Socialism
Capitalism, Economics, Environment, healthcare, Housing, News, Science, Socialism
Markets Are Trash
The Covid-19 pandemic exposes the cruel and absurd results of relying on markets for the satisfaction of human needs. In Las Vegas homeless men sleep on a parking lot on a street full of empty hotels.
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.
How I Became a Socialist
In this feature, members of the World Socialist Party of the US share personal stories of how they became socialists. More stories will be added as they become available.
Capitalism, Housing, News, Socialism
Fire on 9th St
Whenever out-of-towners imagine Las Vegas, they’ll usually think of the extravagance of downtown and the strip. Glistening lights, risqué showgirls, exquisite food – It’s like a never-ending ...
Capitalism, Environment, Socialism
Global Heating and Socialism
The author formulates alternative long-range scenarios for human survival or extinction in the context of global heating. What are the prospects of 'green capitalism'? What does the climate crisis imply for our thinking about socialism?
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.
Capitalism, Class, media, Politics, Socialism
What Is ‘Millennial Socialism’?
Opinion polls suggest that the younger age groups in the United States – colloquially referred to as ‘millennials’1– are much more open to socialist ideas than their ...
Britain’s Political Crisis (1975)
From the October 1975 issue of The Socialist Standard Text of a letter sent by a member of the World Socialist Party of the US to the American left-wing ...
Bolshevism and the Third International (1936)
From the February 1936 issue of The Socialist Standard By no means unanimous will be the interpretations placed on the programmes formed at the recent seventh World Congress of the Communist ...
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, ...
