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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 ...
Archives, Book Review, History, Socialism
An American Marxist (1990)
Book Review from the May 1990 issue of The Socialist Standard Daniel De Leon. By Stephen Coleman. Manchester University Press. £25. The contribution to socialist thought of Daniel De ...
Archives, Film Review, History, War
Film Review: Lincoln (2013)
Film Review from the March 2013 issue of The Socialist Standard Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, written by Pulitzer Prize winner Tony Kushner is based on Team of Rivals: The Political Genius ...
Michael Harrington’s ‘The Other America’ (1964)
Book Review from the March 1964 issue of The Socialist Standard The Other America. Michael Harrington, Penguin, 3s. 6d. There is a pretty little myth that America is the ...
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 ...
Archives, Book Review, Class, Socialism
The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab (2011)
Book Review from issue 22 of The World Socialist Review Role Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab, by Karla Doris Rab. 504 pages. Lulu ...
Liberate Technology. Liberate Ourselves. (2018)
From the February 2018 issue of The Socialist Standard Technology has evolved to the point where there is no reason why food, clothes, housing, medical care, education, transportation, computers, books, cell ...