ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
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How can we be “alienated” by commodities when so many people like shopping?
This week the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at how capitalism got into our heads
Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
MARX’S critique of capitalism wasn’t limited to economics. It included the way capitalism affects the way people think and behave as individuals.
Capitalist commodity production, he argued, turns everything “into alienable, vendible objects in thrall to egoistic need and huckstering. Selling is the practice of alienation.”
Commodity production and consumption magnifies the significance of an alien entity, namely money.
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