The War Against The Poor | by Frances Fox Piven

The War Against The Poor | by Frances Fox Piven

Occupy Wall Street and the Politics of Financial Morality We’ve been at war for decades now — not just in Afghanistan or Iraq, but right here at home. Domestically, it’s been a war against the poor, but if you hadn’t noticed, that’s not surprising. You wouldn’t...

Marxism, morality, and human nature | by Phil Gasper

Marx rejected bourgeois morality in favor of an ethics of human emancipation, says Phil Gasper ACCORDING TO the German socialist and philosopher Karl Vörlander writing in the early twentieth century, “The moment anyone started to talk to Marx about morality, he would...