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What socialism is, what Communism was, and a summary of Marx's Capital Vol. 1.

Today we celebrate trading British rule for corporate rule! What does being an American mean to you?

Alexandra Popoff, Sophia Tolstoy : The Tolstoyan agricultural colonies were notorious for various incidents, which led to their breakup. ...

Anton Chekhov, Peasants : During the summer and winter months there were hours and days when these people appeared to live worse than catt...

Bloomberg Businessweek : A businesswoman who can maintain her poise in a strip club will prove to be a team player. Try not to appear shoc...

"The free development of individualities, and hence not the reduction of necessary labor time so as to posit surplus labor, but rather ...

"The dialectical mode of thinking, at least as I construe it, precludes closure of the argument at any particular point. The intriguing...

"[Malthus] … relates a specific quantity of people to a specific quantity of necessaries. Ricardo immediately and correctly confronted ...

" Last week a poll by the National Journal found that 59 per cent [of Americans] either fully or strongly agreed with the “aims” of [Oc...

" Market capitalism creates inherent difficulties. The two most obvious are macroeconomic instability and extremes of inequality. Th...

" What about the people who do not command any kind of premium in the marketplace? One strategy could be to find a high-flyer and st...

"Hence still today the demand for industriousness and also for saving , self-denial , is made not upon the capitalists but on the wo...

It's True in Philadelphia, Too: A Film for All Youse Articulate Activist Types. from Dog, Pig, and Wise Horse on Vimeo .

Going away for a while. When I come back I hope you will be fully prepared to discuss Season 1 of the Jersey Shore . Also: My mom really w...

Samuel Brittan, Financial Times : Marx has suffered not only from sycophants, but from critics who identify him with the Stalin dictatorsh...

US citizens have a relationship to their government which obligates them to oppose its crimes against themselves and others. Because this i...

Anarchism has always made the point, correctly, that states exist to defend a minority of wealth and privilege against the majority of the c...

The New York Times wants to know how much an apple would cost if farm workers had rights like other Americans. Might it unduly discourage U...

Gautam Malkani, Financial Times : Another much-discussed difference was the role of consumerism. In place of the traditionally anti-capita...

Economist : The movement [Joe] Hill lived and died for has proved less durable. As Mr Adler recalls, the Wobblies flourished for a brief, ...

Economist : Once upon a time the American right led the world when it came to rethinking government; now it is an intellectual pygmy. The ...

When you experience something beautiful there is often a kind of high that accompanies it; and like any high it is hard to sustain intensely...

From every corner you hear the refrain, "I am this way, they are that way -- and they're wrong." It's very common amongst...

I am called out for not "knowing" who Johnny Rotten is. I say, "I don't know lots of things." It's an appeal t...

I am very moved by the Lady Gaga song dedicated to her father, Razzi.

Dear dude, If you must expectorate all over the sidewalk, you will leave me no choice but to characterize you as the type of person who ex...

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I've seen the best memes of my generation destroyed by gladness .

If management suspects you of arriving to the job sober, for God's sake don't let on that you're also dependable.

I'm left to conclude that when people come into the city asking, "How do you stand all the noise and excitement?" it just mean...

Correspondence with the proprietor at It's Just A Ride helped me arrive at my new summer's resolution: Less time on the internet, m...

Even if the political project is not easily resolved, it should be easily understood: to live the way you want without denying anyone else t...

The most interesting thing about playing the guitar is when certain things change while others remain the same. For me, that is a more natu...

In order to "draw the line between the monopolists and the people," in the words of E.P. Thompson, it's never enough to merely...

Did the fall of the IOZian Union contribute to the proliferation of weapons of ass destruction?

While there are many epic conflicts happening in the world today, odds are they aren't between you and that anonymous driver/customer se...

The more social an event becomes, typically the more commercial. You can go to a party and expect certain patterns of conversation which ma...

American individualism begins with the idea that either you are "somebody" or you are "nobody"; and it ends with whateve...

WTF! So to summarize it's a gorgeous afternoon and all I'm thinking since I started my shift is when will hell recede enough to sta...

Your life is the terrifying space between purchases.

In what really could have developed into a conversation about anything else, a co-worker today argued that girls wear fewer articles of clot...

I wanted to say something about the retirement of IOZ. I don't remember how I first came across this blog, but it was enormously influe...

Ever since I first became a heterosexual, I have always liked girls. I don't mean in the normal American way, where you pretty much hat...

Today I am oppressed by the heat.

Che Guevara once said that the revolutionary must be guided by a deep and abiding love for humanity, though after three days in Bolivia he c...

In an alarming departure from my usual revolutionary routine, another person approached me this morning in what appeared to be a sincere att...

Not sleeping well. Dreamt I was an entrepreneur with a line of hydrant-shaped greeting cards for dogs called RSVPee-Pees that wasn't fe...

I'll be the first to say I was pissed when the world neglected to end last Saturday night. Even though the sky got dark and the wind pi...

For too long have I labored before this 17-inch screen with its "cathode rays" so that the world might bear witness to the sagacit...

Exhaust fumes, whether administered at home or on the job, are something I am pretty sure I breathe a lot of. And while it's true that ...

A very good friend has confirmed that she still prefers Cosmopolitan magazine to reading this blog, even in spite of the likely role it wil...

Needless to say, I've been using public transportation ever since I first got interested in the common man. And, rest assured, most bus...

Sometimes I feel like I've been waiting forever for the new communism to come out. That's going to be the one where everyone gets f...

For some, this will be a repost of something Blogger ate two weeks ago. -- JRB The guys from the Jersey Shore bring back memories of juni...

Because there's really nothing entertaining about me, on a given day, after any o'clock AM, the whole PM side of things can look pr...

Lately I've been thinking about the general, so-called "dominant" culture as something of a disaster for interpersonal relatio...

At one level, you can watch how the cast of the Jersey Shore interact with each other. In what ways do they try to tell each other what to...

Even where professionalization filters some anti-social tendencies out, it's only doing so for the purpose of capital accumulation. The...

Funny you should mention it, US foreign policy is a lot like the boys who go clubbing on the Jersey Shore . Both begin with the premise th...