By “class system” we mean the basic workplace organizations—the human relationships or “social relations”—that accomplish the production and distribution of goods and services. Some examples include the master/slave, communal village, and lord/serf organizations. Another example, the distinctive capitalist class system, entails the employer/employee organization. In the United States and in much of the world, it is now the dominant class system. Employers—a tiny minority of the population—direct and control the enterprises and employees that produce and distribute goods and services. Employers buy the labor power of employees—the population’s vast majority—and set it to work in their enterprises. Each enterprise’s output…

I usually see things pretty much the same way as Paul Krugman, but I seriously disagree with his column “Bidenomics is making China angry. That’s okay.” Krugman makes some reasonable points in the piece. Protecting our electric car industry and other green technologies is probably a good idea in order to give them some breathing space to grow and compete. It also makes sense to have productive capacity for advanced semi-conductors, so as not to be dependent on Taiwan in the event of a military conflict. But it really is not okay that our policies are making China angry. We have to…

Netanyahu needs to be stopped Just in case the Biden administration somehow fails to start Word War III in Ukraine or Taiwan, Netanyahu is doing his utmost to start it in the Middle East and he might have the best chance of succeeding. Not content with bombing five countries at the same time, Netanyahu has stepped up his attacks, breaking every diplomatic norm, including destroying hospitals and blowing up aid workers to deter aid agencies from operating in Gaza, and bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus, and committing so many other crimes against humanity, it’s impossible to count. The bombing of the Iranian…

MOSCOW, March 28 (Reuters) - Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday. Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered the deepest crisis in Russia's relations with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Speaking to Russian air force pilots, Putin said the U.S.-led military alliance had expanded eastwards towards Russia since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union but…

There was a furore on the internet yesterday as all the people who love to tell us how irrelevant Owen Jones is, wouldn’t stop talking about Owen Jones. This was because he dared walk away from the monstrosity that calls itself the Labour Party to support alternatives. Jones might have made this decision a few years after the rest of us, but he got there in the end. He posted on Twitter: “I just quit Labour after 24 years. We deserve better than the race to the bottom between Labour and the Tories. Labour want you to think there's no…