The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Karl Marx
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Socialists Need To Fight For Economic Change — Not Just Another Version Of Capitalism
Broadly felt problems with capitalism – rising inequality, stagnating wages and severe instability – have led to major global political and cultural shifts. But what does socialism actually mean?
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Act Out! [158] - May Day is American: Know Your History & Why May 1st Matters
A special episode dedicated to the past that built our present that'll dictate our future. We look at the upcoming bicentenary of Karl Marx's birthday, then dive deep into May 1st – International Workers' Day.
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Exposing the Trade In Services Agreement: Free Pass For Multinationals to Run Wild
The TISA rules, whose secret draft text was made public last month by Wikileaks, assist the expansion of financial multinationals into other nations by prohibiting new regulations on them.
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Occupy was Right: Capitalism Has Failed the World. So What's Next?
One of the slogans of the Occupy movement was "capitalism isn't working." Now, in an epic, groundbreaking new book, French economist Thomas Piketty explains why the movement was right.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Occupy Neoliberalism: Mad as Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore
Once people come to see that there is less to lose by acting, they are ready to be mobilized.
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On Vampires, Past and Present
18th-century political wits routinely compared vampires to financiers and local bigwigs, not to mention heads of church and state.