Tony Cliff said that the case for socialism takes less than 2 minutes to understand - a mere glance at the world and the way it is divided into the filthy rich and the desperately poor makes that case immediately. This series of articles explains the ideas of socialism in the tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg and Trotsky - ideas that can explain the world in a way that no other ideas can. Enjoy.

• Unnecessary contradictions
• Exploitation? "That only happens in sweatshops, and they're rare in themselves..."
• Why work sucks
• Legos and Rice
• What is capital?
• a System of Crisis

• What do we mean by socialism?
• How will we get from here to there?
• How can workers ever run society?

• "I mean, socialism is a good idea, but humans are naturally greedy..."
• "What about the USSR? Weren't they socialist?"
• "Under socialism, we'd all be the same!
• "People are just naturally lazy!"
• "But the market encourages efficiency!"
• "What is class anyway? Is it how $ much you make, or something else? Why is is important?"
• "Isn't revolution violent?"
• "Do socialists believe in God?"
• "Would garbagemen be paid the same as doctors?"
• "Who is the 'ruling class'?"
• "Won't a revolution eventually lead to inequality again?"
• "You can't get rid of racism! People always fear what's different..."
• "What is women's liberation? Aren't women free already?"
• What is "Trotskyism"?
• "What about ending gay oppression?"
• "Aren't American workers part of the problem? Don't they benefit from the exploitation of workers in the Third World?
• "Can there be a revolution in the U.S.?"
• "What do socialists think of abortion?"
• "You can't get rid of crime!"
• "World revolution? That's impossible!"
• "If workers are so revolutionary, why aren't workers overthrowing capitalism right now?"

• Communism vs Socialism?
• Anarchism
• Reformism
• Stalinism
• Maoism
• Terrorism
• Pacifism
• Syndicalism

• "Professional revolutionaries? Isn't that elitist?"
• "Do socialists fight for reforms?"
• Socialists and war
• "But socialists are such a tiny minority..."
• Many fronts, one war
• Why you should join the International Socialist Organization

• Monuments
• How I Became a Socialist