Capitalism and Marxism

Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

May 1, 2024 Melinda Butterfield
On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had returned from the dead. More than 35,000 Palestinians, including 14,000 children, have died in just […]
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Karl Marx’s debt to people of African descent

February 5, 2024 Biko Agozino
In this blogpost, Biko Agozino argues that Karl Marx was among the few European theorists of his time who did not try to conceal his ‘debt’ to Africa but celebrated such knowledge as foundational. Agozino […]
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Corporate magazine describes and bemoans the ‘end of capitalism’

April 27, 2023 Chris Fry
An April 5th article from the aptly-named pro-capitalist magazine website, Fortune.com, carried the title:  “‘We may be looking at the end of capitalism’: One of the world’s oldest and largest investment banks warns ‘Greedflation’ has gone […]
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Lenin: Thinker, fighter

April 22, 2023 Vince Copeland
V.I. Lenin was born on this day, April 22, in 1870. Struggle-La Lucha presents this brief biography written by Vince Copeland, originally published in 1989, on the 65th anniversary of Lenin’s death. George Plekhanov did […]
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Marxism and insurrection: In defense of the LA rebellion

January 31, 2023 Sam Marcy
Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago on Feb. 1, 1998. To mark the occasion, Struggle-La Lucha is publishing a selection of […]
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The meteoric rise and collapse of FTX

December 5, 2022 Prabhat Patnaik
The large cryptocurrency exchange FTX went out of business on November 11. Many have likened this phenomenon to the collapse of the investment banking firm Lehman Brothers during the financial crisis of 2008, believing the […]
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Why Marx was right about capitalism needing to have periodic crises

November 8, 2022 Mike Treen, Unite Union
The National Business Review reported a comment by New Zealand’s then National Party government Minister of Finance, Bill English, on Aug. 15, 2014, that he had occasionally pointed out in speeches to business audiences that […]
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Throwing door open for oppressed people: Bolshevik Revolution changed the world forever

November 7, 2022 Stephen Millies
One-hundred-and-five years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. The world hasn’t been the same since. Two million soldiers in the Russian army had died in World War […]
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Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century

September 11, 2022 Michael Roberts
Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.  In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made it to 15 years. Then 79% of those 15-year-olds made it to 45 years.  Finally, […]
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Raise the minimum wage (and give Marx a prize)!

October 27, 2021 Gary Wilson
The typical winner of the Nobel Prize in economics is a 67-year-old man, born in the United States, who is working at the University of Chicago when he wins. That’s what science writer Maggie Koerth […]