Tag: workers-power

Big Brother, Meet the Working Class: Who Actually Rules Under Socialism?

Capitalist democracy, while appearing politically equitable, safeguards bourgeois interests by leaving the means of production in elite hands. The proletarian revolution aims to dismantle this class dominance, yet it often gives rise to a new set of tensions within the ruling apparatus. Historical examples from Lenin's Soviet Union to Mao's China show that the transfer of power must be constantly defended against bureaucratic detachment. Yugoslavia's self-management experiment illustrates the struggle for genuine worker control, revealing that even radical reforms can’t bridge gaps between individual workplace democracy and broader economic coordination. Ultimately, socialism must evolve toward a society where its ruling structures diminish as proletarian power matures.

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The Coup Didn’t Come From Nowhere: Niger, Base 101, and the Empire Inside the State

BBC framed Niger’s August 29 Base 101 uprising as a story about mutinous soldiers and a frightening weapons cache. The deeper record reveals something far more consequential: a fractured special-operations apparatus, credible evidence of Bazoum-linked and foreign contacts, an inherited Western security system, and a state still fighting to reclaim control over its military, uranium, and foreign relations. As France and the United States adapt to lost bases through smaller footprints, partner forces, and strategic networks, Niger is building alternative relationships through the AES, Russia, and Algeria. The coup didn’t come from nowhere—and neither did the empire trying to survive its retreat.

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We Built the Master: Marx and the World That Rules Its Makers

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Marx discovers a contradiction that will haunt the whole development of his critique of capitalism: workers build an expanding world of wealth, machinery, knowledge and social power that returns to rule them as capital. This review follows that insight from wages and estranged labour through private property, colonial history, slavery, money, communism, Hegel and revolutionary humanism. It argues that the manuscripts are neither immature philosophy nor finished Marxism, but a breakthrough under pressure—one already forcing “Man” into history and asking the question that still matters: who controls humanity’s accumulated powers?

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