“There is a fourth R of global capitalism. The very solution to the crisis that capital introduces — that restructuring which brings the emerging capitalist countries to the central committee — implies the right of the latter to be full members, i.e., to achieve levels of consumption and economic development equal [...]

“Today the structural crisis of capital provides the historical setting for a new revolutionary movement for social emancipation in which developments normally taking centuries would flit by like phantoms in decades or even a few years. But the force for such necessary, vital change remains with the people themselves, and rests [...]

The proletariat class, which is deprived of means of production, is forced to sell his labour as a commodity into the market to those bourgeois who grab them. In a capitalist society, those who produce commodity with the expense of their labour are deprived of appropriating the very product while those who [...]

“A process of producing rich human beings with confidence and dignity, both the people and the party will be inoculated against the infection that can prevent us from reaching the socialist goal.  That won’t be achieved, however, by a one-sided focus upon developing productive forces.  In short, we should never forget the [...]

The Battlefields Chosen by Contemporary Imperialism: Conditions for an Effective Response from the South

by Samir Amin

Part 2

The Second Wave of Peoples’ Emancipation: Will It Be a Remake of the 20th Century or Something Better?
The contemporary world is governed by oligarchies.  There are financial oligarchies in the United States, [...]

The Battlefields Chosen by Contemporary Imperialism: Conditions for an Effective Response from the South
by Samir Amin

Part 1

In the art of war, each belligerent chooses the terrain considered most advantageous for its battle for the offensive and tries to impose that terrain on its adversary, so that it is put [...]

’21st century socialism should be socialism for human development’
By Michael Lebowitz

23 May 2009
Michael Lebowitz is a Canadian Marxist economist. He is the director of the “Transformative practice and human development” program at the Caracas-based left-wing think tank, the Centro Internacional Miranda. He is professor emeritus of economics at [...]

“Capitalist triangle” is private ownership of the means of production, the exploitation of wage labourers, for the purpose of profits.
“Elementary triangle of socialism” is units of social property, social production organised by workers, for satisfaction of communal needs and purposes
By Michael A. Lebowitz

On May Day 2005, I marched with workers [...]

By Mihael A. Lebowitz
(chapter 5 of. Build It Now).. Socialism Doesn’t Drop from the Sky
Talk presented to the National Conference of Revolutionary Students for the Construction of Socialism of the XXI Century in Merida, Venezuela on 22 July 2005
Some people think you can change the world without taking power. [...]

Beyond Capital: Marx’s political economy of the working class
Karl Marx speaks to us today and that he is very relevant to the reality we face — the task of going beyond capital and building socialism for the 21st century.

By Michael A. Lebowitz
February 16, 2009 — It is well known that when Karl Marx heard [...]