A common talking point amongst apologists for Capitalism is that wage labor isn’t exploitative because people enter into it voluntarily. But this simplistic explanation hides some very interesting points about the true nature of the relationship between owner and worker….
The following is an extract from a manual issued by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS,) a predecessor to the CIA, giving advice designed to help imperialist agents sabotage the states of Axis powers and their collaborators. This is provided…
While it’s common for people to use the words state and government interchangeably, Marxists view the two terms as having very different meanings. What’s the difference between the state and the government? To Marxists, the state consists of all the…
For those new to Socialism, the task of removing Capitalism can seem daunting to the point of being impossible. What can an individual do to bring down Capitalism? How can Socialists, a group of ordinary citizens, take control of the…
When you talk to people about socialism, one of the first arguments doubters trot out is that communism could never work, because people are too lazy and greedy to behave altruistically. According to the doubters, people won’t bother to work…
Britain is said to be the home of parliamentary democracy, which countries around the world have modelled their own political systems on. But what the media and education systems rarely ask is whether this democracy actually lives up to what…
Recently, newspapers and conservative social media feeds blasted out happy birthday messages for Charles Windsor’s 74th. But the case for keeping the monarchy is built on inequality and exploitation. Spending £345 million per year to keep one family in luxury,…
There are a group of talking points going around today that paint communism as an anti LGBTQ+ ideology. When queer people identify ourselves as communists, we’re sometimes ridiculed as naive. We must not have heard about Stalin re-criminalizing homosexuality, or…
Many socialists in the Imperial Core today see creating co-ops as a way to combat capitalism. In co-ops, they say, there are no owners extracting surplus value from the workers. Therefore, the existence of co-ops both prevents Capital from exploiting…
How many times have you heard someone say: “I’m going to get a job that pays me what I’m worth”? That feeling of being poorly rewarded for your efforts is one that most of us can relate to. All the…
