ETOL Writers: Fred Goldstein

Fred Goldstein

Photo: Liz Green

(1938 — 2023)

Internet Archive

Fred Goldstein was an internationally recognized revolutionary activist and Marxist thinker living and working in the United States. He was the author of Low-Wage Capitalism: Colossus with Feet of Clay, published in 2008. The book describes in sweeping detail the devastating effect of new technology on the multinational working class, leading to the fundamental and irreversible restructuring of global capitalism in the post-Soviet era. The result, Fred argued, was a "race to the bottom" for workers in all the capitalist countries, creating the material basis for future social upheaval. His second book, Capitalism at a Dead End: Job destruction, overproduction, and crisis in the high-tech era was published in 2012. The latter work was translated and published in Spanish and Korean.. ... [read more]

Books and pamphlets

Reviving Marx and Lenin
A summary outline limited to two main areas: first, certain aspects of imperialism in the age of the scientific-technological revolution and how they are preparing the groundwork for the next phase in the world struggle for socialism; second, an assessment of the causes of the collapse of the USSR and the importance of understanding its difficulties and achievements for both the ideological and practical struggle for socialism, 70 pages, 15 April 2006

Low-wage capitalism
Colossus with feet of clay: What the new globalized, high-tech imperialism means for the class struggle in the U.S., 340 pages, 1 January 2008, PDF

Capitalism at a Dead End
Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-Tech Era, 138 pages, 10 September 2012, PDF

El capitalismo en un callejón sin salida
La era de la recuperación sin empleos y la crisis del sistema de ganancias 148 páginas, noviembre de 2012, PDF

Can socialism be revived in China? The suppression of Bo Xilai and the capitalist road 40 pages, 8 November 2012 - updated June 2013, PDF

Articles

The new Cold War against China, 14 August 2019
During the Cold War and the struggle that put the USSR and China on one side and imperialism, headed by Washington, on the other, revolutionaries used to characterize the conflict as a class war between two irreconcilable social systems. In light of the current sharpening economic, diplomatic, political and military conflict between U.S. imperialism and the People's Republic of China (PRC), it is time to revive the concepts that were applied during the height of the Cold War.

Marxism and the social character of China, 13 June 2013
The issue of China is one of the most important questions of the 21st century for the working class and the oppressed peoples, as well as the hostile imperialist ruling classes of the world. The progressive and revolutionary movements, especially in the U.S., have a great stake in arriving at a correct policy toward China.

Black August 1970: The Heroes of San Rafael, August 1970

A testament to socialist planning: Cuba leads world in managing disasters, 20 January 2005

Marxism and the Ideological Crisis: The Socialist Perspective and the Collapse of the USSR, April 2006

Colossus with feet of clay: Imperialist globalization, high-tech and the prospects for class struggle in the U.S.
Presented to the IV International Conference on "The Work of Karl Marx and Challenges for the 21st Century," Havana, Cuba, May 2008

Introduction to Sam Marcy's High tech low pay: a Marxist analysis of the changing character of the working class, July 2009

Marxism and long-term unemployment, 5 April 2014

IPCC: 'Climate change endangers life on planet', 14 April 2014

Capitalist electoral politics and class struggle, 17 April 2014

Automation threatens 47 percent of U.S. jobs, 17 April 2014

Ferguson, Attica, Zimmerman and the capitalist state, 9 March 2015

Bosses get $243 billion subsidy for paying low wages, 30 March 2015

Mass protests, boycott specter make anti-LGBTQ laws bad for business, 6 April 2015