Part 1
A few profiting from the many
We live in a world in which capitalism has spread to every corner of the globe, a market-based, profit-driven system where wealth is used to get more wealth.

Part 2
To each according to their needs
Imagine a society in which all people take from society what they need, put in what they can, and where no one is satisfied until everyone has adequate food, shelter, clothing and so on.

Part 3
Standing on the shoulders of giants
At the heart of the Marxist tradition is the battle cry raised by Marx and Engels: "The emancipation of the working class must be achieved by the working class itself."

Part 4
Not a single wheel would turn
The working today is larger on a world scale than it has ever been; yet the concentration of the world's wealth in a few hands has developed to an unimaginable degree.

Part 5
The power to bring the system to a halt
Every strike reminds the capitalists that it is the workers and not they who are the real masters.

Part 6
Uniting to resist the employers' attacks
Socialists support trade unions because they are the most elementary form of organization of the working class.

Part 7
Mobilizing the power of the rank and file
Rank-and-file organization is needed in unions to overcome the limits of the union leadership.

Part 8
Reform struggles and the road to revolution
In the collective fight for reforms, ordinary people are radicalized and gain a sense of their own power.

Part 9
A tool for preserving class rule
The modern state is the state of the dominant class, and its main purpose is to secure the rule of that class.

Part 10
A system to carry out workers' democracy
The working class needs its own, democratic state-a state that works itself out of a job.

Part 11
No choice between the capitalist parties
The U.S. political system creates an institutional arrangement whereby only two parties are presented as legitimate options.

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