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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Book Review, Capitalism, Human Nature, Work

A Few Words on the German Ideology

The ideas in The German Ideology (TGI) have had great influence over the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and all of the SPGB’s companion parties which ...

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Capitalism, Economics

Globalization Goes Into Reverse

Back in October 2008 I suggested that globalization ‘has lost impetus and may even have passed its zenith’. Now, in the aftermath of Brexit and the inauguration ...

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Capitalism, Class, Evolution, Human Nature, Socialism

Human Nature and How It Can Save Us

Talk given by Karla Rab at the Community Church of Boston on May 3rd, 2015 “Socialism — A nice Idea, but it’ll never work because it’s against
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