Democracy and America
In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville a French aristocrat, published a report on his journey in the United States titled Democracy in America. The following year the supporters of Andrew Jackson held the...
View ArticleProtest to Occupation: From Capitalist Democracy to Self-Determination
Many political pundits of various media institutions were quick to demand the Occupy Movement declare a list of grievances at its founding. Though not immediately, and not uniformly, a set of demands...
View ArticleFighting for Socialism in a Backward Liberal Democracy
Friends around the world and here in the United States often ask why the CPUSA does not push a vote for its own candidates, or others on the left, instead of emphasizing the need to back Democrats so...
View ArticleLenin and Democracy in America
Socialist Principles and Their Emergence Under Capitalism If I may speak for the US Left for a moment -- I believe we are agreed that we are for a socialist society. The signature distinction between...
View ArticleStudy Guides to Capital
Study Guides to Capital from Marxists.org Volume 1http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/guide/index.htmVolume 2http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1885-c2/guide/index.htmVolume...
View ArticleCapital by a Freirean Method
Introduction Capital, Volume 1 Karl Marx’s “Capital, Volume 1”, first published in 1867, is the most prominent part of a project that Marx begun in the 1840s. Volumes 2, 3 and 4 were published after...
View ArticleSACP Communist University
Communist University Generic Courses The list below is linked to sets of texts for use in self-education study circles. This list will be added to, gradually, until there is a sufficient resource for...
View ArticleDeng Xiaoping Theory and the Historical Destiny of Socialism
Tremendous changes have taken place in the history of mankind during the twentieth century. In the first half of the century socialism shocked the world with its great successes over large areas of...
View ArticleSelected Marx-Engels Study Guides
Study Guides for works of Marx and Engels These guides are designed to be used for group study. While asking questions which aim to stimulate discussion, we do not pretend to give you the answers....
View ArticleThe revival of Russian communism
via John Rummel China.org.cn, December 8, 2011 It is fifty years since Yuri Gagarin took mankind to the heavens, and twenty since the collapse of the Soviet Union. These events played a decisive role...
View ArticleFrederick Engels on Dühringian vs. Marxian Socialism: Production
In the antepenultimate chapter of his book Anti-Dühring Engels explains the differences between the "socialism" espoused by Professor Eugen Dühring and the socialism of Karl Marx and himself. Dühring...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Invisible Terrorists
BERLIN -- "Ten murders traced to neo-Nazi terrorists!" More and more ugly facts splashed through the German media, with echoes around the world. Politicians from the "respectable" parties expressed...
View ArticleOccupy 1871 -- Karl Marx -- The Civil War In France
Occupy, 1871...Karl Marx: The civil war in FranceKarl Marx, 1871: The civil war in Francehttp://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm
View ArticleMultimedia Introduction to the Communist Manifesto
Dear all,Happy New Year! via Carl Davidson and Zach Robinson The presentation at the link below brings video and graphic arts together with moving songs and speeches by Woody Guthrie, Michael...
View ArticleLetter from a Birmingham Jail
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to...
View ArticleThe Economics of Inequality
Lets summarize the evidence on rising inequality found in the latest research, which is abundant because of the high level of interest among both economists and policy makers and the public. The...
View ArticleThe US Economic Situation and the 2012 elections
This article is taken from a report to National Board, CPUSA February 2, 2011 Summary of U.S. Economy High unemployment and slow growth are still the dominant features of the US economy. Growth...
View ArticleGetting off capitalism’s treadmill
Which is a better metaphor to describe the lives of U.S. working people under capitalism: an escalator or a treadmill? At one time one could argue with some evidence that an ascending escalator was an...
View ArticleMaking change by looking at the world as it is: Marxist methodology 101
In this 33-minute video, CPUSA Chair Sam Webb presents foundations of Marxist methodology: How to make change and win millions to socialism in the American political, social and economic framework....
View ArticleBehind the Scenes: The Secret NATO Report on Afghanistan
The secret NATO report, "State of the Taliban 2012," commissioned by the US and NATO was never supposed to see the light of day. Unfortunately for the US war party it was leaked to the press and the...
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