Class is integral to capitalism, the former its defining structure, the latter the directed purpose of a societal-historical process of wealth concentration whose intended purpose is systemic ...

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” These words from WB Yeats encapsulate our current political impasse. Whereas in Yeats’ time the worst may have been ...

Why do some voters vote against their own interests? Marxists called this problem “False Consciousness,” the idea that workers often act against their own interests. For instance, instead of ...

The hunt for consciousness seems all-important and insignificant at the same time. It is all-important because consciousness—the state of being aware—gives us every experience we will ever have. It ...

In 2004, Thomas Frank published an insightful book titled What’s the Matter With Kansas? that documented how the working class abandoned its class interests to wage culture war. The proletarians ...