Hi Dayne, I don't mean to be picky. All of us have come into these discussions from different starting points. My question is why the issue should still be put that Lenin came around to agree with

I think that a serious component of this will be the midterm outcomes AS WELL AS the not so remote possibility that Biden opts to be a one term president and defers to Harris. With the midterms,

Spoiler alert: my answer would be "no." But the question is not as ridiculous or irrelevant as it may at first appear. In chapter 25 of Capital, Marx describes relative surplus population as "the

Reuther also told the story in his 1955 testimony before the Joint Congressional Subcommittee Hearings on Automation and Technological Chang:

I was interested in the topic, but by the time I was ready to turn my attention to it, there was an accumulation of messages. I was left behind and perhaps others were, too. It’s OK to wait a day

Dear Quote Investigator: An article on the Economist website recently told an extraordinary anecdote about automation. The rivals in the tale were two titans in the world of automobile manufacturing

I loved the discussion, this is one of the lists' stronger elements: good back and forth with educated responses, not just throwing out opinions but responses based on debates in related fields,

Oh, wait. Was this sarcasm and it went right over my head?

The mysteries, so called, of the capitalist con job must be unravelled. However long it takes. Mar was not a marxist merely a mighty brain dedicated to healing the oppressed from the yoke of thor

However, there will be many who will refuse to vote for the Democratic Party nonetheless. What kind of choice is it when the choice is fascist or semi-fascist. A vote for the Democratic Party is a

Interesting. There is no compulsion to read messages in the thread. I am wondering what metric the couple people use to determine "too long"? Perhaps another couple of people find the thread

I KNOW this is a pollyanna response -- but I think the majority (maybe as many as 60 percent) of the country has NOT been taken in by Trump's lies and sees him for what he is. Unlike 2020 when the

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Thanks Richard for your work choosing and sharing these brief selections from Claudin's history of "The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform". The sample you have provided reinforces

Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed by Eric Toussaint, Nathan Legrand CADTM, Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt, January 5,

Trump's age and health is a consideration, but he is still a likely contender for 2024, for reasons we all know too well. What's more, I think he stands a good chance of being reelected. If he does

I am sorry for the repetition of my post. I will adhere to the norm of less than 5 posts per day. Vijaya Kumar Marla

That is exactly the point I was trying to make. Marx had pointed out in Grundrisse that when machines perform all the tasks of production, without any value addition by human labour, surplus value

When Abu Zubaydah was apprehended in Pakistan in 2002, the George W. Bush administration falsely characterized him as chief of operations for al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden’s number three man. For the

Russia’s rising young communists pose an unexpected new threat to Putin’s grip Robyn Dixon Washington Post October 6,