“Towards a better understanding of the world, in order to change it.” Ideas are social and artificial national borders cannot contain them, as we are presently seeing. When the World Socialist Movement (WSM) talk about revolution we are not using the word as a recruitment gimmick. The sort of world we want there will be…

El cinturón bíblico de Estados Unidos puede estar regocijándose por la decisión de la CorteSuprema de restringir los abortos de “niños por nacer”, pero siempre ha habido una notablefalta de preocupación expresada por los niños vivos que mueren innecesariamente en todo elmundo por causas relacionadas con el hambre. Según UNICEF, 40 millones de niños en…

Hace cien años se publicó este año la obra más notoria en alabanza de la manipulación políticadesde El príncipe —¿Qué hacer?,de Lenin. Crimen… y ¿Castigo? ¿Qué hay que hacer de Lenin? es un lado de una polémica entre los socialdemócratas rusos enel exilio a finales del siglo 19. El movimiento socialdemócrata ruso surgió cuando una…

(Reprinted from The Western Socialist, January-February, 1942) If ever there was a term whose constant use is rivalled only by an equally constant misuse, that term is Human Nature. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, and politician—all consider themselves qualified, if not expert, to discuss the whys and wherefores of human behaviour. And yet, in spite…

From the January 1905 issue of the Socialist Standard Genossen! Der Socialistischen Partei von Grossbritanien ist vom Sekretaer der britischen Sektion des Amsterdamer Kongresses eine Zuschrift zugegangen, worin unsere Partei unter anderem befragt wird, ob sie geneigt waere, an einer gerneinschaftlichen Beratung teilzunehmen, da beabsichtigt waere, ein Nationales Comité einzusetzen, welches sich mit der Erledigung von Kongress…

Abra cualquier libro de texto sobre economía. El concepto de “escasez” pronto aparece, tal vez incluso en la primera página. Y leerás que hay recursos escasos y deseos ilimitados, y que la economía es el estudio de las decisiones que las personas toman para lidiar con esta situación. El concepto de “escasez” utilizado en estas…

EducationEducation is an integral part of any social system. Feudal society required little of the peasants by way of education. The Industrial Revolution demanded more – workers who could make, tend and repair machines, and some who could keep records and books. In the 20th century the process was continued – mass education was fashioned…

AppendixHousingHousing is one problem of capitalism which has been a constant source of difficulty and is part and parcel of working class life. Few members of our class escape some aspect of housing trouble. Whether it is the complete crisis of homelessness, or the stress involved in keeping our homes through paying rent or repaying a…

Being Practical Socialists have tended to refrain from extensive speculation about the precise organization of a future socialist system but the above descriptions of what is possible demonstrates quite clearly that socialists are not planning an unachievable Utopia. Capitalism has made abundance a possibility, and made workable the “Communistic abolition of buying and selling”. We…

Steady-State Socialism Another important point not to overlook is that we are seeking a “steady-state” economy or “zero-growth” which corresponds to what Marx called “simple reproduction” – a situation where human needs were in balance with the resources needed to satisfy them. Such a society would already have decided, according to its own criteria and…