Where We Are

 

To Save Jobs: Shorter Hours, Same Pay

 The Militant

Business and the Right Wing Try To Overturn the Will of the People

Fascists Attempting to Recall Kshama Sawant 

If they can't win, they destroy.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution's Innovations in Education

 "One of the most exciting breakthroughs of the Cultural Revolution was what was called “open door” research. In the countryside, scientific stations were set up close to the fields. Peasants, alongside specialists from the cities, carried out experiments in hybrid grains, conducted studies of insect-life cycles, and other aspects of science in agriculture. This helped the masses come to understand scientific questions and the scientific method; and helped scientists gain a better sense of conditions in society, including in the countryside.

In the cities, leading educational institutions and research institutes developed relationships with factories, neighborhood committees, and other organizations. People came to the laboratories and the laboratories went to the people. And you had innovative arrangements like women from a neighborhood factory producing parts for advanced computers—not as exploited Third World outsourced labor—but in a cooperative relationship with a lab or institute, and learning about the science of it all."

Raymond Lotta

The Renewal of the Socialist Ideal

Monthly Review 

Chaos Marxism

 Don't let anyone tell you that magic and the occult are just for right wing nutcases. Alphonse-Louis Constant was an early leader of the socialist movement in France. His pen name was Eliphas Levi, essentially the founder of modern occultism. Magic is Socialist.

Chaos Marxism

The Situationists

 "The Situationists, or Situs, were the first revolutionary group to analyse capitalism in its current consumerist form. Then as now, in the West most workers were not desperately poor, toiling 12 hours a day in factories and mines (workers' struggles over the previous 150 years saw to that) but the poverty of everyday life had never been greater. Workers were not beaten down with savage repression, so much as with illusions in empty consumer goods, or spectacles, which were imbued by culture and marketing with characteristics they don’t really possess. For example, that purchasing this or that gadget or brand of shoes will make your life complete, or make your sad life like that of the celebrities and models culture shows us."

The Situationists

We Are Not In This Together

It is us against them.

Why You Should Be a Communist

A socialist might be happy with just moving things around a bit and, say, making sure that investment banks who have behaved reprehensibly aren’t always the first beneficiaries of government welfare.

A communist wants more. A communist seeks the abolition of property, whether held by the state or private firms and citizens; they want all of us to own everything equally and become our own dictators. A communist seeks conditions to end the state entirely and have all human society collectively managed.

-Helen Razer

Important Differences

One of the differences between Capitalism and Communism:

Consider a Congolese child working in a mine for the rare elements which go into smartphones. Under Capitalism, this child is exploited for pennnies, if she is paid at all, and the fruits of her labor go to a small number of rich people.

In Communism, the child wouldn't be in the mine. She would be in school, and the mining would be done by adults, extracting the wealth of that mine collectively, for the good of their community.

The smartphone still gets made. It just isn't done with slave labor for the purpose of enriching a small elite. It is done with collective labor, to satisfy a need for smartphones.