Seeing the root of the failure of the  approaches to the study of society in their implicit (or explicit) acceptance of the unreconciled antinomy of subject and object of knowledge. A genuine way out is attainable only through a radical dissolution of that antinomy itself by recognizing the dialectical unity of subject [...]

“As a matter of fact, the independence of trade unions in the class sense, in their relations to the bourgeois state can, in the present conditions, be assured only by a completely revolutionary leadership…”

Leon Trotsky
1940

(The manuscript of the following article was found in Trotsky’s desk. Obviously, it was by no [...]

This collection of essays  of personal reflection and journey through the world of Mike Yates from the early 1950s to the present explorehis collection of essaya explore how a person’s class “position,” life experience, and interaction with the dominant capitalist culture shapes family, jobs, work life, personal choices, attitudes towards [...]

Stand up, all victims of oppression
For the tyrants fear your might
Dont cling so hard to your possessions
For you have nothing, if you have no rights
Let racist ignorance be ended
For respect makes the empires fall
Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all

Chorus:
So come brothers and sisters
For the struggle carries [...]

Gramsci and hegemony

Antonio Gramsci is an important figure in the history of Marxist theory. While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided a rigorous analysis of capital at the social and economic levels – particularly showing how capital antagonises the working class and gives rise to crisis – Gramsci supplemented this with [...]

“Communism is for us not a stable state which is to be established, an ideal to which reality will have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from premises now in existence” – Marx.
By Bertell Ollman
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As [...]

A spectre is haunting capitalism. It is the spectre of socialism for the 21st century. Increasingly, the characteristics of this spectre are becoming clear, and we are able to see enough to understand what it is not. The only thing that is not clear at this point is whether the spectre is [...]

Bourgeois and Proletarians (1)
The history of all hitherto existing society[2] is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master[3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open [...]

by Michael A. Lebowitz
With the introduction of the UN Human Development Reports and the
development of the Human Development Index (published annually by the UNDP
since 1990), much-needed attention was directed to measures specifically related to
the welfare of human beings rather than to statistics on income and production. In
particular, levels of health and education were added to [...]

Dialectics is a tool to understand the way things are and the way things change. Understanding dialectics is as easy as 1 – 2 – 3.

One–Every thing (every object and every process) is made of opposing forces/opposing sides.

Two–Gradual changes lead to turning points, where one opposite overcomes the other.

Three–Change [...]