https://socialistworker.org/2004-1/487/487_09_Class.php
CLASS IS commonly viewed as something based upon income level: upper, middle, lower. The other popular idea is that we are all basically "middle class"--with perhaps a minority "underclass" of poor people. |
http://anarchism.pageabode.com/pjproudhon/the-malthusians
Dr. Malthus, an economist, an Englishman, once wrote the following words:
“A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders…”[1]
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work? But what is a fair day's wages, and what is a fair day's work?
~~ Posted for Collectivist ~~
- Excerpt - Writing the Communist Manifesto - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toeib1Xd4Pk&feature=youtu.be
and
- Movie Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVTDoZLssg8&feature=youtu.be
And a Movie review:
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/02/young-karl-marx-raoul-peck-engels
https://www.workers.org/2020/10/51840/
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
After police murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Ky., demonstrators across the U.S. called for defunding police departments. The Center for Popular Democracy Action, in a June 10 report, estimates $100 billion is spent each year in the U.S. on policing — between 20% to 45% of municipal budgets. (https://populardemocracy.org/news-and-publications/congress-must-divest-billion-dollar-police-budget-and-invest-public-education)
As activists target state and municipal funding sources, it is important to shine the spotlight on often hidden corporate police funding. A popular street chant against the police has been “Who do they protect? Who do they serve?”
Another question must also be asked: Who protects the police?
After the first round of the French presidential elections, several liberal commentators condemned the defeated leftist candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon for refusing to endorse the centrist Emmanuel Macron. His decision was portrayed as a failure to oppose the far-right Front National, and it was argued that many of his supporters were likely to vote for Marine Le Pen in the second round. Comparisons were drawn with the US presidential elections and the alleged failure of Bernie Sanders supporters to back Hilary Clinton over Donald Trump.
Following are articles on philanthropy/charity and how they obscure the violence of capitalism:
They Offer Charity Instead of Justice ~~ Paul D'Amato
and
Philanthropy: the Capitalist Art of Deception ~~ Susan Rosenthal
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A couple of articles on the liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army 75 years ago (before Jan 2020)
http://www.pcp.pt/en/75-years-liberation-auschwitz-soviet-army
~~ by the Portuguese Communist Party ~~
Today we celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Soviet Army's liberation of the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, where more than one million and one hundred thousand human beings were systematically murdered in the gas chambers, by hunger and disease, in the shootings and under torture.
(Or, the Age of Disintegration)
Umair Haque - https://eand.co/what-happens-when-people-find-out-capitalism-was-a-lie-78137aca7072
It’s hardly just America. In Britain, there is the spectacular folly of Brexit. Australia is burning, even while the government refuses to take climate change seriously. The world is destabilizing, fracturing, unravelling, coming undone. Why? And what does the future hold?
The truth, my friends, may be grimmer — and yet a little more hopeful, in a strange and funny way — than you might think. Let me start at the beginning.
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlet/socialism-and-religion/
~~ Thanks to Red Robbo for this contribution: "October 12 is Freethought Day so the theme of Socialism and Religion seems appropriate. Banish gods from the skies and capitalists from the earth!"
