Diagnosis

Relations of Production

By "relations of production" (German: Produktionsverhältnisse), Marx and Engels meant the sum total of social relationships that peopl…

Commodity Fetishism

In the marketplace, producers and consumers perceive each other by means of the money and goods that they exchange (commodity fetishism). Commodity …

The Base and Superstructure

The Base and Superstructure The base comprises the forces and relations of production (e.g. employer-employee work conditions, the …

Fascism under Capitalism

Political scientist Dr. Lawrence Britt recently wrote an article about fascism ("Fascism Anyone?," Free Inquiry, Spring 2003, page…

Wage Slavery Defined

Wage Slavery A human owning or hiring another human as property is a great infringement on human rights. Slavery may change it…

Studying Adam Smith

Noam Chomsky: I didn't do any research at all on Smith. I just read him. There's no research. Just read it. He's pre-capitalist, a figure…