socialism

Does politics have a place in video games? What are the best/worst political video games ever made? Is Mario a communist sleeper agent who will one day lead the revolution against the bourgeoisie of the Mushroom Kingdom? Such…

Comebacks and remakes are all the rage right now! So it's no surprise that Socialism is making its own glam return to Western politics after having been assumed to be in the trash can of history. On What Am Politics this week, learn…

On February 3rd, 2019, a Twitter account posted a cry for help, ‘I can’t do this anymore.’ The tweet was met with words of tender support: ‘I love you’, ‘Buddy, come hangout’, and ‘What’s going on Sunny?’ There was no reply until the…

“Everything for everyone, nothing for us” – Subcomandant Marcos. The explosive growth of civil society in recent years has led to the rise of certain groups who have showed the world that real alternative is possible and certainly within…

If somebody else makes more money than you solely from the work you perform on a daily basis, you are a serf. The only time this isn’t true is if you have a real love for what you do for a living. But: At the same time, it’s clear…

I was born in a country that today doesn’t exist anymore. It was called the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany. Founded in 1949, after the Second World War, as a socialist bulwark against West Germany, it became a satellite…

Ernest Kavanagh was someone who contributed artistically to the era of revolution in Ireland  but in our history he has unfortunately been lost among names such as Pearse and Connolly. Born in Dublin city in 1884, young Ernest received…

Despite its seemingly provocative title, Michael Moore’s latest documentary, Where to Invade Next, is maybe the most deceptively innocuous piece he’s released to date. Instead of following the right-on crusader around Washington pondering…

We behave towards one another as if we are equal, but learning about others’ advantages makes us unhappy. This is Leon Festinger’s theory of social comparison. It doesn’t stop at imagined feelings of being short-changed though. Marmot’s…