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 [...]
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Dave Buccola on Feb 19, 2012, 10:00 am 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 [...] Tags: Book Bomb, Occupy Wall Street, Operation Book Bomb Tuscon, People's Library | Category: News, Socialism | Leave a comment Bob Morris on Feb 15, 2012, 6:30 am WWMD? 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, [...] Category: Socialism | 6 comments Thomas Ware on Feb 12, 2012, 12:35 pm Today is the seventy-fifth (75th) anniversary of the United Auto Workers sit-down strike against General Motors in Flint Michigan. Category: Socialism | Leave a comment Dave Buccola on Jan 10, 2012, 1:43 pm It’s quite an exercise in arrogance when the Little Union that Can’t (Industrial Workers of the World) wants to dole out advice to the most popular and dynamic social movement we’ve seen in decades. This article, written by John Reimann of the San Francisco Bay area general membership branch of the I.W.W. illustrates just how out [...] Tags: I.W.W., labor, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, unions, Wobblies | Category: recession, Socialism | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) Dave Buccola on Dec 25, 2011, 10:00 am Zazzle button It’s that time of year where we celebrate a hodge-podge of Pagan and Christian stuff all brought together by Coca Cola in the 1930s under one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Some people hate it for the consumerism that it breeds. Others love the deep sense of humanity and [...] Thomas Ware on Dec 21, 2011, 8:24 am Yesterday NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) about the reason the Republicans blocked the two month payroll tax relief and unemployment extension. After an initial attempt at obfuscation, he finally said that the Senate’s bill didn’t go far enough with regards to the Keystone XL Pipeline.The House explicitly required the President to proceed with [...] Category: corporatism, Socialism | Comments are closed Bob Morris on Dec 6, 2011, 10:15 am The European Socialists were meeting over the weekend in Brussels. They should be full of fire, with half a billion people facing brutal austerity and a lack of leadership in the EU. But no. I walked past one room where a group of serious people were seriously discussing the serious topic of “How can we [...] Bob Morris on Aug 4, 2011, 6:45 am Colin McEnrow of the Hartford Courant sadly and finally gives up on Obama, and in doing so explains why Obama is not now and could never be a socialist. He’s not the guy I thought he was. And Bill Clinton would have had no problem going before the cameras during the recent troubles and [...] Bob Morris on Apr 24, 2011, 6:15 am The Chronicle of Higher Education There is a sense in which the whole of Marx’s writing boils down to several embarrassing questions: Why is it that the capitalist West has accumulated more resources than human history has ever witnessed, yet appears powerless to overcome poverty, starvation, exploitation, and inequality? What are the mechanisms [...] |  Get Polizeros by emailIndependent Voter NetworkArticles by Bob Morris on California and Arizona renewable energy, budget and border issues CategoriesArchives | ||||
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