Capitalism

The question of why the American proletariat, that vast army of wage slaves, should find itself marching under the banner of a billionaire whose every breath is a testament to the most vulgar forms of capitalism, is one that demands the most rigorous materialist analysis. It is not a question of “why” in the abstract, but of how the specific contradictions of American capitalism have produced this …

The Environmental Protection Agency’s revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding on February 13, 2026, represents a textbook example of how the capitalist state functions as the executive committee of the ruling class. In this case, the ruling class—comprised of fossil fuel corporations, their political allies, and the financial aristocracy—has once again demonstrated that its primary concern is …