The Property Question
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#WSWS #SEP #ICFI The inescapable and momentous responsibility that history imposes on the international working class is the forcible expropriation of capitalist private property and the establishment of a worldwide planned economy.
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"Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things. In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each case, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time."-Marx/Engels
1/ Fabian Winter--WSWS: "For what Marx analyzed more than 150 years ago is today becoming concretely tangible for every worker, above all through the development of AI. The productive forces have outgrown the social order within which they are confined. A technology created out of the collective
August 28, 2026 at 12:40 AM
1/ Fabian Winter--WSWS: "For what Marx analyzed more than 150 years ago is today becoming concretely tangible for every worker, above all through the development of AI. The productive forces have outgrown the social order within which they are confined. A technology created out of the collective
"Imperialist war is the outcome and expression of two contradictions of the capitalist system: (1) between private ownership of the means of production and the social character of production and (2) between the global character of production and the nation-state system." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
The SEP and the struggle against imperialist war
We are publishing here the first of six resolutions adopted unanimously by the Ninth National Congress of the Socialist Equality Party (US), held from August 2 to 7, 2026
www.wsws.org
August 15, 2026 at 6:49 AM
"Imperialist war is the outcome and expression of two contradictions of the capitalist system: (1) between private ownership of the means of production and the social character of production and (2) between the global character of production and the nation-state system." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
1/ David North: Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party: "The danger of a third world war is rooted in the central contradiction of the world capitalist system, between the globally integrated productive forces and the nation-state framework, between technological development
August 14, 2026 at 3:25 AM
1/ David North: Report to the Ninth Congress of the Socialist Equality Party: "The danger of a third world war is rooted in the central contradiction of the world capitalist system, between the globally integrated productive forces and the nation-state framework, between technological development
1/ The antidote to the nationalist poison being dispensed through this World Cup is not contempt for the genuine popular enthusiasm behind football. It is the recognition that workers everywhere hold the levers of a globalized economy and are exploited by the same international financial oligarchy.
July 25, 2026 at 4:31 AM
1/ The antidote to the nationalist poison being dispensed through this World Cup is not contempt for the genuine popular enthusiasm behind football. It is the recognition that workers everywhere hold the levers of a globalized economy and are exploited by the same international financial oligarchy.
1/ Evan Blake, WSWS: 'Rarely do the defenders of private property state their case so frankly as Dean Ball, a former Trump administration official who is now OpenAI’s “head of strategic futures.” A world dominated by open-weight models, Ball declared on X, would amount to “full AI communism,”
July 23, 2026 at 3:56 PM
1/ Evan Blake, WSWS: 'Rarely do the defenders of private property state their case so frankly as Dean Ball, a former Trump administration official who is now OpenAI’s “head of strategic futures.” A world dominated by open-weight models, Ball declared on X, would amount to “full AI communism,”
1/ David North: "No serious history can proceed through patriotic mythmaking. The American Revolution was, to define the event in appropriate historical and socio-economic terms, a bourgeois democratic revolution." -World Socialist Web Site
June 27, 2026 at 2:01 AM
1/ David North: "No serious history can proceed through patriotic mythmaking. The American Revolution was, to define the event in appropriate historical and socio-economic terms, a bourgeois democratic revolution." -World Socialist Web Site
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Is AI itself the problem? Or Capitalism?
"... Modern bourgeois society ... has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. ..."
www.wsws.org/en/special/l...
"... Modern bourgeois society ... has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. ..."
www.wsws.org/en/special/l...
June 27, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Is AI itself the problem? Or Capitalism?
"... Modern bourgeois society ... has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. ..."
www.wsws.org/en/special/l...
"... Modern bourgeois society ... has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. ..."
www.wsws.org/en/special/l...
Andre Damon: "The power of the financial oligarchy cannot be broken through tinkering around the edges. The only viable program is expropriation. The wealth of Musk and his fellow oligarchs must be seized and made the common property of society." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Elon Musk to become the world’s first trillionaire: The case for expropriation
Within the next 10 days Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire, when SpaceX, the space launch monopoly he controls, carries out the largest initial public offering in history.
www.wsws.org
June 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Andre Damon: "The power of the financial oligarchy cannot be broken through tinkering around the edges. The only viable program is expropriation. The wealth of Musk and his fellow oligarchs must be seized and made the common property of society." www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
1/ Tom Hall: "AI itself is not the problem. The critical question is who controls this technology. It must be freed from the shackles of private ownership. The development and training of AI systems is social labor in the fullest sense of the word, and its benefits must be available to all." WSWS
May 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
1/ Tom Hall: "AI itself is not the problem. The critical question is who controls this technology. It must be freed from the shackles of private ownership. The development and training of AI systems is social labor in the fullest sense of the word, and its benefits must be available to all." WSWS
Karl Marx (1850): "Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one."
May 9, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Karl Marx (1850): "Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one."
1/ David North: "imperialist war is not the mere product of subjective decisions, evil influences and bad policies. Rather, it is the outcome and expression of the two essential objective contradictions of the capitalist system itself: first, between private ownership of the productive forces and
May 7, 2026 at 3:25 AM
1/ David North: "imperialist war is not the mere product of subjective decisions, evil influences and bad policies. Rather, it is the outcome and expression of the two essential objective contradictions of the capitalist system itself: first, between private ownership of the productive forces and
1/ Tom Mackaman's 'World Socialist Web Site' article "April 1776: When America opened its ports to the world" represents his welcome return to a historical materialist interpretation of the American Revolution. He explains the April 6, 1776, declaration by the Continental Congress that the ports
April 30, 2026 at 11:18 AM
1/ Tom Mackaman's 'World Socialist Web Site' article "April 1776: When America opened its ports to the world" represents his welcome return to a historical materialist interpretation of the American Revolution. He explains the April 6, 1776, declaration by the Continental Congress that the ports
1/ Joe Kishore, World Socialist Web Site: "In the 18th century, the struggle against monarchy was bound up with the rise of the bourgeoisie and the creation of the democratic republic. In the 21st century, the defense and extension of democracy require the expropriation of the financial oligarchy
April 30, 2026 at 3:57 AM
1/ Joe Kishore, World Socialist Web Site: "In the 18th century, the struggle against monarchy was bound up with the rise of the bourgeoisie and the creation of the democratic republic. In the 21st century, the defense and extension of democracy require the expropriation of the financial oligarchy
David North: "No solution to the crisis of American capitalism will emerge from the existing institutions and framework of bourgeois politics. It can and will develop only outside of and in uncompromising opposition to the existing political framework and the capitalist economic order it defends."
April 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
David North: "No solution to the crisis of American capitalism will emerge from the existing institutions and framework of bourgeois politics. It can and will develop only outside of and in uncompromising opposition to the existing political framework and the capitalist economic order it defends."
David North: "The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership is a critical task of the socialist revolution."-WSWS
April 6, 2026 at 3:09 AM
David North: "The liberation of science and technology from the stranglehold of private capitalist ownership is a critical task of the socialist revolution."-WSWS
David North: "The working class needs a program and party to connect its democratic aspirations to the understanding that genuine democracy is incompatible with the dictatorship of the financial oligarchy and can only be secured through the socialist transformation of society." -WSWS
April 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
David North: "The working class needs a program and party to connect its democratic aspirations to the understanding that genuine democracy is incompatible with the dictatorship of the financial oligarchy and can only be secured through the socialist transformation of society." -WSWS
David North: The age of national democratic revolutions belongs to the now distant past. The present historic epoch is that of world socialist revolution. The barrier between the instinctive militancy of American workers and the immense theoretical and political heritage of Marxism must be overcome.
April 6, 2026 at 2:04 AM
David North: The age of national democratic revolutions belongs to the now distant past. The present historic epoch is that of world socialist revolution. The barrier between the instinctive militancy of American workers and the immense theoretical and political heritage of Marxism must be overcome.
Lenin (1919): "One of the most democratic republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of a handful of billionaires over the whole of society, so crude and so openly corrupt as in America."
February 28, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Lenin (1919): "One of the most democratic republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of a handful of billionaires over the whole of society, so crude and so openly corrupt as in America."
Lenin (1919) on "the prejudice of bourgeois liberty" in the United States: "in reality, as long as there is private property, your state, even if it is a democratic republic, is nothing but a machine used by the capitalists to suppress the workers."
February 28, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Lenin (1919) on "the prejudice of bourgeois liberty" in the United States: "in reality, as long as there is private property, your state, even if it is a democratic republic, is nothing but a machine used by the capitalists to suppress the workers."
"The cause [of the current economic crisis] is structural and systemic: the irreconcilable contradiction between the private ownership of the means of production and the increasingly social character of the process of production itself." David North, World Socialist Web Site
February 11, 2026 at 10:42 PM
"The cause [of the current economic crisis] is structural and systemic: the irreconcilable contradiction between the private ownership of the means of production and the increasingly social character of the process of production itself." David North, World Socialist Web Site
" The emergence of transnational production networks, global supply chains spanning dozens of countries, and instantaneous worldwide communication has rendered the nation-state a fetter on the rational development of the productive forces." --David North, World Socialist Web Site
February 11, 2026 at 10:38 PM
" The emergence of transnational production networks, global supply chains spanning dozens of countries, and instantaneous worldwide communication has rendered the nation-state a fetter on the rational development of the productive forces." --David North, World Socialist Web Site
"The solution to every major social problem confronting humanity [requires] the expropriation of the billionaires, the dismantling of their control over the economy and the abolition of the capitalist system itself." Andre Damon, WSWS
January 21, 2026 at 9:34 PM
"The solution to every major social problem confronting humanity [requires] the expropriation of the billionaires, the dismantling of their control over the economy and the abolition of the capitalist system itself." Andre Damon, WSWS
"Property divides the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere. When the earth becomes a common treasury again, as it must, then this enmity in all lands must cease." Gerrard Winstanley, cited by Christopher Hill in 'The English Revolution 1640'
January 7, 2026 at 10:46 PM
"Property divides the whole world into parties and is the cause of all wars and bloodshed and contention everywhere. When the earth becomes a common treasury again, as it must, then this enmity in all lands must cease." Gerrard Winstanley, cited by Christopher Hill in 'The English Revolution 1640'