Trump’s Trade War Bailouts Speak to Revolutionary Possibilities

The Trump administration has once again been called upon to carry out some kind of compensation for the American victims of Trump foreign policy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that a $12 billion package is being put together by the Trump administration as a “bailout” to farmers who have been affected by the…

Class Contradiction both Domestic and Global

In Edmonton, an Addition Elle employee was fired after her employer saw a Facebook post of hers that included the word ‘fat.’[i] Addition Elle is a clothing store that provides clothing for plus size women. Connie Levitsky, a third-year MacEwan University student, had posted a ‘body positive message’ in support of other overweight women. She…

Understanding Mao’s “On Contradiction”

It can be quite difficult to understand dialectics given the nature of the topic and the difficult language that is used. Here I will attempt to make understanding Mao’s Tse-tung “On Contradiction” easier for someone new to it to understand. The Universality of Contradiction The universality of contradiction is well known, this is the basis…