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It’s become increasingly clear that the American Dream is dead.  Good riddance. Long ago Friedrich Engels identified economic mobility (said “dream” of wealth) in the US as a key barrier to class consciousness. Welcome to your waking hours, America. Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?” Marx, Engels, and Lenin insisted on the value …

In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist; in such a world a non-revolutionary pacifist is a contradiction in terms, a monstrosity.* A.J. Muste was referred to throughout the world as the “American Gandhi,” and he’s probably best known, if at all, for his leadership of the peace movement in the …