Articles by Phil Gasper
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Capitalism and Alienation
Phil Gasper – International Socialist Review,
29 Nov 2010
Capitalism creates a society that robs most people of their creative potential: Capitalism is a system that endlessly promises people happy and self-fulfilled lives. In the United States this vision even has a name: the American Dream. But when we look around us, reality falls far short…. One of Marx’s main claims in the 1844 Manuscripts is that for most people most of the time, work is a frustrating, unpleasant experience. That’s something that most of us would agree with. In fact it’s such a commonplace that there are endless popular songs about waiting for the weekend or Saturday night to arrive. There’s even a national restaurant chain named for the relief people feel when they get out of work at the end of the week. (By contrast, no one has opened an eatery named “TGI Monday.”)
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Phil Gasper – Socialist Worker,
4 Dec 2009
The author, editor of a comprehensive edition of the Communist Manifesto, contrasts the so-called socialist regimes of Eastern Europe 20 years ago with the principles at the heart of the socialism movement historically.IT’S 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, the event that came to symbolize the collapse of the […]
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Phil Gasper,
22 Jul 2009
Marx’s ideas are back–and beginning to be attacked in the mainstream media. LAST FALL, when the depth of the economic crisis in the U.S. and around the world started to become abundantly clear, articles began to appear in mainstream media sources around the world talking about the return of Karl Marx. Time magazine even put […]
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