socialism

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Sat, 28/01/2023 - 22:05

By Eve Ottenberg / CounterPunch One of the first dead giveaways for fascism is animosity toward trade unions. That’s not to say all anti-union businesspeople are fascist, but simply that that hatred is a first step on the primrose path to a polity of utterly oppressed wage slaves and strictly limited civil rights, a step […]

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Created
Fri, 27/01/2023 - 22:03

By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Democracy has a dream-like character. It sweeps into the world, carried forward by an immense desire by humans to overcome the barriers of indignity and social suffering. When confronted by hunger or the death of their children, earlier communities might have reflexively blamed nature or divinity, […]

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Created
Tue, 29/11/2022 - 06:00

One of the many things we can learn from the recent elections in the United States is that the socialist revival which began there a few years ago, spearheaded first by Bernie Sanders in the Senate and then by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) in the House, has by no means run out of steam. The small but energetic Democratic Socialists of America contingent within the House Democrats, and in roles within the states and communities, has not gone away. Sanders and AOC continue to be very vocal and visible in political debate and action from their socialist perspectives. The widely anticipated Republican wave not only failed to sweep away mainstream Democrats; it also failed to dislodge the socialists.

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Created
Sat, 30/07/2022 - 14:30
It is not socialism that explains capitalism, argues Max Weber, it is rather capitalism that explains socialism. And as long as capitalism exists, socialist aspirations will persist: “What characterises our current situation is firstly the fact that the private sector of the economy in conjunction with private bureaucratic organisation and hence with the separation of the worker […]