Marxism

Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics


Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

The New McCarthyists: Fear and Smear

Michael Likosky | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics


Michael Likosky

New McCarthyists conjure "socialism," "communism," "marxism," and other "shocking labels" to drum up hate-mongering.

Why Republicans Should Back Health Care Cost Remedies

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


Stephen Herrington

Socialization of risk, a risk pool, is the very business model of private insurance for profit -- and government is simply the largest risk pool of all.

A Cause for Comedy: A Cause for Mild Alarm

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 07.06.2009 | Comedy


Jonathan Daniel Harris

Here's the concept. A bunch of idealistic flower people put down their peace pipes for one minute and decide to host a comedy show. You, the sucker, go and shell out $10 of your hard-earned scratch to watch an hour of penis jokes or something. Here's the communist part: they take the money earned from the show and give it to some not-for-profit organization!

Fear-Mongering and the 'Fox Effect'

Timothy Karr | Posted 05.28.2009 | Media


Timothy Karr

Last week, conservative factions within the RNC circulated an e-mail urging party leadership to brand as a "socialist" anyone who advocates even moderate changes to the government's role in society.

"Socialized" Medicine: Next Front in the Right's -isms Arms Race

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

For more than 75 years, conservatives have smeared progressive attempts to reform our faltering health-care system as "socialized medicine."

The Republican Party's Death Wish

Paul Jenkins | Posted 04.13.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

We have yet to hear a single realistic scenario from a top Republican that would outline how and when the country could move forward from its current meltdown.

Shameful Bankers: Time for a Revolution

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.01.2009 | Business


Paul Jenkins

While there are many victims in the colossal Ponzi scheme that is the American economy, few of these victims have not in some way been complicit.

Republicans Fiddle with Abortion While America Burns

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.

President Obama: Set Cuba Free

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.

Nepal's Political Crisis Deepens

Subhash Ghimire | Posted 02.13.2009 | World


Subhash Ghimire

More than 80% of Nepalese live in villages with very little access to health, education and other modern amenities. Lands seized by Maoists during the decade long war from 1996 to 2006 have not been returned to the owners.

Laissez-Faire Capitalism Should Be as Dead as Soviet Communism

Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business


Arianna Huffington

It's time to drive the final nail into the coffin of laissez faire capitalism. If not, the Dr. Frankensteins of the right will surely try to revive the monster and send it marauding through our economy once again.

The Short End of The Socialist Stick

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

What we have is De Gaulle-style socialism (state-funded corporations, cronyism, an overstuffed military), but without free and decent French schools, doctors and trains.

A Red President?

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The American economic sacred cow is that laissez faire wealth is tantamount to a divine right of kings, and any attempt to touch it is economic heresy.

Obama's Inverted Media Strategy Upends Homestretch Hierarchy

Ari Melber | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics


Ari Melber

It is a new, inverted media pyramid: local TV people suddenly make national news, and national TV people are irrelevant, at least momentarily.

The Crisis and "the Crisis"

Rick Ayers | Posted 10.23.2008 | Business


Rick Ayers

The question that keeps coming back to me is: why are no capitalist big-shots jumping out of windows?