This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 6th of April, 2022. In a broad sense, social relations refers to the connections and relationships between people (or groups of people) within a society. This can exist in many, often overlapping, forms. The staple reason for a set of social…

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 6th of March, 2022. The first part of this series discussed how capitalism is not ecologically sustainable. The free-market imperialist system has never been compatible with preserving the environment, as profit accumulation is the first priority above all livelihood. Capitalism, colonialism…

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 11th of January, 2022. The Omicron variant has been running rampantly and violently across the United States. Just in the month of January 2022, U.S. pandemic reports display averages of hundreds of thousands of new cases per day. It is no…

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 20th of February, 2022. “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many.”…

This essay was written by Celine Qin of the 25th of December, 2021. In a Marxist sense, materialism refers to the material world, or all things matter. The material world is perceptible to senses and is the objective reality independent of spirit or mind. …

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 25th of November, 2021. Settler colonialism is the violent process in which an invasive settler society replaces an Indigenous population. It is enacted through a variety of means, from the bloody and relentless depopulation of original inhabitants of the land, to…

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 14th of November, 2021. Reformism is a political doctrine that advocates for the reform of an existing system or institution rather than abolishing or replacing it. …

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 13th of October, 2021. Liberalism in politics is a philosophy and system based on liberty, or the state of “being free.” A primary component stressed in liberalism is individual rights and free market economy, which is the economic system based on…

This essay was written by Celine Qin on the 27th of September, 2021. The bourgeoisie and the proletariat are two classes characterized under the capitalist mode of production, based on their relation to the means of production. A mode of production is the combination of the productive forces (labor power…