🌹Socialist Night School: Capitalism and Class Struggle

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.” – Karl Marx

This history is the history of class struggle. To understand the class struggle is to understand the fundamental conflict within capitalism, between capitalists and workers, and the means to move beyond it. It keeps our hope for a better world from becoming sentimental and anemic and empowers it with the means for fundamental change. Without an understanding of class struggle, socialists have no political program outside of a moral stance that the current system is unjust. But with that understanding lies the power for putting the wheels of history back into motion.

Readings

The ABCs of Capitalism – Capitalism and Class Struggle