“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 [...]

By Michael A. Lebowitz
[Presentation at the launch of El Camino al Desarrollo Humano: ¿Capitalismo o Socialismo? (The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism?) at the Venezuelan International Book Fair, Filven, in Caracas on November 8, 2008. The English version of the pamphlet will be published in a forthcoming edition of Monthly Review.]
The theme of [...]

Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg and Che Guevara 
This is the Preface to Manifesto: Three Essays on How to Change the World
published by Ocean Press
If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must [...]

YOUNG people, more than anybody, are interested in the future.

Until very recently, there was discussion as to the kind of society in which we might live. Today the discussion is about whether human society will survive.

These are not dramatic sentences. One has to get used to real facts. The last thing [...]

NEWS arriving from the Danish capital paints a picture of chaos. After planning an event in which around 40,000 people were to participate, the hosts have no way of keeping their promise. Evo, who was the first of the ALBA presidents to arrive there, expressed certain profound truths emanating from [...]

If we believe in people, if we believe that the goal of a human society must be that of “ensuring overall human development,” our choice is clear: socialism or barbarism.
These concluding lines from “The Path to Human Development” appear on the back cover of one Venezuelan edition—a pocket-sized edition much like [...]

The crucial conceptual blockage that prevented this new historical moment from being seen in its proper perspective at the time can of course be traced to the symbolic “death of Marxism” identified with the collapse of the Soviet bloc. A theoretical critique that dealt with the global transformations taking place at the end of the [...]

IN the last few weeks, the current president of the United States has been striving to demonstrate that the crisis is yielding as a result of his efforts to confront the grave problem that the United States and the world inherited from his predecessor.

Nearly all economists are making reference to the [...]