Reader’s correspondence: Reply to Libretti on inequality
Even under socialism, doctors and lawyers will receive higher salaries than custodians, postal workers, cashiers, and fast food workers.
Open source socialism: Harnessing innovation for progressive change
The impulse for large-scale, government-led democratic socialist reforms could produce the qualitative transformation Marx counted on.
Dreaming of Brexit
Globalization is unstoppable. Even war will only produce a pause in the process. But its shape, boundaries, and direction are all subject to initiative.
Thoughts on Greece, Syriza and its left critics, Part 2
While Greece is a tiny country and Syriza a new party of the left, their success in overcoming the current crisis would give fresh momentum to people in Europe and woldwide.
Thoughts on Greek crisis and in defense of Syriza, Part 1
The current crisis in Greece and the Eurozone is fluid and far from settled.
Reformers, radicals, and challenging Wall Street
Gretchen Morgenson isn't a household name, and probably never will be. But on Wall Street, everybody knows her.
What is "inclusive prosperity?"
President's Obama's State of the Union address included a welcome centerpiece proposal taxing finance capital and the rich, and giving it to the middle class and poor.
Myths of capitalism: the myth of scarcity
We are faced with a choice of who will pay to rebuild our infrastructure, educate our children, and transition to a green economy.
Communists in convention: What our mission is and isn't
A section of the keynote to the Communist Party USA 30th National Convention, June 13-15, 2014. It was delivered on the convention's opening day by outgoing National Chair Sam Webb.
Economics is not morality play, but politics is
For socialist and progressive working-class forces, breaking out of marginalization is the key political challenge of our time.
