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 ...

Michael Schauerte

Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 12:52 am PST