American Coup D'etat Parts 1 and 2 ~~ Chris Hedges and David Kucinich

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cacJawinmFU

https://www.rt.com/shows/on-contact/531779-dennis-kucinich-on-contact-part-two/

~~ posted for dmorista with introduction written by dmorista ~~

How Corporations Pumped Up CEO Pay While Their Low-Wage Workers Suffered in the Pandemic ~~ SARAH ANDERSON

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/05/14/how-corporations-pumped-up-ceo-pay-while-their-low-wage-workers-suffered-in-the-pandemic/

~~ posted for collectivist ~~

More Important than Gold, Water Should Not Be Traded on Wall Street ~~Avexnim Cojti

Two articles on the trading of water...

Communist Manifesto ~~K. Marx, F. Engels

Considered as a foundational document, presented are links to various formats of the Manifesto of the Communist Party

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

PDF version:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/Manifesto.pdf

Audio:

https://www.marxists.org/audiobooks/archive/marx-engels/communist-manifesto/index.htm

Ebook:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61

A Fair Day's Wages for a Fair Day's Work ~~F. Engels

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1881/05/07.htm

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? 

Capital and COVID: Why the Left needs disability liberation ~~ M.K. Anderson

https://mronline.org/2020/10/03/capital-and-covid-why-the-left-needs-disability-liberation/

~~ Posted for Collectivist ~~

This all could’ve gone differently. Bob Woodward revealed that Donald Trump knew in February that COVID was airborne, information both men declined to share with the rest of the us until just now. Congress was also briefed. Their only response was to adjust their investment portfolios. The rich have been given a head start to prepare, to plan for millions of deaths, and to prevent their own. In the meantime, the rest of us must work— if work is even available.

I was laid off on the first day of the Texas lockdown. I’d been on FMLA for an illness related to a disability. As Marx said in Capital, Volume I:

Suppose you were in want of an additional workman, and two were to apply, both equally well qualified in other respects, but one had lost a thumb or a forefinger, which would you engage?

The same logic applies to who gets fired first. The cripple, of course.

How The Working People Can Be Saved From The Oppression Of The Landowners And Capitalists For Ever ~~ V. Lenin

 

How The Working People Can Be Saved From The Oppression Of The Landowners And Capitalists For Ever

                           https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/mar/x09.htm

The enemies of the working people, the landowners and capitalists say that the workers and peasants cannot live without them. "If it were not for us," they say, "there would be nobody to maintain order, to give out work, and to compel people to work. If it were not for us everything would collapse, and the state would fall to pieces. We have been driven away, but chaos will bring us back again." But this sort of talk by the landowners and capitalists will not confuse, intimidate, or deceive the workers and peasants. An army needs the strictest discipline; nevertheless the class-conscious workers succeeded in uniting the peasants, succeeded in taking the old tsarist officers into their service, succeeded in building a victorious army.

Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations? ~~ By Ralph Nader

 

Why Do Americans Give Away So Much Control to Corporations?

The corporate "Borg" is sucking the ready availability of the good life, decent, secure livelihoods assured by our collective self-reliance, and the freedom to shape our future out of our political economy.

by

Ralph Nader

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/09/19/why-do-americans-give-away-so-much-control-corporations

What the Current Moment Tells Us about Revolutionary Politics

https://www.leftvoice.org/what-the-current-moment-tells-us-about-the-importance-of-revolutionary-politics

Written by

Thomas Hummel

The past three months of social unrest have highlighted the need for broad social change. But we cannot achieve a better society through a reformist approach. A revolutionary alternative is needed. 

For years, we have been hearing that anything but the most modest social democratic politics are impractical given the material realities of the present moment. According to this argument, the degree to which capitalism has a stranglehold upon our ways of thinking, the low level of struggle, and the power of the state, all make revolution look like a romantic and impractical goal. 

But in the past three months, we have seen a nationwide rebellion against the police and racism. By some estimates, it has been the largest protest movement in U.S. history. We have seen ordinary people spontaneously embrace militant tactics with street fighting across the country. Police stations have been raided and, in some cases, burned to the ground. The early days may have been the most militant, with 10,000 being arrested in the first ten days, but that militancy has sparked up again periodically, most recently in Kenosha. What does this development say about the view that we should focus on building socialism through social democratic strategy and elections within the Democratic Party?