Day: November 12, 2022

THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852

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THE PRESENTATION OF THE QUESTION BY MARX IN 1852* “In 1907, Mehring, in the magazine Neue Zeit134 (Vol. XXV, 2, p. 164), published extracts from Marx’s letter to Weydemeyer dated March 5, 1852. This letter, among other things, contains the following remarkable observation:“And now as to myself, no credit is due to me for discovering the existence of classes in modern society or the struggle between them. Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes. What…

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ගැටළුව පවතින්නේ අප සතුව ඇති සම්පත් පිළිබඳවද? නැතහොත් වෙනත් තැනකද?

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka අප සෞරග්‍රහ මණ්ඩලයේ දුරස්ථම වස්තුවක් වන ප්ලූටෝ වෙත ගවේෂණ යානයක් යැවීමටත්, ස්වයංක්‍රීයව ධාවනය වන මෝටර් රථ පවා නිපදවීමටත් තරම් මොළයක් අපට තිබුනද, අප එදිනෙදා මුහුණ දෙන ප්‍රශ්න විසඳා ගැනීමේ බලයක් අපට නැති බව ඔබට කවදා හෝ වැටහී තිබේද? එය කෙතරම් සත්‍යයක්ද? නවීන විද්‍යාවෙන් ලබාදී ඇති දේ ඇත්තෙන්ම විශ්මයජනකය නමුත් මිනිසුන්ට පාරේ ජීවත් වීමට බල කිරීම නැවැත්වීමට ප්‍රමාණවත් නිවාස ලබා දීමට හෝ අපගේ තරුණයින්ට යහපත් රැකියා ලබා දීමට හෝ අපට නොහැකිය. ගැටළුව පවතින්නේ අප සතුව ඇති සම්පත් පිළිබඳවද? නැතහොත් වෙනත් තැනකද? Forbesහි පළ කරන ලද ලිපියකට අනුව, ධනවත්…

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நீங்கள் ஏன் சோசலிஸ்ட் ஆக வேண்டும்?

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka நமது சூரியக் குடும்பத்தின் மிகத் தொலைதூரப் பொருட்களில் ஒன்றான புளூட்டோவுக்கு ஆய்வுக் கருவியை அனுப்புவதற்கும், சுயமாக ஓட்டும் கார்களைக் கூட கண்டுபிடிப்பதற்கும் எங்களுக்கு மூளை இருக்கிறது என்பது எப்போதாவது உங்களுக்குத் தோன்றியிருக்கிறதா? இன்னும் நம் அன்றாட பிரச்சனைகளை தீர்க்க நாம் சக்தியற்று இருக்கிறோம்? அது எவ்வளவு உண்மை? நவீன அறிவியலின் அதிசயங்கள் உண்மையிலேயே ஆச்சரியமானவை, ஆனால் மக்கள் தெருவில் வாழ நிர்ப்பந்திக்கப்படுவதைத் தடுக்க போதுமான வீடுகளை எங்களால் வழங்க முடியாது; அல்லது நமது இளைஞர்களுக்கு கண்ணியமான வேலைகளை வழங்குங்கள். எங்களிடம் உள்ள வளங்களில் சிக்கல் உள்ளதா அல்லது பிரச்சனை வேறு எங்காவது உள்ளதா? Forbes செய்த ஒரு கட்டுரையின்படி, அவர்கள் ஒரு வருடத்திற்கு முன்பு இருந்ததை விட பணக்காரர்களாக இருந்த 1,000 பில்லியனர்களை கண்டுபிடித்துள்ளனர். கூறியது போல், “கடந்த ஆண்டில் 236…

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Why you should become a socialist?

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By Raju Prabath Lankaloka Has it ever occurred to you that we have the brains to send a probe to Pluto, one of the most distant objects in our solar system, and even invent self-driving cars, and yet we are powerless to solve our everyday problems? How true is that? The wonders of modern science are truly amazing, but we can’t provide enough homes to stop people from being forced to live on the street or provide decent jobs for our young people. Do we have an issue with the…

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Turkey: Stop union-busting now!

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Turkey: Stop union-busting now! Workers at the Philip Morris factory in Izmir, Turkey, are paid less than the poverty threshold — despite the company earning massive profits. The workers’ incomes are dwindling as a result of the country’s economic turmoil. Furthermore, there is discrimination between permanent and subcontracted workers, though they perform the same tasks and use the same machines. Recently, almost all the workers joined the union — but the company then sacked 124 of them in a brazen attempt at union-busting.  While the workers conduct daily protests in front…

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The failure of reforms – The lessons from Brazil

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(This article was originally written in march 2021) *The failure of reforms – The lessons from Brazil* Participation of left parties in bourgeoisie elections to bring about change in the lives of working class and poor people throughout the world is one of the most contested issues. It has been since the times of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels during the first International in the 1800s. Socialists and Social Democratic Parties in the Second International debated this issue as well, including the Bolshevik Party debating whether to participate in the…

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