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No One Helped — Or Did They?

Most ordinary people do not passively stand by and watch when someone needs help.

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Book Review, History, Human Nature

After Shipwreck

When a group of people are stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck, what sort of society do they form among themselves? And how does this affect their chances of survival? The historical record shows that groups based on cooperation and equality fare best.

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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.

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Capitalism, Human Nature, Marxism, Politics, Socialism

‘Revolution, Not Reform’ by Jordan Levi

In this pamphlet, Jordan Levi explains why reforms within capitalism can't solve the main problems facing humanity and why we need to replace it with socialism.

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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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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, 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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