RUTHLESS
CRITICISM
“If we have no
business with the construction of the future or with organizing it for
all time, there can still be no doubt about the task confronting us at
present: the ruthless criticism of the existing order, ruthless in that
it will shrink neither from its own discoveries, nor from conflict with
the powers that be.” — Karl Marx
What is the Free Market Economy?
The subject sounds at first glance like the most natural thing in the world
Theses on Work and Wealth
Work in capitalism makes the workers poor and always enriches the wealthy - this is the necessary result of a mode of production based on property
Unemployment: A Devastating Judgment on a SocietyNot because people do not find work, but because people need work - although society does not need this work at all
Labor – Time That Pays Money
The “working world” neither intends to organize work so as to make it interesting, comfortable and as short as possible, nor does it guarantee a good life
On the “Standard of Living Like Never Before” of the Modern Proletariat
The "consumer economy" does not serve the consumer, but rather the consumer serves the economy
What is Poverty?
Capitalism requires massive amounts of it
The Strike at AEG: the Hardest Workers’ Struggle in Decades
Why the fight against the capitalist economy is necessary, but the fight for jobs is impossible
Progress Today: Work Longer and Earn Less
Why wage sacrifices lead to ever more wage losses
Resistance to Mass Layoffs: Why Union Deals Are Not About "Jobs"
The employees allow themselves to be exploited better - and ask that it may happen in protection of their own interests
The Free Market Fairy Tale that Profits Create Jobs
"Layoffs despite profits!"- Why "despite"?
Small Business — “Our” Problem ChildCapital in need wants our concern and sympathy
Do CEOs get paid too much?Who gets how much and why in the free market economy
On the Highly Praised Accomplishments of Filthy Lucre
Material wealth is equated with a quantity of money, acting as the “representative” of the material which constitutes “real” wealth as opposed to the many kinds of useful things
Crisis Management: Politics and Economics in an Imperialist Democracy
The accumulation of too much wealth in relation to the purpose of accumulating more of it
“Predators” Attack Capitalism!Enron, Worldcom, Xerox ... perversions of capitalism?
Interest Rates Cut in AmericaOnce again crisis is fought
Financial Crisis - A Lesson on the Character, Performance and Power of Finance CapitalNot good evidence for this mode of production
No More Proletariat, Nowhere?Then who does the work that enriches the entreprenuers instead of themselves?
Wage Reduction Made in the USAAuto capital eliminates its social dead weight
That's Capitalism
A leaflet distributed at a strike