Can ordinary people run society? ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/620/620_11_RunSociety.php

The Marxist View of the State ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2009/03/06/marxist-view-of-the-state

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Alienation in capitalist society ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2003-2/467/467_09_Alienation.php

(From the Meaning of Marxism)

THE TERM "alienation" in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness, of being alone and apart from others. For Marx, alienation was not a feeling or a mental condition, but an economic and social condition of class society--in particular, capitalist society.

The economics of laziness ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/630/630_08_Laziness.php

From the Meaning of Marxism Series

PAUL D'AMATO explains why a socialist society would produce a flowering of universal creativity.

Isn't socialism about conformity? ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2006-1/590/590_09_MakeSame.php

From the Meaning of Marxism Series

SOCIALISM WILL make us all like the same. This claim is, to quote the British journalist Paul Foot, "delicately stoked by the press and television of a capitalist society which is increasingly stamping sameness and conformity on its working people."

What we mean by the working class - Paul D'Amato

 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.

Charity/Philanthropy and How they Obscure the Violence of Capitalism

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

Socialism - What Will it Look Like? ~~ Paul D'Amato

 https://socialistworker.org/2004-1/495/495_09_Socialism.php

Socialism: What will it look like?

By Paul D'Amato | April 16, 2004 | Page 9

"WE KNOW what you're against. What are you for/" is a question that we socialists get a lot. Socialism was well summed up by Eugene Debs: "The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interests of all the people! That is the demand.

"The elimination of rent, interest and profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people! That is the demand. The end of...class rule, of master and slave, of ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime...That is the demand."