How should we think about “socialist revolution” in the twenty-first century? I put the term in scare-quotes because it can be hard to believe anymore that a socialist, or economically democratic, ...

The World Socialist Web Site is publishing here Chapter 10 of Leon Trotsky’s work “The Permanent Revolution,” written in 1929. We publish this chapter as a supplementary text to the lecture given by ...

Socialism is an economic and political system in which the means of production – such as factories, land, and resources – are owned or controlled collectively by society, usually through the ...

People trying to understand politics in the United States today often turn to history for precedents and perspective. Are our current divisions like the ones that preceded the American Revolution or ...