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#WSWS #SEP #ICFI The inescapable and momentous responsibility that history imposes on the international working class is the forcible expropriation of capitalist private property and the establishment of a worldwide planned economy.
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"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time."-Marx/Engels
1/ Engels on the philosophical ideas, the 'kingdom of reason', that inspired and prepared the French Revolution: "superstition, injustice, privilege, oppression, were to be superseded by eternal truth, eternal Right, equality based on Nature and the inalienable rights of man. We know today that
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
1/ Engels on the philosophical ideas, the 'kingdom of reason', that inspired and prepared the French Revolution: "superstition, injustice, privilege, oppression, were to be superseded by eternal truth, eternal Right, equality based on Nature and the inalienable rights of man. We know today that
1/ Marx: 'Critique of the Gotha Program' It is "in general a mistake to make a fuss about distribution. Any distribution whatever is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves," which is a "feature of the mode of production itself."
December 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
1/ Marx: 'Critique of the Gotha Program' It is "in general a mistake to make a fuss about distribution. Any distribution whatever is only a consequence of the distribution of the conditions of production themselves," which is a "feature of the mode of production itself."
Marx (1859): " One cannot judge a period of [revolutionary] transformation by its consciousness, but this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the [property] relations of production."
November 30, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Marx (1859): " One cannot judge a period of [revolutionary] transformation by its consciousness, but this consciousness must be explained from the contradictions of material life, from the conflict existing between the social forces of production and the [property] relations of production."
1/ Tom Scripps on X: 'The sole feasible programme of climate action is the expropriation of the super-rich through world socialist revolution. In Marx’s words in Volume Three of Capital, written 160 years ago, the freedom represented by socialism: "can only consist in socialised man, the associated
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
1/ Tom Scripps on X: 'The sole feasible programme of climate action is the expropriation of the super-rich through world socialist revolution. In Marx’s words in Volume Three of Capital, written 160 years ago, the freedom represented by socialism: "can only consist in socialised man, the associated
1/ Engels: "We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of [antagonistic] classes not only will have ceased to be a necessity, but will become a positive hindrance to production. They will fall as inevitably as they once arose."
November 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
1/ Engels: "We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of [antagonistic] classes not only will have ceased to be a necessity, but will become a positive hindrance to production. They will fall as inevitably as they once arose."
Once the barrier of capitalist private property is abolished, a socialist economic plan on a world basis will establish the conditions necessary to provide cooperative humanity with economic abundance: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. That's socialist equality.
November 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Once the barrier of capitalist private property is abolished, a socialist economic plan on a world basis will establish the conditions necessary to provide cooperative humanity with economic abundance: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. That's socialist equality.
This conflict [between capital and labor] can be resolved only through the expropriation of the [capitalist] oligarchy. The wealth hoarded by the billionaires must be seized and the major corporations, banks and industries placed under public ownership and democratic workers’ control.--A. Damon WSWS
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This conflict [between capital and labor] can be resolved only through the expropriation of the [capitalist] oligarchy. The wealth hoarded by the billionaires must be seized and the major corporations, banks and industries placed under public ownership and democratic workers’ control.--A. Damon WSWS
The manufacture and deployment of nuclear weapons of war is an expression of the irrationality of competitive capitalism and the anarchic system of capitalist nation-states. The abolition of these weapons presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property and the capitalist mode of production.
October 30, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The manufacture and deployment of nuclear weapons of war is an expression of the irrationality of competitive capitalism and the anarchic system of capitalist nation-states. The abolition of these weapons presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property and the capitalist mode of production.
"The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the struggle against capitalism and for socialism. The defense of democracy requires the expropriation of the financial oligarchy and the transformation of the corporations and banks into public utilities under democratic workers’ control."--WSWS
October 27, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"The fight against fascism cannot be separated from the struggle against capitalism and for socialism. The defense of democracy requires the expropriation of the financial oligarchy and the transformation of the corporations and banks into public utilities under democratic workers’ control."--WSWS
Socialism is the free application of human will and intelligence in the cooperative formulation and implementation of a world-wide economic plan, unrestricted by the barriers erected by the private ownership and exploitation of the instruments, methods and materials of economic production.
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Socialism is the free application of human will and intelligence in the cooperative formulation and implementation of a world-wide economic plan, unrestricted by the barriers erected by the private ownership and exploitation of the instruments, methods and materials of economic production.
The abolition of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property in the conditions of economic production and the dissolution of the nation-state system.
October 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The abolition of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) presupposes the abolition of capitalist private property in the conditions of economic production and the dissolution of the nation-state system.
"Politics must be adapted to the high development of the productive forces, [and] the paralyzing of these productive forces by the capitalist forms of property. The productive forces [under capitalism] cannot develop any longer." Trotsky 1938 'The Political Backwardness of American Workers'
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 AM
"Politics must be adapted to the high development of the productive forces, [and] the paralyzing of these productive forces by the capitalist forms of property. The productive forces [under capitalism] cannot develop any longer." Trotsky 1938 'The Political Backwardness of American Workers'
The abolition of borders between nations and peoples presupposes the abolition of private ownership of the methods and materials employed in economic production, and the unfettered employment of human intelligence in the cooperative development and establishment of an international economic plan.
September 28, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The abolition of borders between nations and peoples presupposes the abolition of private ownership of the methods and materials employed in economic production, and the unfettered employment of human intelligence in the cooperative development and establishment of an international economic plan.
The abolition of war presupposes the abolition of private property in the means, methods, instruments and materials of economic production.
September 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The abolition of war presupposes the abolition of private property in the means, methods, instruments and materials of economic production.
No short-term or long-term solution to the crisis that confronts humanity, the accelerating destruction of the economic productive forces of society, in military, political and economic warfare, is possible short of the world-wide abolition of capitalist private property.
September 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
No short-term or long-term solution to the crisis that confronts humanity, the accelerating destruction of the economic productive forces of society, in military, political and economic warfare, is possible short of the world-wide abolition of capitalist private property.
Tariffs in a capitalist economy, a form of economic warfare, represent a destructive and reactionary assault by the private ownership of the conditions of economic production on the already developed productive forces of society.
August 19, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Tariffs in a capitalist economy, a form of economic warfare, represent a destructive and reactionary assault by the private ownership of the conditions of economic production on the already developed productive forces of society.
1/ John Steinbeck, 'The Grapes of Wrath': "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away."
August 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
1/ John Steinbeck, 'The Grapes of Wrath': "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away."
Marx (1875): "from the fact that labor depends on nature it follows that the man who possesses no other property than his labor power must, in all conditions of [class] society and culture, be the slave of other men, who have made themselves the owners of the material conditions of labor."
August 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Marx (1875): "from the fact that labor depends on nature it follows that the man who possesses no other property than his labor power must, in all conditions of [class] society and culture, be the slave of other men, who have made themselves the owners of the material conditions of labor."
Private property, which introduces competition into economic production, is a barrier that obstructs the progressive expansion of economically productive cooperation from the scale of the individual enterprise to the scale of a world-wide economic plan.
July 9, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Private property, which introduces competition into economic production, is a barrier that obstructs the progressive expansion of economically productive cooperation from the scale of the individual enterprise to the scale of a world-wide economic plan.
"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time."-Marx/Engels
June 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time."-Marx/Engels
The crisis of capitalism, its preparations for world war, its economic inequality, its anti-immigrant nationalism, its destruction of the environment, its ruination of education and health care, its private prisons and militarized police, is rooted in private property and the anarchy of production.
June 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
The crisis of capitalism, its preparations for world war, its economic inequality, its anti-immigrant nationalism, its destruction of the environment, its ruination of education and health care, its private prisons and militarized police, is rooted in private property and the anarchy of production.
" The specter of a third socialist party, with a mass base, that advocates not merely free bus rides but also nationalizations and expropriations, haunts the corporate-financial oligarchy."--David North WSWS
June 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
" The specter of a third socialist party, with a mass base, that advocates not merely free bus rides but also nationalizations and expropriations, haunts the corporate-financial oligarchy."--David North WSWS
The abolition of war is possible only on the basis of the world-wide abolition of private property in the conditions of economic production, which would result in the dissolution of the separate capitalist nation-states, and the international and cooperative implementation of a planned economy.
June 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The abolition of war is possible only on the basis of the world-wide abolition of private property in the conditions of economic production, which would result in the dissolution of the separate capitalist nation-states, and the international and cooperative implementation of a planned economy.
"The source of the contradiction between what is and what should be is a global economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, and the irrational division of the world into rival nation-states." Statement of Principles of the Socialist Equality Party 2008
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
"The source of the contradiction between what is and what should be is a global economic system based on private ownership of the means of production, and the irrational division of the world into rival nation-states." Statement of Principles of the Socialist Equality Party 2008
Rosa Luxemburg (1918): "The first duty of a real workers’ government is to declare by means of a series of decrees the most important means of production to be national property and place them under the control of society."
May 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Rosa Luxemburg (1918): "The first duty of a real workers’ government is to declare by means of a series of decrees the most important means of production to be national property and place them under the control of society."