Culture

While the holidays are supposed to be a time to gather together with family members and reflect not only on the accomplishments of the past year but on the possibilities of the future, to many it is a crushing reminder of just how much this brutal system we live under can make our lives...
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Jack London who was born on this day in 1876 is the subject of an article in this month’s Socialist Standard. Older editions of our journal have also examined London’s oeuvre, including The...
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Is this issue of “Happy Holiday” vs. “Merry Christmas” really an issue? I mean, it wasn’t last year, or the year before that, and while new issues spring up all the time, I don’t think anything has changed that would somehow make “Merry Christmas” an issue. While many Christians, and right wing media pundits, are...
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Monday marked the beginning of a New Jersey bear hunt with the intention of thinning the population. Over 5,000 hunters gathered for the 6-day hunt to thin a bear population estimated at 1,600 to 3,200 bears. With an increase in the number of bears, and the encroachment of human development into their habitat, the...
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This last weekend held the annual Academy awards, a night were the best cinema performances from the previous year are recognized. Movies, actors and actresses, directors, and even members of the production staffs are recognized for their efforts. While I enjoy going to a good movie as much as just about anyone else, I feel...
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Michael Moore’s latest documentary film-Fahrenheit 911-grossed $80 million in its first week. Despite initial attempts to stop the film’s distribution and screening and right-wing claims that the film is inaccurate, it has been seen by sell-out cinema audiences and won all manner of applause from US ‘liberals’ and the Left everywhere. Moore has clearly made...
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The commercial society in which we live, which is called capitalism, is widely regarded as the most acceptable form of society. Colleges and Universities offer no alternative to it, even though they recognize that modern society was Itself an alternative to a previous form. Respectable public figures scorn all suggestions of change, even though...
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