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The lost workers' revolution: Finland 1917-18

  The lost workers' revolution: Finland 1917-18 Marxist Left Review | The lost workers’ revolution: Finland 1917-18 Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918 - Revolutionary Communists of America Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918 (Pt. 1) - Revolutionary Communists of America Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918 (Pt. 2) - Revolutionary Communists of America Lessons of the Finnish Revolution of 1917–1918 (Pt. 3) - Revolutionary Communists of America
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Inequality Should Not Be the Only Rallying Cry for the Left

  Inequality Should Not Be the Only Rallying Cry for the Left For the first century of its existence, the organized left mobilized around the “labor question”: who determines the what and how of production. For years, though, the Left has abandoned this question for a concern with inequality — at its own peril. Inequality Should Not Be the Only Rallying Cry for the Left

White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality

  We’ve been here before, and we know what comes next White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality We’ve been here before, and we know what comes next: White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality | Economic Policy Institute Creating justice in a multiracial democracy | Economic Policy Institute

"The one thing that never arrives is equality." - George Orwell

  "The one thing that never arrives is equality." - George Orwell ".... one of the chief difficulties of the Socialist movement—the fact that the word “Socialism” means something quite different to a working man from what it means to a middle-class Marxist. To those who actually have the destiny of the Socialist movement in their hands, virtually everything that a manual worker means when he says “Socialism” is either irrelevant or heretical.... the manual workers in a machine civilization have certain characteristics forced upon them by the circumstances in which they live: loyalty, improvidence, generosity, hatred of privilege. It is out of these that they evolve their vision of a future society, so that the mystique of proletarian Socialism is the idea of equality. This is a very different vision from that of the middle-class Socialist who accepts Marx as his prophet—literally a prophet, a tipster who not only tells you which horse to back, but also provides the reaso...