China is home to 700 million workers. Those who hate capitalism must be able to look them in the face and call them—without caveat, hesitation or hypocrisy—our siblings in chains, our comrades in struggle, our world’s grandest hope for a new beginning.
To win socialism, we will need to build a force as powerful as the political and ideological institutions of the capitalist class.
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Anti-capitalists are often accused of a double standard: you hate the system, but want to enjoy its benefits. The latest to employ this supposed gotcha is none other than
The attempt to apply socialist ideas without consideration of the movement's historic practice—and the way that practice can best be applied in contemporary contexts—is among the worst, and most frequently committed, errors socialists can fall into.
Women today have achieved formal equality in most spheres of life. They have much greater choice about what to do with their lives. But they are still a long way from being equal to men, and even further from liberation.
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot.
Residents of Darwin’s largest homelessness shelter were evicted by the Northern Territory government on 12 October, and relocated to Batchelor, a town 100 kilometres away.
China is home to 700 million workers. Those who hate capitalism must be able to look them in the face and call them—without caveat, hesitation or hypocrisy—our siblings in chains, our comrades in struggle, our world’s grandest hope for a new beginning.
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