by Daniel Krähmer | Nov 11, 2011
In my opinion, when people opine that the OWS movement is about–or should be about–the airing of this particular grievance or that it must bandy this or that particular demand–they have missed the point. Of course, collectively, OWS evinces a force...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 6, 2012
PHIL GASPER argues that Marx’s theory of history is vital for understanding social change, but it doesn’t claim that socialism is inevitable KARL MARX’S key idea, in the words of his collaborator Frederick Engels, was that “the production of the immediate material...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 6, 2012
Are recessions better for the left or right, asks Phil Gasper? The most fundamental argument in favor of socialism is that capitalism is an irrational system that over the long term cannot meet the basic needs of the majority of the population because of its tendency...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 6, 2012
Capitalism creates a society that robs most people of their creative potential, says Phil Gasper I’M SURE it’s not often that the ideas of Karl Marx are discussed in the prestigious pages of the British Journal of Dermatology, but an article published there in January...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 6, 2012
Capitalism creates a society that robs most people of their creative potential, says Phil Gasper PHIL GASPER responds to a supporter of capitalism In the last issue of the ISR (#74), I wrote a column about Marx’s concept of alienation and why work—which Marx claims...