Theory and the battle of ideas

consumption

Too little but also too much

“Private property”, wrote Marx, “has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — when it exists for us as capital, or when it is directly possessed, eaten, drunk, worn, inhabited, etc…”

Much of socialist effort, within capitalist society, involves supporting working-class struggles to “have” more within this society, to limit the gap between workers and the rich.

Feminist Five

The Feminist Five

In the days before International Women ’s Day 2015, Chinese authorities arrested five women — Wei Tingting, Zheng Churan, Li Maizi, Wu Rongrong and Wang Man — for planning to hand out stickers challenging sexual harassment on public transport across China. They were detained for 37 days. Over the course of their detainment, the five were subjected to violent interrogations, denied important medication and medical treatment, and were routinely harassed and humiliated.

Connolly graphic

Connolly's Marxism, part three: Socialism and religion

Part of a series of articles on Connolly: workersliberty.org/connolly

Perhaps upon no point are the doctrines of Socialism so much misunderstood, and so much misrepresented, as in their relation to Religion. When driven into a corner upon every other point at issue; when from the point of view of economics, of politics, or of morality, he is worsted in argument, this question of Religion invariably forms the final entrenchment of the enemy of Socialism — especially in Ireland.

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