Not rewarding virtue, talent, worthiness or hard work

  Jeff Bezos got nearly $300,000 to start a small online bookstore that was statistically unlikely to succeed (most small businesses fail within their first years). Elon Musk acquired several thousands of dollars in his first projects, and Tesla often gets subsidies in hundreds of millions of dollars from the American government. In stark contrast,

The Principles of Communism – Friedrich Engels

Originally posted on Lyle Hausman:
1. What is communism? Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat. 2. What is the proletariat? The proletariat is that class in society which lives entirely from the sale of its labor and does not draw profit from any kind of capital, whose sole…

International Proletariat

Originally posted on Children of the Revolution:
It must be acknowledged that although the working class, by definition, includes all of those who don’t own the means of production, their material conditions are relative and vary greatly. An American worker who is given $10 USD per hour and can afford a meal with every 30…

Gang Fascism: How Capital Weaponizes the Social Ills It Creates

Originally posted on Left of Left:
By Rainer Shea   In?The Peasant War in Germany, Friedrich Engels wrote: The lumpenproletariat, this scum of the decaying elements of all classes, which establishes headquarters in all the big cities, is the worst of all possible allies. It is an absolutely venal, an absolutely brazen crew. If the French workers,…