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…
A common refrain from baby leftists is that we need to unify the left. They look around at the fragmented factions of Democratic Socialists, Anarchists, Marxist-Leninists (MLs), and Marxist-Leninist-Maoists (MLMs), and declare that we should create a single, gigantic leftist…
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…
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…
A different explanation of extraction Nowadays it’s quite common to hear people complain that everything seems to be political. While your boomer dad is probably worrying too much about people living the way that makes them happy, the statement is…
Many new leftists struggle when reading theory. This is not unusual or surprising. Socialist theory is often dense and complicated, full of new ideas and concepts you’re likely unfamiliar with. If you read theory as an individual, as a single…
You might have heard the talking point that “poverty is a choice”. It’s a convoluted way of explaining why someone living one paycheck at a time might take a lower-paying job to survive, rather than investing in expensive training or…
