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The God That Failed (1950)
Book Review from the June-July 1950 issue of The Western Socialist The God That Failed edited by Richard Crossman [Harper & Brother] Six (presumably) wise men, tending ...
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Trump’s Economist Advisors Seeing Red Everywhere (2018)
From the December 2018 issue of The Socialist Standard The word ‘socialism’ is more attractive than scary these days—and that has the White House worried. Two hundred ...
Archives, Capitalism, Economics, Socialism
A TV Program: The Sanity of Socialism
ARCHIVE: This is the script of a television program produced by members of our party and aired in Boston in 1975, reproduced from the journal of the ...
Law and Order in the U.S.A. (1968)
From the December 1968 issue of the Socialist Standard A member of the World Socialist Party of the US paints a somewhat frightening picture of politics in ...
Vietnam and the Anti-war Movement (1966)
From the September 1966 issue of the Socialist Standard Vietnam will one day take its place beside Hiroshima and Auschwitz as an example of a time when ...
A Rose by Any Other Name (1954)
From the May-June 1954 issue of the Western Socialist We are all “socialists” now. Let us witness the parade: The Churchill Tory socialists, the French Radical Socialists, the ...
The Theoretical System of Karl Marx (1968)
Book Review from the 1968 – number 3 issue of The Western Socialist The Theoretical System of Karl Marx by Louis B. Boudin, Monthly Review Press, ...
The Yom Kippur War (1973)
From the 1973 – number 6 issue of The Western Socialist There are several ways of looking at a problem, depending upon one’s point of view. Take ...
Marxism in the USA (1968)
Book Review from the December 1968 issue of the Socialist Standard Marxian Socialism in the United States, by Daniel Bell, Princeton University Press. 17s. 6d. This ...
Can the Tea Party Save the American Dream? (2010)
From the December 2010 issue of the Socialist Standard The right-wing Tea Party movement is, according to some commentators, turning into a mass, ‘grassroots’ movement and revolutionising ...