Capitalism and Marxism

May Day 2024: Resist the witch-hunts!

On International Workers’ Day 2024, workers in the U.S. could swear that Senator Joe McCarthy and Minister Cotton Mather had…

1 year ago

Karl Marx’s debt to people of African descent

In this blogpost, Biko Agozino argues that Karl Marx was among the few European theorists of his time who did…

2 years ago

Corporate magazine describes and bemoans the ‘end of capitalism’

An April 5th article from the aptly-named pro-capitalist magazine website, Fortune.com, carried the title:  “‘We may be looking at the end…

2 years ago

Lenin: Thinker, fighter

https://youtu.be/Bm5xeMxSjgg V.I. Lenin was born on this day, April 22, in 1870. Struggle-La Lucha presents this brief biography written by…

2 years ago

Marxism and insurrection: In defense of the LA rebellion

Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century, died 25 years ago…

3 years ago

The meteoric rise and collapse of FTX

The large cryptocurrency exchange FTX went out of business on November 11. Many have likened this phenomenon to the collapse…

3 years ago

Why Marx was right about capitalism needing to have periodic crises

The National Business Review reported a comment by New Zealand's then National Party government Minister of Finance, Bill English, on…

3 years ago

Throwing door open for oppressed people: Bolshevik Revolution changed the world forever

One-hundred-and-five years ago, on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. The world hasn't been…

3 years ago

Life expectancy and human development in the 21st century

Life expectancy is one of the best measures of human development.  In hunter-gather societies, on average, about 57-67% of children made…

3 years ago

Raise the minimum wage (and give Marx a prize)!

The typical winner of the Nobel Prize in economics is a 67-year-old man, born in the United States, who is…

4 years ago