Engels on the State and on America The following excerpt comes from a larger narrative written by Frederick Engels in 1891, on the occasion of the 20th anniversery of the Paris Commune. It was published as a split Introduction/Postscript to Karl Marx's The Civil War in France, itself reissued for t...

The following excerpt is from Section II to The Collapse of the Second International by V.I. Lenin. It was first written and published in 1915. The title refers to the great schism which occured in the Second Socialist International, a powerful transnational organization representing virtually all ...

This little pamphlet by Engels, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, is probably the second most widely read "work" of modern socialism, right behind the Manifesto. It served as a popular primer, which nevertheless introduced the philosophical and political origins of modern Socialism. It began its li...

Voices: Franz Fanon (1925-1961) The Peasant Wars are over (for the present) and all is lost... but how can such a loss be forever? It is not possible, as long as the conditions which created them remain unchanged. Instead, a period of deep reaction has dawned... and with it an amazing desert of tho...

Originally posted on 11/16/2008 Potholes... I am not kidding... Unemployment, by the old method of calculation, has already topped 10%. By early next year, it will be above 15%. 60 million people are now estimated to be without health-care coverage of any type, and upwards of 5 million people will s...

The Forest is a Devil OCTOBER 7, 2017 “What poet will give us the metaphors of this new language?” Gaston Bachelard “And what next? Armaments piling up like an accumulating catastrophe, mass neurosis, nations like mad dogs. All this seems gratuitous, horrible, cosmic to such people, unaware of the c...

Indeed, to a world hegemon like the United States, any renitent foreign government that refuses to place itself in the role of vassal becomes “a dangerous regime,” which must be eliminated. Accordingly, allowing pro-independence North Korea to develop the means to more effectively defend itself agai...

An Imaginary Conversation.... A modern fellow of genus Homo protests his innocence. "I don't work because I worked much harder before", says he. "I labored for ten years at a crap job earning $30,000 per year and that earned me the right to live in miserable conditions in which the loss of my job w...

The original Bell is up and running- at least at this moment. Strange?

Would be nice to salvage those archives- some have been saved here some have not it seems.

Thanks for what you have done here Kid.

Saving the archives of this site is like preserving valuable pieces of history- keeping the memory alive.