from  ages 4 to 5 and up

Dialectics Defined
Everything changes, and Dialectics for Kids explains how. If you are old enough to read, you can understand change. It’s so simple even grown-ups can understand.
A – Snow builds up and up and up on a mountain . . . until there’s an
Avalanche
B [...]

How to Study the Communist Future
Inside the Capitalist Present
(With an Appendix on “The Dance of the Dialectic”)
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“The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals a goose from off the common,
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from under the goose”.
(15th century, English, Anonymous)
The commons, of course, [...]

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Have you ever tried to hop on a car while it was still moving? How different was it from entering a car that was stationary? Would you have been able to get into the moving car if you were blindfolded? Would you have been able to do it if [...]

The School is coming to an end. Though we do not decide Party policies in such schools, yet these discussions have an important role in the process of their formulation. In this respect, quite a few important questions have been raised and discussed here. In 1994 Party School I had expressed some ideas on the [...]

For the last 7 or 8 years the Party CC has been making efforts to cultivate the habit of study in the Party and turn the system of Party schools into an integral part of the Party body. Selected batches of cadres were enrolled in central Party schools and state and other Party committees too [...]

A young reporter asked a leading capitalist how he made his fortune. “It was really quite simple”, the capitalist answered. I bought an apple for 5 cents, spent the evening polishing it, and sold it the next day for 10 cents. With this I bought two apples, spent the evening polishing them,and [...]

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According to Marxist theory, a socialist revolution requires a class conscious working class. Consequently, most socialist political activity is directed one way or another to raising workers’ consciousness. Yet relatively few Marxists have gone beyond theoretical analysis to studying the class consciousness of real workers. In part, this is due to [...]

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The American humorist, James Thurber, tells the story of a friend who asked him, “How is your wife?” to which Thurber replied, “Compared to what?” Most judgments in our lives involve comparisons of one sort or another, but comparisons to what? The comparison we choose, and we often do so unconsciously, will decisively affect the [...]

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.
Let us first consider the question from the point of view of scientific knowledge. It might appear that there are no essential methodological [...]

A meeting that was worth it
AT the end of the Globalization and Development event, with the presences of more than 1,500 economists, outstanding scientific figures and representatives of international organizations meeting in Havana, I received a letter and a document from Atilio Boron, a Doctor of Political Science, senior professor of political and social theory, [...]