Stalin, The Poet and Life’s Choices by Gaither Stewart

by Gaither Stewart
featured writer
Dandelion Salad
The Greanville Journal (includes many photos)
August 21, 2008
“I regard class differences as contrary to Justice.” (Albert Einstein in a personal statement of his credo.)
“The Russians have proved that their only aim is really the improvement of the lot of the Russian people.” (Albert Einstein in his 1934 refusal to sign a [...]

If socialism fails: the spectre of 21st century barbarism By Ian Angus

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By Ian Angus
July 27, 2008

From the first day it appeared online, Climate and Capitalism’s masthead has carried the slogan “Ecosocialism or Barbarism: there is no third way.” We’ve been quite clear that ecosocialism is not a new theory or brand of socialism — it is socialism with Marx’s important insights on ecology restored, socialism [...]

Europe’s Roots In Social Justice: The European Idea

by Gaither Stewart
featured writer
Dandelion Salad

July 26, 2008
Without a tear in their grim eyes,
They sit at the loom, the rage of despair on their faces:
We have suffered and hunger’d long enough;
‘0ld Germany, we are weaving a shroud for thee
And weaving it with a triple curse.
We are weaving, weaving.’
(The Weaver’s Song by Heinrich Heine: the song of [...]

The Communist Bugaboo By Gaither Stewart

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By Gaither Stewart
www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE
7/4/08
Dedicated to those who continually raise the bugaboo of the Communist menace to the make-believe, hypocritical, lying and socially perfidious “American way of life”.
(Rome) I visited the tomb of Antonio Gramsci in the Poets’ Cemetery in Rome. An inconspicuous urn resting in the center of the mound contains the ashes of the [...]

Unprofessional conduct

Thanks to
Socialist Standard

SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK
Blog post
July 4, 2008
They’re still doing it. Calling the FARC rebels in Colombia “Marxist terrorists”, that is. The BBC has just done in the news about the recent freeing of the hostage Ingrid Betancourt. The Guardian has been guilty too.
See this Blog The FARC “Marxist” farce.
Last time this [...]

Advanced Imperialism: A Phase of Capitalism - A Marxist perspective

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by Carl Pinkston
Global Research
June 25, 2008
On April 26, 1917, V.I. Lenin published a major piece on imperialism titled “Imperialism – Highest Stage of Capitalism“. Lenin was able to draw from J.A. Hobson, Imperialism, and Rudolf Hilferding, Finance Capital. Lenin conducted extensive research on imperialism from wide array of writers, but he was very critical [...]