Politics in the Zeros

Speigel interviews David Harvey, Marxist and social theorist, on cities, and how urban dwellers in totality not the proletariat will become the catalysts for social change, that urban class warfare may come to the cities. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why should a Marxist be concerned about major cities instead of the working class these days? Harvey : [...]

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Andy Newman at Socialist Unity in the UK posits the question – has the Left gotten lost? SU posted the above image of the Glorious Chairman in his peice and it didn’t take Harry’s Place long to respond. Here’s one possible answer: Anyone claiming to be on the Left who posts propaganda pictures romanticizing the [...]

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In a detailed post showing serious understanding of Marxism, Gary North presents the basic tenets of Marxism then shows how Obama isn’t even slightly Marxist. He also traces Obama’s docility and compliance to corporate power back to the early 1990′s when he and Michelle were both disbarred. North believes there is a smoking gun there. [...]

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“Someone has to be the bloodhound.” Social Democrat Gustav Noske uttered these words in 1919 before organizing the right-wing death squads that killed Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknicht, two revolutionary former leaders of the very same German Social Democratic Party Noske belonged to. Almost a century later, some on the left have once again taken [...]

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By Christian Wright I like this article, and I am glad it is written. The American left barely exists. The self-consciously “anti-imperialist” American left, in a country of 300 million people, can probably be housed in its entirety in one of our smaller to mid-sized sports areas. Its influence is marginal, but unfortunately this rarely [...]

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This is an excerpt of an interview conducted by Andrew Sernatinger (A.S.) with Pham Binh (P.B.) of Occupy Wall Street for Solidarity’s Web zine. A.S.: Where is the Occupy movement going now, especially with general elections on the horizon? David Graeber, the anarchist anthropologist, has shrugged off concerns that the movement is toast now that [...]

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Northstar is running a thoughtful series titled on The U.S. Left and the Audacity of SYRIZA: an Online Roundtable on the success of Syriza in Greece and what Occupy and the hard left can learn from them. The North Star’s name is a conscious reference to the The North Star network set up by Peter Camejo [...]

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It’s a fun poster. Yet socialists have been predicting the imminent end of capitalism for, oh, about 150 years now and it has yet to happen. Like the T-1000 in Terminator II which reassembled itself after being seemingly destroyed, capitalism can also instantly morph into new forms. This is something  socialism and communism, with their [...]

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Open letter from the People’s Library regarding Operation Book Bomb Tuscon.  Dear Friends and Allies of The People’s Library, I am writing to update you on our most recent campaign and to ask for your assistance. As hopefully you have already heard The People’s Library in solidarity with Occupy Tucson recently launched an action called Operation [...]

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The socialist left is calcified and bound to tradition. Everything is analyzed (endlessly) in terms of what Saint Karl of Marx would have done. Socialist Webzine’s response to Paul D’Amato by Pham Binh on why the socialist left has been unable to join in with or react coherently to Occupy is instructive. Look, these are [...]

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