Author: Zoltan Zigedy (Greg Godels)

Recently liberals have taken offense to the claim that the capitalist economy recovered from The Great Depression with the military build-up to World War II and not from the effects of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. While...

The Wall Street Journal began the year (1-2-09) with a survey of the “Doomsayers Who Got It Right” in 2008. In the past, they relied upon the cheerleaders of Wall Street to forecast a bright future with only a few...

Disenchantment is setting in… Among those who describe themselves as “progressives” (an umbrella-term re-invented to avoid the pejoration of “liberal” and to encompass liberals and the non-Marxist...

Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol in 1843, just two years after Karl Marx completed his doctoral dissertation and well before the thinking of Marx and Engels matured to shape a scathing critique of capitalism. Yet on an...

While most of us have been riveted upon the economic miseries and policy responses of the crisis in the US, the disease has spread widely through the world. For most, first notice of a problem began with mounting housing...

Recently, I received via e-mail an audio recording of a discussion of an article of mine posted on this website in March of this year, entitled “The Crisis and Speculative Capitalism” (MLT, March 14, 2008). I was honored that a...

Monday, September 29, 2008 may well deserve to be proclaimed a people’s national holiday. For the first time in memory, the popular will of millions trumped the resolute diktat of the US ruling class. For a solid week, our...

With capitalist crisis worsening and spreading from our shores to all other countries, an industry of analyses and nostrums has emerged. Given the near complete domination of market idolatry and neo-liberal dogma among those who...

What does it mean when a Communist leader sets out to publicly eviscerate Marxism? This is the question that looms over a recent blog on the web magazine of the Communist Party USA, Political Affairs. On August 5, 2008,...

Strange times. Awash in Obama-mania, the leftist political opposition spins an imperialist foreign policy and corporate-friendly domestic policies into the second-coming of FDR. Leave it to the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal...

On Tuesday, July 8, 2008 Barack Obama had his Sista Souljah moment before a crowd in the Atlanta suburb of Powder Springs, Georgia. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton had famously sent a message to white,...

It’s taken a while, but the extraordinary dimensions of the economic crisis have begun to deflate the deeply-ingrained faith in US capitalism. Predictably, the pundits, academic economists, and the bourgeois politicians...