Disability and Capitalism
By Matthew Smyth and Andy Yorke A Marxist analysis shows that marginalisation and oppression of disabled people is inextricable from […]
Fully Automated Luxury Communism or scientific socialism
Tim Nailsea reviews Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani
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How capitalism causes unemployment
How Marxists explain the causes and consequences of unemployment under capitalism
Imperialism, capitalism and the destruction of humanity and nature
A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.
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B is for Bolshevism
Bolshevism is the model of democracy and unity that won the world’s first socialist revolution
D is for Democracy and Dictatorship
Marxists make a distinction between forms of government and the class nature of the state. We always ask, “which class interests are served by the state?”
E is for Exploitation
Marx proved that exploitation is caused not just by the sharp practices of some bad capitalists, but is part and parcel of the profit system itself.
G is for God
Only the overthrow of the profit system can create the conditions for the withering away of humanity’s psychological need for religious belief
M is for Materialism
Philosophical materialism demonstrates why socialism is the necessary outcome of the capitalist crisis.
O is for Oppression
Oppression is a fundamental, necessary part of capitalism, and can only be destroyed along with it.