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The Abolition of the State
Anarchist & Marxist Perspectives
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Both Anarchists and Marxists believe that it will be possible to do away with the state. But what do they mean by that? What is the state, after all? What institutions, if any, would be necessary to replace its functions? Would a transitional “dictatorship of the proletariat” be needed or will it be possible to immediately abolish the state? Does modern technology require a centralized institution such as the state? Throughout the history of revolutions, the people have created workplace councils and neighborhood assemblies--how could these replace the state?
The Accumulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1913
Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
The Accumulation of Capital An Anti-Critique
The Accumulation of Capital, or What the Epigones Have Made of Marx's Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1915 Published: 1921
Rosa Luxemburg's reply to the critics of her book The Accumulation of Capital. Originally written in 1915 while Luxemburg was interned in the women’s prison, Barnimstrasse, Berlin, and published after her death.
Advanced Capitalism and the Revolutionary Left
Towards a New Practice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
The programme of the Winnipeg Labour Collective, its understanding of socialism's past forms and its conception of socialism's future.
Adventures in Marxism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy
Resource Type: Book
After the New Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Against Capitalism
The European Left on the March
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Against the Market
Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
Alienation, Marx's theory of
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
As expressed in the writings of the young Karl Marx, refers to the separation of things that naturally belong together, or to put antagonism between things that are properly in harmony. In the concept's most important use, it refers to the social alienation of people from aspects of their "human nature". He believed that alienation is a systematic result of capitalism.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
The Experience of Modernity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 1988
Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
Alternative Press Center
Resource Type: Organization
Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
Answering Camille Paglia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
What is important about Paglia is that she expresses more forcefully than most academics, if not more eloquently, this year's most popular half-truths. By marshaling the prejudices of many elements of the working class she channels them into a direct line that leads to support for the bourgeoisie.
An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
A Canadian pamphlet with English translations of three articles originating with the Italian autonomist Marxist organization Lotta Continua.
Bad Marxism
Capitalism and Cultural Studies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Cultural Studies commonly claims to be a radical discipline. This book thinks that's a bad assessment. After an introduction critiquing the so-called 'Marxism' of the academy, Hutnyk provides detailed critical analyses of the approaches and theorists of cultural studies.
Baran and Sweezy's Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
Beating Back the Corporate Attack
Socialism and the struggle for global justice
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Our movement is calling for a new direction -- for democratic control of our political life, and for democratic control over the most important aspects of the economy. Why should handful of the super-rich run the planet, and, moreover, run it into the ground?
Behind Closed Doors
How The Rich Won Control of Canada's Tax System... And Ended Up Richer
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
A stinging indictment of Canada's tax system and the people who shape it.
The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A World Capitalist Crash
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Today we see the Western bourgeoisie, disarmed by its own neo-liberal ideology, falling back in a flash on Keynesianism, injecting hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system to stave off collapse, and dusting off forgotten laws and powers from 70 years ago to push through their emergency measures.
Break Their Haughty Power
Resource Type: Website
Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
Build It Now
Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
Can Civilization Survive "Really Existing Capitalism"? An Interview With Noam Chomsky
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
On the occasion of the release of his latest book, Masters of Mankind: Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013, Noam Chomsky gave an exclusive and wide-ranging interview to C.J. Polychroniou.
Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
Canada's Great Divide
The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
The Canadian City
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Based on the belief that a healthy city life is possible, this volume collects articles, stories and histories about the city and its people, covering aspects such as human and social relations, art and architecture, urban planning, land development, and the greening of the urban environment.
Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1867 Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1893 Published: 1956
Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1894 Published: 1971
Capitalism and the Ecological Footprint
Published in Monthly Review, Volume 61, Number 6 - November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The capture of ecological discourse by the political culture of the consensus (a necessary expression of the conception of capitalism as the end of history) is well advanced. In contrast, the expression of the demands of the socialist counterculture is fraught with difficulty—because socialist culture is not there in front of our eyes. It is part of a future to be invented, a project of civilization, open to the creativity of the imagination.
Capitalism and the Information Age
The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution
Resource Type: Book
A rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of new technologies.
Capitalism and the National Question in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
Essays examining a variety of questions about Canada's past, from a Marxist perspective.
Capitalism and Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
Capitalism and communism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
Gilles Dauvé outlines the development of capitalism, and communism as the real movement in everyday life which tends towards the abolition of wage labour.
Capitalism for Beginners
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
Capitalism is Icky!
Resource Type: Photo/Image/Poster
First Published: 1977
Capitalism is the West's Dominant Religion
Reflections on the Religion of the Market
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Welton describes capitalism as the dominant religion in the West, where Economics is the new theology of this global religion of the market and consumerism its highest good.
Capitalism, The Family, and Personal Life
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Capitalism's violence, masses' revolt show need for total view
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
News and Letters' Draft Perspectives Thesis. Our age is in such total crisis, facing a choice between absolute terror or absolute freedom, that a revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, “inside” and “outside.”
Challenging McWorld
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
China: Rise and Emergent Crisis
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Book review of Au Loong Yu's 'China's Rise: Atrength and Fragility.'
Class Warfare
Interviews with David Barsamian
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Climate Struggles and Ecosocialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The hard right U.S. administration of Donald Trump has widened the terrain of struggle over climate change and, indeed, the entire array of environmental issues facing the ecology of North America and the working class movement.
The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
The Competition Myth - The Real Meaning of the Last Twenty-five Years
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
The problems which working people have suffered in the last twenty-five years are not problems which the ruling elite are trying to solve but weapons they have devised to attack working people in a class war.
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II
Economic Writings 2
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989 Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
The Corporate Consensus
A Guide to the Institutions of Global Power
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
A detailed guide to the institutions and corporations which occupy the commanding heights of corporate power in the world today.
Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
The Corporation
The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Makes the case that corporations function as a psychopathic entity. A companion to Mark Achbar's 2003 documentary of the same name.
The Corporations and the State
Essays in the Theory of Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Essays discussing modern U.S. capitalism and imperialism. Each chapter tries to delineate the relationship between 'economic' and 'political' processes, or at least recognize the unity between them. The unifying them is the role of the large corporations in U.S. society and the world eonomy, and the relationship between these corporations and the capitalist state.
Creative Destruction: The Madness of the Global Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The current system of economics, particularly the latest stage of 'turbo-capitalism', known inoffensively as 'neoliberalism', is built upon painful boom-and-bust cycles fuelled by corporate greed and maintained by cynical deception of the public. The costs to the planet - in terms of human suffering and environmental collapse - are staggering.
'Creative Destruction' - The Madness of the Global Economy - Part 2
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
The dominant system of economics is unstable, inimical to social justice and lethally damaging to the environmental support systems on which we all depend. A major failure in professional journalism has been the refusal to analyse this; or even to report that real growth rates in the developed world have been declining since the 1970s.
The Crisis of Modern Society
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1965 Published: 1967
Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
The Critique of Capitalist Democracy
An Introduction to the Theory of the State in Marx, Engels, and Lenin
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1957 Published: 1969
Decolonization and Empire
Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
Democracy Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Wood provides a brilliant explication and defense of the key theoretical concepts relevant to socialism, understood to be the most radical social and economic democracy.
Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988 Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
Devastating Crisis Unfolds
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Bob Brenner, for the ATC editors. The current crisis could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. It manifests profound, unresolved problems in the real economy that have been — literally — papered over by debt for decades, as well as a shorter term financial crunch of a depth unseen since World War II. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system is what’s made the downward slide so intractable for policymakers and its potential for disaster so serious. The plague of foreclosures and abandoned homes — often broken into and stripped clean of everything, including copper wiring — stalks Detroit in particular, and other Midwest cities.
A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
Digital Labor and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
This article reviews the role of the international division of labour in classical Marxist concepts of imperialism, and extends these ideas to the international division of labour in the production of information and information technology today. Sigital labour, as the newest frontier of capitalist innovation and exploitation, is central to the structures of contemporary imperialism.
Dilemmas of Domination
The Unmaking of the American Empire
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Argues that in a not-too-distant future the American empire's hidden weaknesses will pose fatal challenges to American supremacy.
Dilemmas of Third World Communism
The Destruction of the PKI in Indonesia
Resource Type: Book
Dilemmas of Third World Communism is a study of the Indonesian Communist Party that aims to answer more general questions about the difficulties, and even defeats, encountered by so many left-wing movements in the Third World. Olle Tornquist argues that one fundamental reason for the Indonesian military's successful destruction of the Party lay in the Party's failure to analyze the nature of the post-colonial capitalist society that was emerging.
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
Journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster capitalism.
Discussion of Marx's Theory of Crisis (Part 1)
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Do It
Scenarios of the Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing!
Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
Ecology and value theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
A review of Jason W Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital.
Ecology Against Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Deals with such issues as pollution, sustainable development, technological responses to environmental crisis, population growth, soil fertility, the preservation of ancient forests, and the "new economy" of the Internet age.
Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982 Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
Economics for Everyone
A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
The Economics of Imperialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Brown discusses different theories of the connection between capitalism and imperialism. His own position is derived from Rosa Luxemburg, holding that imperialism is a process of assimilation and transformation of economies into the sphere of competitive capital accumulation.
Economics of the War Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1959
Ever since Lord Keynes' dictum that wars - like pyramid-building and earthquakes - may serve to increase wealth, it has been increasingly recognized that war and preparation for war are necessary aspects of the prevailing economy and a condition of its proper functioning.
The Economics of War and Peace
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1956
Wars, like crises, are inherent in uncontrolled capital accumulation even though their actual occurrence in time is not predictable.
The Economy of Cities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Ideas about what makes cities rich or poor, how cities grow, and how city growth affects national economies.
Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
The Empire God Built
Inside Pat Robertson's media machine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A profile of the demagogue who become one of the most successful media moguls in the world.
Empire of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as the author powerfully demonstates, the economic empire of capital has also created a new and unlimited militarism.
The End of Capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For all those who wish to see a different world, this moment is dripping with opportunity because the old order is crumbling before our eyes.
The Enemy
Notes on Imperialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2002 Published: 2007
We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
The Enigma of Capital And the Crisis of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2010
Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1972
Eurocentrism
Resource Type: Book
Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Faltering Economy
The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
Fictitious Capital for Beginners
Imperialism, 'Anti-Imperialism', and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Rosa Luxemburg's framework enabled her to see how capitalism could ultimately destroy society - barbarism, in her words, or the 'mutual destruction of the contending classes' as the Communist Manifesto put it in 1847 - by being required to turn more and more to primitive accumulation and non-reproduction, a prophecy we see materializing before our eyes today.
Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is 'reform', 'flexibility', 'risk', 'perfect markets = perfect democracy' and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the 'social', from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
To understand the weight of fictitious capital in the current context, it is necessary to look beyond the merely economic to the class struggle. Despite the colossal efforts of ideology to deny or trivialize social antagonism, everything today is shaped by class struggle, both the one-sided class struggle waged for 30 years by the capitalist class, and even more so the potential threat of a two-sided struggle to re-emerge into the open.
A Focus of Anti-capitalist Struggle?
Book review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A book review of No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won't Change the World
Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution! Part Two
How the Liberals and Reformists Derailed the Struggle for Integration
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
There is a lot of talk today about multiculturalism, diversity, whiteness and "racialized subjects" and other liberal jargon that essentially attempts to erase the centrality of anti-black racism and black oppression in racist capitalist America.
For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
For the Common Good
Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
Forget One Direction - We Need a New Direction
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
If people think equality and social justice are unrealistic, then we really are lacking in imagination. When they try to tell you that our better-world ideals are unrealistic, tell them it's unrealistic to allow elite bankers to send tens of millions of people into starvation.
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
1843 to Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginning to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of curent discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory.
Four Books on Hegemony and Resistance
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
There are times when a key analysis has a wakeup effect. The last year saw the publication of four books that together have a potential of such an event, at least for those U.S. citizens who are motivated to try and understand and change the world. The four were not written with the idea that they would be read together, yet taken together they are, I believe, more thought-provoking than if considered separately.
The Four Laws Of Ecology And The Four Anti-Ecological Laws Of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
An exponential growth dynamic is inherent in capitalism, a system whereby money is exchanged for commodities, which are then exchanged for more money on an ever increasing scale.
The Freudian Left
Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
The FTAA and the WTO: the meta-program for global corporate rule
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
The deepest and most systemic threat to civil and planetary life the world has ever faced is underway. Behind the disasters of regional economies and planetary ecosystems melting down, the threat is driven by an underlying meta-program, in terms of which every decision, every policy, every regulation and implementation is demanded and instituted by servant governments.
FTAA, The Hydra's New Head
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Capitalism in many ways is like the mythical hydra of Greek legend, a gigantic serpent with multiple heads, the center one being immortal; every time an attacker chopped off one of its outer heads, two others grew in its place. It was killed by Heracles, with the assistance of his charioteer Iolaus. As Heracles chopped off a head, Iolaus would burn its neck cavity to keep new heads from growing. Eventually they were able to reach the center head and sever it from the body.
General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A discussion regarding the rise of the leftist movement in East Asia.
Gentrification Represents a Geography of Inequality
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
What does gentrification mean for the future of American cities? It means more than the arrival of trendy shops and expensive coffee. Peter Moskowitz intertwines human narratives with incisive analysis of the systemic forces contributing to America's crises of race and inequality, in How to Kill a City. Click here now to order this book with a donation to Truthout!The following is a Truthout interview with Peter Moskowitz, author of How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood.
Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
Third Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984 Published: 1988
See also CX2933.
The Global Gang Thang
A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Globalization and Feminism
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In the concluding chapter of this innovative and insightful anthology, Torry Dickinson and Robert Schaeffer argue that “A key development for both theory and politics has been that the intersection of different global hierarchies has led to the rise of global, intersecting social movements. Many of the movements that have emerged are feminist-inspired and women-centered because women have been targeted by male-dominated institutions as new sources of accumulation, profit, and greed.”
Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform
Into the Twenty-First Century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
The Great Unravelling
From Boom to Bust in Three Short Years
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
Green on Red
Evolving Ecological Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Essays exploring alternative economic and political strategies within an ecological context.
The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992 Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
The Grundrisse
Outlines of the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1857 Published: 1973
Marx wrote this huge manuscript as part of his preparation for what would become A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (published in 1859) and Capital (published 1867). The series of seven notebooks were rough-drafted by Marx, chiefly for purposes of self-clarification, during the winter of 1857-8. The manuscript became lost in circumstances still unknown and was first effectively published, in the German original, in 1953.
Heretics and Renegades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1955 Published: 1969
Essasy on the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc.
Highrise and Superprofits
An Analysis of the Development Industry in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
The Historical Moment That Produced Us
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
As we emerge, hopefully, from this dismal period of rollback, we recall Rosa Luxemburg's remark, shortly before her murder in 1919: "The revolution says: I was, I am, I shall be!" We assert the ongoing reality of communism, "the real movement developing before our eyes," as Marx put it in the Manifesto. Like Hegel's "knights of history," we locate our identities not in any immediacy but in the emerging new universal that must be the cutting edge of the next global offensive.
A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1914 Published: 1972
Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
A History of Capitalism
1500-2000, New Edition
Resource Type: Book
Beaud's analysis provides a realistic and thorough examination of the developments of capitalism in the last twenty years, including globalization, the accelerating speed of capital transfer, and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
The History of Costa Rica
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998 Published: 2007
An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
How can we destroy capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
Corporate Watch's new publication, 'Capitalism, What is it and how can we destroy it?' provides an accessible introduction to capitalism and explores how we might bring about its ending. What is capitalism? An economic system built on private property, markets, exploitation and profit, enforced by state violence. But also, digging deeper, a culture of fear and passivity, in which we learn to see the natural world, other people, and even ourselves, as objects to be owned and managed, bought and sold.
Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
Argues that the accepted theories of imperialism are profoundly flawed.
International Forum on Globalization
Resource Type: Website
An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
Die Internationalisierung der kapitalistischen Produktionsverhältnisse und der Nationalstaat
Internationale Marxistische Diskussion 42
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Interview with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1990
Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
An Introduction: Capital's Global Turbulence
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1999
A JOYLESS IRONY of our time is that just as capitalism seemed all-triumphant and the sirens of neoliberalism had declared history to be at an end, the crisis rolling out of Asia has brought the self-regulating global market to its knees. Add to this that at the same time as Marxism as political doctrine has been declared dead, Marxist economics has never been better argued and empirically defended than today.
Introduction to Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1932
Marx's book on capital, like Plato's book on the state, like Machiavelli's Prince and Rousseau's Social Contract, owes its tremendous and enduring impact to the fact that it grasps and articulates, at a turning point of history, the full implications of the new force breaking in upon the old forms of life. All the economic, political, and social questions, upon which the analysis in Marx's Capital theoretically devolves, are today world-shaking practical issues, over which the real-life struggle between great social forces, between states and classes, rages in every corner of the earth.
An Introduction to Capitalism
Four lectures on Marxian Economies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Introduction to Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
This book is aimed to guide the first time reader through a difficult and intricate text. Harvey makes CAPITAL relevant to the understanding of contemporary capitalism.
Introduction to Social Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A Short Introduction to Social Revolutionary Politics, with short articles on ""Capitalism," "War," "State Capitalism," "National Liberation and Imperialism," "Racism," "Sex Roles," "Education," and "Reform and Revolution."
Inventing Reality
The Politics of News Media
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Parenti sets out to demonstrate how the news media distort important aspects of social and political life and why they do.
The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
Ireland and the Irish Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1971
Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
"It Is Profitable to Let the World Go to Hell": Will Capitalism Doom the Planet?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Disaster, poverty and misfortune have become great ways to make a fortune. From Afghanistan to Haiti, Pakistan to Papua New Guinea, the United States to the UK, and from Greece to Australia, journalist Antony Lowenstein uncovers how companies cash in on organized misery.
Janus and My Ode to Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Looking at Marx and how to make him relevant to people through 40 years of teaching Capital.
The Joy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997 Published: 2007
Knabb says "What is needed, I believe, is a worldwide participatory-democracy revolution that would abolish both capitalism and the state. This is admittedly a big order, but I'm afraid that nothing less can get to the root of our problems. It may seem absurd to talk about revolution; but all the alternatives assume the continuation of the present system, which is even more absurd."
Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
Karl Marxs Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1939
Otto Rühle's abridged version of Volume One of Das Capital. First published undeer the title "Living Thoughts of Karl Marx".
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1977
A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
Key Problems of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969 Published: 1970
Killer Coke Exposed
Against The Current vol. 135
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
In their September-October 2006 Against the Current (ATC 124) article “The Real Life Side of Coke,” Camilo Romero and Leslie Gill documented the growing movement of students and labor organizations that developed as a response to calls for international solidarity by victims of torture and intimidation at Coke bottling plants in Colombia starting in the 1990s. Joe Zacune wrote in the same issue about a movement of communities in India fighting to preserve their water and their health from a series of infractions on Coke’s part.
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
Lies The Media Tell us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
Lineages of Revolt
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades.
Lineages of the Arab Revolt
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
A review of "Lineages of Revolt: Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East" by Adam Hanieh.
Living socialism, The experience of the eighties
New Internationalist November 1985
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1985
Discussion focusing on the challenges of living a socialist life in modern times. Political commitments to meeting people's needs can be more rhetoric than reality. "How can socialism maintain its ideals in an international climate shaped by those hostile towards it?"
The Logic of Marx's Capital
Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
The Long Twentieth Century
Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994 Published: 2009
A comprehensive analysis of the development of world capitalism over the millennium.The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period.
Long Way From Home
The story of the Sixties generation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1980
An account of the upheavals and transformations experienced by those who came of age in the 1960s, a time when international currents of change intersected with specifically Canadian events and circumstances.
The Looming Crisis of World Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
MARXIST ECONOMISTS ARE famous for having accurately predicted seven out of the last one international economic crisis. Perhaps for that reason, many in recent times have been unusually cautious about once again "crying wolf," even as the evidence of international economic dislocation has mounted around them. Today, however, prediction is no longer necessary. The international economy, outside of the United States and Europe—perhaps 50% of the world—is already experiencing...
The Looting Machine Called Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
I have come to the conclusion that capitalism is successful primarily because it can impose the majority of the costs associated with its economic activities on outside parties and on the environment. In other words, capitalists make profits because their costs are externalized and born by others. In the US, society and the environment have to pick up the tab produced by capitalist activity.
Main Currents of Marxism
Volume 1: The Founders
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
Kolakowski gives his interpretation of the origins of Marxism, and analyses the development of Marx's thought and its divergence from other forms of socialism.
Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
Manoeuvres from above, movements from below: Greece under Tsipras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The Syriza left is at a crossroads. For all the belief that Syriza is a different kind of party, one that transcends the division between reform and revolution and therefore should be the home for the entire left, its left faces exactly the same problem as the reformist left in social democracy -- the trap of impotence. This article is written in the spirit of offering an alternative, around which the left as a whole can unite.
Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1936 Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
Marx, Freud, and the Critique of Everyday Life
Toward a Permanent Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1974
The theory and practice of revolutionary social transformation, Brown argues, must encompass the subjective, psychological dimensions of the revolutionary process.
Marx on Economics
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1961
A systematic compilation of extracts drawn from Marx's publications with brief summaries of their arguments.
Marxism and "Subaltern Studies"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
A review of Vivek Chibber's book Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.
Marxism.ca
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2016
A gateway to resources about Marxism compiled by Connexions.
A Marxist History of the World part 100: 1968-1975: the workers' revolt
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
As the crisis of capitalism spread around the world, the working class took centre stage – but the revolt did not result in successful revolution anywhere.
A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1982
The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
Meltdown
The End of the Age of Greed
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Paul Mason, the economics editor of BBC Newsnight, discusses the current economic recession and how it has caused for the neo-liberal orthodoxy to be undermined. He explores the roots of the crisis , and envisions a new era of hyper-regulated capitalism.
The Minimum Wage Debate
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
In a discussion of the debate over the minimum wage increase in the United States, Miah advocates for a socialist mentality and a focus on individual rights in order to provide an economic solution to the decline of the middle class caused by capitalisim.
Modem Capitalism and Other Essays
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
A collection of essays on the state of modern capitalism.
Modern Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Sweezy treats capitalism as a world system within which the so-called underdeveloped regions are a necessary part, backward precisely because they have been forced to contribute so much to the development of the advanced capitalist countries.
Modern Capitalism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1959 Published: 1975
For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
The Modern Crisis
Resource Type: Book
Modernity, postmodernity, or capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1996
Monopoly Capital
An essay on American economic and social order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
An analysis of American capitalism.
Monopoly Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1966
For Baran and Sweezy, capitalist problems are exclusively market problems.
Moscow Gangsters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1992
A conversation with Boris Kagarlitsky, a Russian social activist.
Murdered by Capitalism
A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The persistence of reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own "gravediggers" - a class of collective producers with no interest in the maintenance of private ownership of the means of production. The capitalist system's drive to maximize profits should force workers to struggle against their employers, progressively broaden their struggle and eventually overthrow the system and replace it with their democratic self-rule.
The Myth of the Market
Promises and Illusions
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
Naming the Moment
Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - Review
Resource Type: Article
Naomi Klein provides us with an engaging and easy to read account of the rise and rise of neoliberalism. However, her limited historical and analytical scope are disappointing.
The New Capitalism and the Old Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1975
New Democracy Internet site
Resource Type: Website
Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
The new socialist revolution
An introduction to its theory and strategy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
Chapter 6 - Strategy and Tactics. The first task of the revolutionary movement, its most important task within the next few years, is to destroy bourgeois hegemony and develop a radical consciousness among each of the potential constituencies for revolutionary action.
New videogame gives you a tough course in capitalist theory
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The video game Crisis Theory aims to teach players about capitalism.
News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
The Next Liberation Struggle
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The world today is poised between the U.S. and East Asian centered phases of capitalist expansion.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
The Nonsense of Planning
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1937
The literature dealing with the problems of a planned economy has attained proportions comparable only with those of the depression which brought it forth. In all this welter of thought, we may distinguish three main currents: one which stands for the possibility of capitalist planning, another which denies it on principle, and a third which hovers between these extremes and finds its champions both in the bourgeois and socialist camps.
The Not-So-Secret History of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
This is a coda to my review of Paul Collier’s book Exodus. I questioned the moral and social arguments that Collier employs to justify his arguments, and suggested that there is often a chasm between that evidence and Collier’s more contentious arguments, while many of his policy prescriptions are morally questionable.
On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2003
Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
One Market Under God
Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The Ontogenesis of the Interest in Money
Resource Type: Book
Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 9, 2015
Resisting Neoliberalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2015
Resisting neoliberalism: "free markets" and "free trade" are an ideological cover for what is actually a form of state capitalism in which working people subsidize and bail out corporations and the rich. In this edition of Other Voices, and more extensively on the Connexions website, we look at both neoliberalism and the resistance to it. The version of capitalism which became dominant by the 1980s has been given the name neoliberalism. The term refers to the global economic restructuring which has taken place, and to the accompanying shifts in the structures of power under which local and national governments have seen their ability to act independently curtailed by international treaties and by institutions which owe their ultimate allegiance to corporate capital. The essence of neoliberalism has been an unending campaign of class struggle by the rich against the rest. Yet resistance continues, and indeed continues to grow.
Our Generation
Volume 7 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1970
Our Generation
Volume 21 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1990
Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1992
Outline of Marx's Capital Volume I
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1979
Marxism is wrongly considered to be a new "political economy." It is true that, loosely speaking, even Marxists refer to Marx's analysis of capitalist production as Marxian political economy But Marxian political economy is, in reality, a critique of the very foundations of political economy, which is nothing else than the bourgeois mode of thought of the bourgeois mode of production.
Panama Papers show that capitalism is working perfectly
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
While corporate fraud is gargantuan in its scale, it is not the expression of a system that "isn't working". In fact, this is the way the system is designed to work.
The Paradox of Wealth: Capitalism and Ecological Destruction
Published in Monthly Review Volume 61, Number 6- November 2009
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A growing army of self-styled “sustainable developers” argues that there is no contradiction between the unlimited accumulation of capital and the preservation of the earth. The system can continue to expand by creating a new “sustainable capitalism,” bringing the efficiency of the market to bear on nature and its reproduction. In reality, these visions amount to little more than a renewed strategy for profiting on planetary destruction.
The Passion for Free Markets
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1997
Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
The People vs. Global Capital
The G-7, NTCs, SAPs, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
This book includes testimony presented to the Tribunal, the text of the Tribunal's indictment, and proposals for follow-up to the event.
A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 Published: 2003
Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1931 Published: 1969
A re-issue of two of Trotsky's works, Results and Prospcts, and The Permanent Revolution.
The Perspective of the World
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1984
The Political Economy of Growth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968
The Political Economy of Health
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1979 Published: 1889
A Political Economy of the African Crisis
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The economies of almost all African countries are in a state of crisis, and in some cases actual disintegration. This is a crisis not of natural disasters, but of human making, and in dramatic detail, Professor Onimode shows how this is now reflected in African countries' contracting economies, soaring unemployment, mounting external debts, and periodic outbreaks of famine. He examines the role of multinational corporations, the export of capital, and class and economic distortions.
The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
Popular Movements Toward Socialism
Their Unity and Diversity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The following reflections deal with a permanent and fundamental challenge that has confronted, and continues to confront, all popular movements struggling against capitalism. By this I mean both those of movements whose explicit radical aim is to abolish the system based on private proprietorship over the modern means of production in order to replace it with a system based on workers’ social proprietorship, and those of movements which, without going so far, involve mobilization aimed at real and significant transformation of the relations between labor and capital. Both sorts of movements can contribute, in varying degree, to calling capitalism into question; but they also might merely create the illusion of movement in that direction, although in fact only forcing capital to make the transformations it would need to co-opt a given set of working-class demands.
The Post- Industrial Utopians
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2013
Against the thesis that Western subalterns are made of different stuff, Chibber argues that human beings are, at their core, not that different across contexts. The winds of history and culture may change many things, but not human constitutions. His defense of this argument sets the stage for a deliberate, careful explication of the key tenets of historical materialism. This argument is that humans, everywhere, take an interest in defending their well-being and their dignity.
Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1858 Published: 1964
Thes notes of 1857-1858 throw light on Marx's views concerning the economic development of human society as a whole, from "primitive communism" to capitalism and socialistm. The notes deal partcularly with the epochs of historic development and their evolutionary stages.
Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1859
Perhaps Marx's most succinct summary of his analysis of political economy.
Presenting Insurgent Notes
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We take our Marx and Engels seriously. Recent history, beginning perhaps (in the US) with the UPS strike of 1997 and the 'battle of Seattle' in 1999, now quickened by the abject financial and ideological meltdown (Fall 2008) of the three decades of the stifling 'neo-liberal' era, has favored a certain revival of the radical critique of capitalism, by which we understand first and foremost the work of Karl Marx.
"Theory must seek its practice," Marx wrote long ago, but "practice must also seek its theory", and such theoretical ferment expresses the rising tide, in fits and starts reaching back to the 1990's, of an accelerating global reaction to the ravages of the 'neo-liberal', 'Washington consensus' phase of capitalism, after the rollback of what we might consider he last (l968-1977) offensive of the world working class.
The Privatization Putsch
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
According to Hardin, privatization is the expression of the ideology of a right wing, corporate agenda: business wants to gets its hands on public funds and politicians are more than willing to hand over publicly owned enterprises and public services to business friends, nearly always on terms that are immensely favourable to the corporations involved.
Production or Reproduction?
Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Most readers of Capital come to it with a 'tool kit' of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a 'tool kit' usually imbued with various 'hard-headed' ideas about an early and a late Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the political economy of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this late Marx was and economist in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
Progress Without People
In Defense of Luddhism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
Property and Progress
The Historical Origins and Social Foundations of Self-Sustaining Growth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A collection of texts on the origins of capitalism with substantive material on the debate regarding the transition from feudalism to capitalism.
A quick note on neoliberalism and state capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.
Quotes about Capitalism
Resource Type: Unclassified
Racism, capitalism and contradictions
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
The Racket
A rogue reporter vs the masters of the universe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2015
While working at the Financial Times, investigative journalist Matt Kennard uncovered a scam - a deception and rip-off of immense proportions. The world as we know it is run by a squad of cigar-smoking men with big guns, big cash and a reach much too close to home.
Radical Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Lummis revives the meaning of democratic struggle and critques the economic and technological processes that have hindered its growth.
Radical Digressions 2
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
Radical Perspectives in the Arts
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1975
A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
Ralph Nader and the Legacy of Revolt (Part 3)
Against The Current vol. 90
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
Ralph Nader has a complex relationship with the historical currents of change before World War I (populism, socialism and progressivism), but it may be his relationship to the Communism of the mid-twentieth century that has shaped his view of reform. Nader readily accepted the prevailing view that the Soviet regime exemplified the definition of socialism, that is, a concentration of bureaucratic power based on government ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution.
Reading Capital Politically
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981 Published: 2000
Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital.
Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
New Internationalist November 1998
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1998
Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1975 Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
Reform and Revolution
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1967 Published: 1968
An essay taken from Andre Gorz's Le Socialisme Difficile in which he discusses how socialist strategy can aim to crate the objective and subjective conditions which will make mass revolutionary action and engagement in a successful trail of strength with the bourgeoise possible.
Restructuring and Resistance
Diverse voices of struggle in Western Europe
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
The book consists of 77 individual chapters, almost all of them written by activists based on their experiences of struggle against the different aspects of capitalist globalisation. Those that aren't are chapters that give a theoretical background that links these struggles together, particularly in the opening section, 'The Europe of Capital'.
Rethinking Camelot
JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Chomsky analyzes the Kennedy Administration's policy on the Vietnam War and compares the US Administrations of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan.
The Roaring Nineties
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
The roots of gay oppression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Marxists, since Marx and Engels themselves, have always believed that only a socialist revolution could open the way to sexual freedom and equality. The history of same-sex relations suggests that the most basic human activities, including sexuality, are collectively constructed in human society.
Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Reading Marx’ Capital today leaves the same impression as reading Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. One wonders whether Marx and Luxemburg really wrote their books more than one hundred years ago. If not for their historical references to English industrialization and nineteenth-century imperialism, one might think they were written as analyses of neoliberal globalization from the late twentieth century until today.
The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
Rosa Luxemburg's Shock Doctrine
The "Hideous Nakedness" of Imperial Wars
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Luxemburg's discussion regarding capitalism and democracy speaks to the world we live in today. Imperial war, she wrote, shows capitalism in 'all its hideous nakedness.' This bloody nakedness is not only essential to capitalist development, but depends on it. Indeed, it is the most cataclysmic and radical of all capitalist shocks.
Selling Free Enterprise
The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism, 1945-60
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Seven Reasons Why Capitalism Can't Recover Anytime Soon
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
There is a larger disease in the international economic system, a disease that cannot be cured by politicians who swear allegiance to this deteriorating system and to the wealthy elite who benefit from it.
Book Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
David Harvey has three aims in Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (SCEC). First and mainly he wants to schematically analyze the contradictions of capital, the 'economic engine' driving the particular social formation capitalism. Second, he seeks to draw-out that analysis's implications for anti-capitalist politics dedicated to creating a world substantially more democratic, egalitarian, and emancipatory than that which capital affords. Third, he aims to address what might cause the end of capitalism and, specifically, whether capital's internal contradictions progressively undermine its conditions of existence.
The Shock Doctrine
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
Silent Surrender
The multinational corporation in Canada
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1970
Levitt examines the historical background of foreign investment in Canada, its acceleration since the Second World War, and the nature of the intrusion into a sovereign state of the multinational corporation. she argues that recolonization by U.S. international corporations is rapidly transforming Canada into the world's richest under-developed country.
The Silent Takeover
Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001
A combination of globalisation and the growing power of major corporations is rendering democratic governments impotent for influencing key decisions that affect the lives of ordinary people.
Social Democracy Without Illusions
Renewal of the Canadian Left
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
Socialism or Barbarism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1961 Published: 1969
The combined socialist objectives from members of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" of France, "Unita Proletaria" of Italy, "Socialism Reaffirmed" of Great Britain, and "Pouvoir Ouvrier Belge" of Belgium.
The Socialist Register 1964
Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1964
The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1966
The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1968
The Socialist Register 1969
Volume 6: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1969
The Socialist Register 1972
Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1972
The Socialist Register 1979
Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1979
A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
The Socialist Register 1981
Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1981
The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1984
The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
The Socialist Register 1989
Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1989
Socialist Register 1995
Volume 31: Why Not Capitalism?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1995
Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1997
Socialist Register 2006:
Volume 42: Telling the Truth
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
Society of the Spectacle
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 2005
An analysis of modern society and how it can be changed, written in the form of 221 theses. The first thesis reads: "In societies dominated by modern conditions of production, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation." Translator Ken Knabb describes the book as "an effort to clarify the nature of the society in which we find ourselves and the advantages and drawbacks of various methods for changing it. Every single thesis has a direct or indirect bearing on issues that are matters of life and death."
The Sociology of Marx
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1966 Published: 1969
Lefebvre discusses and dissects both the theoretical and the practical Marx to illuminate the enduring power of Marx's thought and Marx's incisive wit as a commentator. Through Marx, we can obtain a coherent picture of reality as it was as the inception of the modern age.
Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn't Tell You About Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism's supposedly self-evident "free market" truths. But Chang's book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang's own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2014
An investigation of the alternatives to capitalism, including socialism, anarchism and deep ecology.
The Spectacle
A Skeleton Key
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1981
An anarchistic meditation on the bankruptcy of contemporary life. Specifically the role of "spectacle" in representing reality has led to a complete dearth of presence in everyday human interaction.
The Spectre of Capitalism
The Future of the World Economy After the Fall of Communism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Speed Up Rush to nowhere How turbo-capitalism eats time
New Internationalist March 2002
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
A look into the act of speeding up time and rushing to accomplish tasks and its consequences.
The State as Protection Racket
Chapters in the History of Daylight Robbery
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgotten, despite recurring astronomic fraud perpetrated by US corporations.
The State in Capitalist Society
The Analysis of the Western System of Power
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1969
Miliband argues that the pluralist-democratic view of society, of politics and of the state in regards to the countries of advanced capitalism, is in all essential wrong.
Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1964 Published: 1967
Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972 Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
Studies in the Development of Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1947 Published: 1968
A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
Sustainability Searching for solutions
New Internationalist November 2000
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2000
A look at the issues and facts regarding sustainability around the world.
Syriza and Sanders: "Just Say 'No'" to Neo-liberalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Hopes for Syriza's negotiations with the banking troika in the EU simmered and even boiled over among elements of the left, especially after the vaunted "No" referendum vote suggested that the Greeks would not succumb to another wave of austerity measures but would instead stand firm, even if this meant potentially leaving the EU. We have seen these hopes dashed by the subsequent "negotiations," in which Tsipras seemed to have negotiated backwards, arriving at an agreement that was worse than the one rejected by the Greek voters in the referendum vote.
Talk on Anarchism and Capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
Tearing Down the Seven Pillars of Neoliberalism
Manifesto 2007
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
With the beginning of the 1980s, we entered a new era of capitalism, the era of neoliberalism. This project systematically destroys all political, social and ecological restrictions for the activity of capital. Its methods are universally known: transformation of all relations into commodity relations, freedom of action for businesses and investors and expansion of the hunting area for transnational corporations over the whole planet.
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 2014
This is the first systematic discussion of the Marxian political economy of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, and Samir Amin. Foster explains their theoretical contributions and situates these in the context of ongoing debates on economic theory.
The theory of the collapse of capitalism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1934
Struggle is never simple or convenient.
This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
This is about systems – the food system, the capitalist system and the socialist system.
Today's Epigones Who Try to Truncate Marx's Capital
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1974
Far from 'ownership' alone determining the class relationship, Marx, from his first break with bourgeois society in 1843, through his leadership in the Workingmen's (First) International Association in 1864, to his death in 1883, never varied from 'dead labor dominating living labor' as the determinant of capitalism.
Towards a Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986 Published: 1995
Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
A Symposium
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 Published: 1979
U.S. Labor's Subterranean Fire
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
The broad outlines of the crisis of the U.S. labor movement -— sharply declining union density, concession bargaining, failures to organize the growing non-union manufacturing and service sectors, the labor officialdom’s reliance on institutionalized labor-management cooperation schemes — are familiar to readers of Against the Current. The roots of this crisis — the dominance of bureaucratic business unionism and the weakness of rank-and file-led reform movements from below — are also well-known.
The Useful Altruists: How NGOs Serve Capitalism and Imperialism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
NGOs are far from revolutionary organizations, but many of us would think that their work still seems more helpful than not. Political differences with them aside, it seems dogmatic to denounce free health care and anti-poverty programs. Short of more radical measures, NGOs seem to serve an important interim function. In fact, though, it can be argued that many NGOs are destructive, both in their current work and in their preclusion of an alternative future beyond the capitalist present. They undermine, divert, and replace autonomous organizing and erase working class struggle and organizing.
Value, Price and Profit
Speech by Marx to the International Working Men's Association, June 1865
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1865 Published: 1898
Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
Viewpoint: Transnationals After Seattle
Against The Current vol. 88
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
Mass politics in the streets disappeared in the United States between 1970 and 1973. In retrospect, it is clear that the years 1964 to 1970 were not a “pre-revolutionary situation,” but anyone who lived through those years as an activist can be forgiven for thinking it was. Any number of people in the ruling circles shared the same error of judgment.
Violence Today
Actually Existing Barbarism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
Voyages To Utopia
From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989
The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
Wall Street
How it works and for whom
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
A definitive overview of the financial markets and their economic and political role.
The War after the War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1918 Published: 1973
We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
We Can Get There From Here
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1998
We pose the following question: Is the capitalist system really meeting our needs or is it undermining our needs by giving us artificial motivators which actually result in feelings of inadequacy and isolation?
Western Capitalism Since the War
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1968 Published: 1970
What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
Who do we try to rescue today?
Canada under corporate rule
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
A collection of essays discussing aspects of the role of corporations in late-20th-century Canada.
Why are we afraid of naming and confronting capitalism?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
Many critics of capitalism suggest that capitalism is not the main problem in the world. They do not want to appear, in the eyes of the people and the ruling elite, as too radical or 'ideological'. But the forces for social change must embrace revolutionary engagement with robust ideological clarity: Capitalism is the problem.
Why Marx Was Right
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
Within and Against the Market
Resource Type: Article
Radical initiatives which take subversive action from within the system.
Workers Hold the Keys
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
Working Lives
Vancouver 1886-1986
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1986
Working Toward Whiteness
How America's Immigrants Became White
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
Yesterday's News
Why Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.

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