"The Soviet Union was called (and called itself) Socialist, but this was as remote from Socialism as you can get!" In an interview that goes back to 2003
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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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It's often thought that socialism and market competition are opposed to each other, but this is not the case, for example, in the Bolivian city of El Alto, as David ... 
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Forget for a moment the falsity of the notion that Sanders is actually trying to win the presidency (he isn’t) and the absurdity of thinking (or claiming to think that) that one can advance sociali…
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Bernie Sanders is the creation of the New Left on the East Coast who fully extols all the attainments of the New Deal but who goes further in that he also wants to empower women, minorities, and other disempowered not only by matter of policy but...
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October 1, 2015 forum at UH Hilo titled "What is Democratic Socialism? Is it a solution for America's declining middle class" Guest speakers are Jerry Calton, ...
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Noam Chomsky. Avram Noam Chomsky (/'no?m 't??mski/; born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, logician, political ...
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Tech workers and class | Free Ismail Shabazz | Fighting racism on an individual level | Sanders can help advance socialism
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The Singularity is near! That’s what a lot of us futurists have been planning for since we first came to understand the exponential growth rate of information technologies.
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For decades, the world has debated the difference between communism and socialism. Yet it is extremely difficult to discriminate between the two simply because they both rob you of your liberty.
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Polarizing Development: Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis - Socialist Project
Neoliberal economic policies, with their emphasis on market-led development and individual rationality, have been exposed as bankrupt not only by the global economic crisis but also by increasing social opposition and resistance.
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Democratic Socialism - is it Ideal for Transhumanism?
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A lot of people imagine socialism as social welfare programmes or state control of the economy, but that's not the case. Socialism is simply when workers control ...
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George Orwell is often presented as a critic of any thoroughgoing attempt to change the world.
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An excerpt from a discussion following a lecture delivered by Dr. Slavoj Žižek on May 5th, 2015 at the Institute for Human Sciences (Institut für die ...
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In the opening salvos of Latin America's uneven lurch to the Left in the early twenty-first century, Bolivia distinguished itself as the region's most radical socio-political terrain.[1] Lef...
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It is self-evident that equal opportunity is a necessary quality of a fair society, but to achieve this an inefficient redistribution of wealth is required....
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One of the most common arguments against the possibility of socialism is that human beings are naturally competitive.
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The wage system under State monopoly capitalism, imposed on Cuba in the name of socialism, has always stood in the way and will continue to be an obstacle to free associated or individual labor – the authentically socialist forms of production.
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The paradox of the present situation is that capital is weak—but the radical left is much weaker. Alternatively, capital is economically weak, but much stronger politically, less because of mass ideological commitment to the system than because of the weakness of credible anti-capitalist alternatives. The most obvious evidence of economic weakness is that the relatively modest recoveries from the Great Recession of 2008-9 finally under way in the US, Britain and even the eurozone are dependent on massive infusions of money by the central banks. Leading economists join ex-US treasury secretary Lawrence Summers in warning that the advanced economies face “secular stagnation”.1 Meanwhile the Financial Times worries that slowing growth in the “emerging market” economies will push many in what it calls the “fragile middle”—the 2.8 billion people in the Global South with an income of between 2 and 10 dollars a day—back below the extreme poverty line.2
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In the old days of the historical Left—from the late 19th century to the mid-20th—the most-widely read piece of Marxist writing was probably Friedrich Engels’s Socialism: Utopian and Scientific. In this short text, Engels sketched the history of capitalism and the development of socialist ideas and movements as part of that history. His main point, which provided the title, was that while early socialist thinkers saw their ideas—which typically moved from criticism of the present to detailed schemes for a future society—as discoveries “of this or that ingenious brain,” Marx had demonstrated that socialist thinking and movements alike were produced by the actual development of capitalism as a society riven by opposed class interests. Socialists no longer had “to manufacture a system of society as perfect as possible” but to discover in the social conditions created by history “the means of ending the conflict” between the classes. “The Socialism of earlier days certainly criticized the existing capitalistic mode of production and its consequences. But it could not explain them, and therefore, could not get the mastery of them.”
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The American political system, so highly polarized between conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats, has experienced in the last year some interesting changes on the left-hand margin of the national political scene. From Bill de Blasio's victory in the mayoral election in New York City, to Kshama Sawant's winning of a city council seat in Seattle, from the late Chokwe Lumumba's popularly-based campaign in Jackson, Mississippi, to self-described socialist Bernie Sanders’ talk of a run for the presidency, something new appears to be happening. Independent politics and socialist party campaigns, so long marginal to American political life and from discussion in the media, seem to be back on the radar again. This is all the more remarkable given our terrible election laws that make it so difficult in so many states to get parties and candidates on the ballot.
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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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