Review of Karl Marx: Man and Fighter by Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen

Man and Fighter is the subtitle of Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen’s biography of Karl Marx. It is also readers’ first clue that the work is something unique, something that transcends the triviality of biography. [...]

Socialism and Marijuana

Most of the European states are girding for a summer of working-class discontent. The French Prime Minster has warned that “there is a risk of the revolution” in his country. In the United States, notwithstanding the bourgeoisie’s campaign of lies presenting the crisis as a result of the working class “living beyond its means” [...]

Poverty affects mental development

The Wired Science blog reports on a new study that links childhood poverty with impaired cognitive development. Bad news for the 1.4 billion people worldwide who live on less than $1.25 a day (according to the World Bank), not to mention the hundreds of millions of proletarians in the west who struggle to survive [...]