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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 ...

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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 ...

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Archives, Book Review, Class

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 ...

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Archives, Class, Work

The Sit-down Strikes in America (1937)

From the April 1937 issue of The Socialist Standard America, we have often been told, is the great land of “Liberty”. They boast there of their “Liberty Statue” and ...

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Capitalism, Class, Environment

Lead Poisoning in Flint, Michigan

By Alan Johnstone The wheels of justice turn slowly. Lead poisoning also acts slowly, but is no less pernicious for that. The city of Flint’s water crisis ...

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Archives, Book Review

Bogdanov, Technocracy and Socialism (2007)

From the April 2007 issue of The Socialist Standard The terms “Bolshevism” and “Leninism” are usually treated as synonyms. In view of Lenin’s enormous influence over the ...

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Archives, Politics

Ballyhoo and Baloney (2008)

From the October 2008 issue of The Socialist Standard The National Conventions of the Democratic and Republican Parties have become forums for putting the finishing touches on the ...

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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 ...

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Capitalism, Economics

Waste and Want: Grapes of Wrath Revisited

In his famous novel The Grapes of Wrath (Chapter 25), John Steinbeck described how food was destroyed during the Great Depression: Carloads of oranges dumped on the ...

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Book Review, Socialism

Council Communist

Book Review from the February 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick‘, by Gary Roth. Chicago. Haymarket Books, ...

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