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		<title>Socialism  And The Environment &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction In recent years the environment has become a major political issue.  And rightly so, because a serious environmental crisis really does exist.  The air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat have all become contaminated to a greater or lesser extent.  Ecology – the branch of biology that studies the relationships of living organisms to their environment –is important, as it is concerned with explaining exactly what has been happening and what is likely to happen if present trends continue. Since the publication of the World Socialist Movement&#8217;s pamphlet, Ecology and Socialism, of 1990 environmental problems facing the planet have got much worse.  We said then that attempts to solve those problems within capitalism would meet with failure, and that is precisely what has happened.  Recent research on increasing environmental degradation has painted an alarming picture of the likely future if the profit system continues to hold sway.  Voices claiming that the proper use of market forces will solve the problem can still be heard, but as time goes on the emerging facts of what is happening serve only to contradict those voices. In this pamphlet we start with a brief review of the development of Earth [...]


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		<title>Which Way, Workers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Socialist, July, 1947 Throughout the world today, working men and women are planning, discussing, organizing in trade unions, demonstrating and supporting political groups, all with a view to improving their social conditions. In some countries, they have had the right to vote for many years, and have been instrumental in the rise to power of Conservative, Liberal, Democratic, and Labor Governments. In all highly organized countries, political parties depend upon workers votes and support to achieve electoral success. After all these years of effort and aspiration, an assessment of their present social conditions should be timely. What is the lot of workers &#8211; the majority of society &#8211; today in 1947? Are they not still dependent upon wages and salaries (necessarily inadequate) with poverty their constant neighbor? Is the problem of &#8220;getting by,&#8221; of unease and insecurity, not more acute than ever? Is their childhood and old-age not marked with deeper frustration and lack of hope than ever before? And are they not nowadays called upon with greater frequency to undergo the perils of war in order to ensure that their national masters may continue to rule and exploit? Why all this? Let us look closer into [...]


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		<title>Socialism: Utopian and Scientific</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Excerpts from a talk at Cooper Union, N.Y.C. November 23, 1973. This was originally printed in the Western Socialist, No.1, 1974. The talk was delivered by World Socialist Party comrade Charles P. Davis] Our subject this evening is &#8220;Socialism &#8211; Utopian and Scientific.&#8221; Most relevant in the examination of this subject is history. Not the history you have studied at school nor the history with which current literature is so preoccupied. Currently a history titled &#8220;History as Mirror&#8221; comparing the fourteenth century and its horrible conditions with the twentieth century that we know contributes very little to understanding with a statement such as: &#8220;Chivalry was to the landowners ideology, their politics, their system &#8211; what democracy is to us or Marxism is to the Communists.&#8221; The speakers that I have listened to at Cooper Union with their declaimers of being apolitical and their talks of historical developments with a collection of &#8220;we,&#8221; &#8220;our,&#8221; and &#8220;us,&#8221; spoke as if the world were made of one homogeneous non-political mass of mankind rather than those who own little but the ability to work for wages. Such speakers never impressed me as understanding their subjects. As to being apolitical, that is some kind of [...]


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		<title>Materialist Conception of History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down through the ages there have been various interpretations of history. For example, there are the theories which see in history the working out and realization of some sort of divine plan &#8211; like Hegel&#8217;s philosophy of history, which sees the whole historical development of society as the realization stage by stage of the so-called Absolute Idea. Again, there are the various theories which see history as moving through &#8220;cycles,&#8221; every civilization passing by some inescapable necessity through the cycle of rise, plentitude of power and decline &#8211; as in Spengler&#8217;s Decline of the West or Toynbee&#8217;s Studies in History. These are idealist theories and socialists are opposed to them. The idealism of such theories lies in the fact that they see the laws of development of society as a &#8220;fate&#8221; imposed upon society from outside, so that men and women are mere instruments of fate, the tools of external necessity. If such theories are accepted, then we are driven to fatalism. If what takes place is in the hands of God, or is decreed by fate, or follows by some iron necessity &#8211; it makes little difference in practice which you say &#8211; then it follows there is little [...]


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		<title>I&#8217;m Prepared To Give My Life For This Or Any Country</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Satire from ONN] As a true patriot, I would gladly die in battle defending my homeland. I love my country more than my own life. But I would also be more than willing to give my last breath in the name of, say, Mexico, Panama, Japan, or the Czech Republic. The most honorable thing a man can do is lay down his life for his country. Or another country. The important thing is that it&#8217;s a country. Like those heroes who spilled their blood fighting for independence against the British Empire, I, too, would forfeit everything to win for my countrymen the right to be governed by politicians in our own capital instead of in a capital located further away. Nothing is more profound or more sacred than to die for one&#8217;s country, an adjacent country, or some other, foreign country. The truth is, there are a lot of countries, each of which is the most noble cause possible to die for. I only regret that I have but one life to lose for but one country. I would not hesitate to give my life for or against any other noble nation. Come to think of it, I would even [...]


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		<title>This is Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The ranks of low-wage working families increased by 350,000 between 2002 and 2006, raising their numbers to nearly 9.6 million, or more than one in four of the nation&#8217;s working families with children. The report by the Working Poor Families Project, an advocacy group that analyzed census data, defined low-wage families as those earning less than double the poverty rate. For a family of four, that would have been an annual income of $41,228 or less in 2006. The report&#8217;s author, Brandon G. Roberts, attributed the increase to the growth in low-paying jobs, from health-care aides to cashiers, that form an increasing share of the nation&#8217;s service-based economy. Many of those families struggle to pay for basics, such as health care, food and housing, a battle that Roberts said has grown more acute in the past two years as the economy has stagnated. &#8220;The stark reality is that too many American families have been in economic crisis long before this year,&#8221; said Roberts, director of the non-partisan Working Poor Families Project, which advocates for state policies to improve the lives of low-income working families. &#8220;Even before this year&#8217;s economic crisis, the conditions for working families were getting worse, not better.&#8221; [...]


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		<title>The Function of Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Money &#8211; its origins, its nature, and its functions &#8211; is a subject laden with superstition and wild theory. Even those who are supposed to know all that is worth knowing about it, the economics experts, frequently find themselves tangled in the intricacies of their explanations. To the nonprofessional  students of Marxian economics the confusions are based primarily on the fact that the training to which the &#8220;legitimate&#8221; theorists are subjected is geared to the needs of capitalism. To understand the real nature of capitalism, in general, and money, in particular, would inhibit ones effectiveness as an expert and a hired analyst of a society such as capitalism. It is better for those who own the means of wealth production and who hire the experts that inhibiting factors in their expertise be not encouraged. Somewhere in my studies when a boy in school I learned that money was &#8220;invented&#8221; by some ruler or other in the periphery of Ancient Greece. The statement is made bluntly and, as I remember, with no equivocation and is probably widely believed today. The truth of the matter is that money was not invented by anybody but developed at a time ante-dating the particular [...]


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		<title>Fighting the Bosses Fights</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Dawoud Ameen, a former Iraqi soldier, lay in bed, his shattered legs splayed before him, worrying about the rent for his family of five. Mr. Ameen’s legs were shredded by shrapnel from a roadside bomb in September 2006 and now, like many wounded members of the Iraqi security forces, he is deeply in debt and struggling to survive. For now, he gets by on $125 a month brought to him by members of his old army unit, charity and whatever his wife, Jinan, can beg from her relatives. But he worries that he could lose even that meager monthly stipend.&#8221; (New York Times, 1 July) RD No related posts.


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		<title>PDX &#8211; 4/27 &#8211; Meet the WSP</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/04/pdx-427-meet-the-wsp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WSP, FN Brill, will be speaking at the Portland pre-Mayday event at the IWW&#8217;s Liberty Hall (311 N. Ivy) this Sunday April 27th at 7:30pm. No related posts.


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		<title>NYC &#8211; 4/26 &#8211; Meet the WSP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can meet WSP members at our table at the 5th Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair, Saturday April 26 between 11:00 am–6:00 pm. The fair is located on the Long Island University  &#8211; Brooklyn Campus at Flatbush &#38; DeKalb Avenues. No related posts.


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