Having recently presented Classical Marxist theory, then Leninist strategy, and last time Bolshevik practice, this essay moves on to critically assess Leninist…
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Beyond the Feminism-or-Family Dichotomy The relationship between feminism, the family, and capitalism has become one of the most contentious theoretical and political…
Missouri’s Republican lawmakers did exactly what their corporate patrons demanded in 2017 and rammed through legislation intended to prevent working people from…
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In his essay “Between Concealed Hatred and Open Quarrelling,” Nenad Kecmanović, a Bosnian Serb political scientist and former member of Bosnia and…
Climate overheating is a story, and human survival depends on how we tell that story. It is a story about the ruling…
I was disappointed to learn the Building for Power campaign, put forward by the Green New Deal Campaign Commission of the Democratic…
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On 20 July, thousands of young people attempted to march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament. They carried placards, shouted slogans, and demanded…
Two major stories regarding the United States and Israel in recent days represent profound watershed moments in the history of the relationship…
How we view the world and each other is often influenced by learned patterns ingrained in the social hierarchies we are forced…
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“We who think about politics all the time rarely have a good handle on what’s going on in the lives and minds…
Outside theology, the term “Antichrist” has a broader, more secular, and highly descriptive sense. It names a powerful, grossly malevolent person who…
Section 219 of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has received much less attention than it deserves. This initiative would transform…
When was the last time you wrote something by hand? Was it a stylus signature at a checkout stand, a kitchen calendar…
After the Israeli Parliament passed the law in 2018 referred to as a “breach of the duty of loyalty,” the Ministry of…
When the Office of the United States Trade Representative recently announced proposed tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 global…
Despite the raving reviews for the new, and apparently monumental, film The Odyssey, there is something that much of the mainstream media…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
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When word came down that USAID was being dismantled in Nicaragua, I was sorting through old documents amid the chaos of the…
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Yesterday marked one month since the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, where celebrities, former presidents, first ladies, and various other elites…
A recent Wall Street Journal headline screamed “Big Banks’ Profits Surge After a Red-Hot Quarter on Wall Street.” The Big Five of…
At the World Inequality Conference in June, the renowned economist Thomas Piketty and a team of 45 researchers from the World Inequality…
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As a journalist and political prisoner, the entire “heavy” burden of Room 3 in Ward B10 of Silivri Prison, which I had…
The history of warfare shows that conflicts end either with a clear victory by one side or through negotiations when both face…
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He has never been able to accept it, but even after winning the 2024 US presidential elections, Donald Trump continued to fixate…
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There are just over three weeks left before Abelardo De La Espriella takes office as Colombia’s new president, despite the numerous allegations…
Introduction: From Military Occupation to Structural Influence Imperial power has not disappeared. Wars, occupations, and military interventions remain central features of the…
When Vladimir Lenin wrote about imperialism and considered it the highest stage of capitalism, he was tracking the moment capital shifted from the space of free…
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