Alright, here’s the schedule of actions and educational events going on in the city this weekend. Everyone is highly encouraged to attend, DC YDS activists have been involved in planning and will be participating in solidarity with other groups.
Protest the G20 Summit! Nov 14th & 15th in DC
The G20 is holding a summit on […]
A United Nations human rights team has found “convincing evidence” that at least 90 civilians — including 60 children — were killed in US air strikes on a village in western Afghanistan on Thursday night. The Afghan government estimates puts the number of killed in the incident at 95 civilians. Mohammad Iqbal Safi, […]
For those in the war torn Caucasus this has been a week of unfathomable turmoil. It has been a week filled with images of displaced peoples, and the instruments of modern warfare doing what they do best, dispensing death. This has been a week that can only serve to remind us of the […]
Activist Agenda Proposal: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) Solidarity
Since 2001, the Florida-based Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their partner the Student Farmworker Alliance (SFA) have worked tirelessly to fight for the rights of immigrants and tomato pickers. Their battle for an extra penny per pound of picked tomatos. Although the battles have been hard […]
Activist Agenda Proposal: Access to and Quality of Education
Horace Mann once said, “Education, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.” Democratic socialists must confront the offensive inequality that plagues our country’s K-12 public education systems if we are to close […]
Jobs with Justice is a growing network of local coalitions of labor, student, community and faith-biased organizations committed to struggle with working people for social justice. Jobs with Justice Coalitions exist in well over 40 cities and 30 states and have continued to grow in recent years. They recently hosted their annual convention in […]
This article is the final installment of a four-part series. Enjoy!
The Alienation of Capitalists? How Capital Victimizes the Capitalists
As touched upon previously, in the Communist Manifesto Marx spends far more time than do modern anti-capitalists praising the achievements of capitalism. The bourgeoisie, in Marx’s estimation, has progressed humanity far further than any other ruling […]
This article is the third installment of a four-part series. Come back next week to read Part IV. Enjoy!
The Alienation of Labor and the Humanism of Marx
In his early writings Karl Marx spends an enormous amount of time examining the effects of capitalism on the individual. Throughout his 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts in […]
This article is the second installment of a four-part series. Come back next week to read Part III. Enjoy!
How “Free Enterprise” Enslaves the Individual
An Overview of the Nature of the Capitalist Mode of Production
In order to discuss what real socialism is we must first examine the injustice, exploitation and alienation that permeates throughout […]
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i. An Introduction
Winston Churchill’s famous diatribe, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries,” is firmly entrenched in the psyche of the […]
