The “End of History” is over. The idea that Western liberal democracy was the “final form of human government” has been exposed as bluster: the old order is crumbling before our eyes. Angry anti-politics have arisen to threaten political establishments across the world. Elites have fallen into hysteria, blaming voters, “populism”, Putin, Facebook… anyone but…

BYANTTI-VEIKKO LABBAS From Shadows in Paradise to Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki’s films show ordinary Finns in minimalist, near-timeless settings. But they’re also a response to changes in working-class life since the 1980s, as consumerist values edge out Finland’s social model. SETH ACKERMAN I am 60 percent existentialist, 20 percent communist, 10 percent ecological universal leftism, 10 percent anarchism,…

On Revolutionary Morality — Ho Chi Minh A look at a classic text by the great Vietnamese revolutionary leader. Written in 1958 Ho Chi Minh’s On Revolutionary Morality looks in very clear and concise terms at the need for revolutionary Communists to combat what he terms the “three enemies” of the revolution, to fight against…

INTRODUCTION Perhaps one socialist in a thousandhas ever read any of Marx’s economic writings,and of a thousand anti-Marxistsnot even one has read Marx.1 1. MARX’S FINAL LABORS AND THEIR POLITICAL RELEVANCE TODAY For more than a decade now, prestigious newspapers and journals with a wide readership have been describing Karl Marx as a far-sighted theorist…

“The 20th century has become an important milestone in freeing humanity from the shackles of colonialism. We seem to have put an end to economic gangsterism and the exploitation of other people’s labor and wealth. The transition to the era of détente during the Cold War allowed the United States and the USSR to lay…