Socialism

Poverty Has Always Accompanied Capitalism

July 10, 2016 Mark Karlin, www.truthout.org Educate! Capitalism, Finance and the Economy, Poverty, Socialism

By Mark Karlin for Truthout. What economic theory Americans learn comes mostly - directly or indirectly - from college and university teachers: their classes, the textbooks they write, the journalists and politicians shaped by them, etc. The substance of the mainstream economics delivered in these ways is this: economics is a basic science that explains how the economy works. By "the economy" is meant modern capitalism as if (1) nothing else, no other system, was of interest today (other than for historians) and (2) no alternative ways of theorizing, thinking about economies, exist or are worth considering. Indeed, most mainstream textbooks have the word "economics" in their title as if no differentiating adjective (such as neoclassical or Marxist etc.) needs to be added to let readers know which among alternative theories was being used by the author.

How To Socialize America’s Energy

May 22, 2016 Kate Aronoff, www.theleapblog.org Create! Electric Cooperatives, Energy, Leap Manifesto, Public Utilities, Socialism

By Kate Aronoff for the LEAP Blog. Today’s renewable energy sector, while growing rapidly, hardly offers a roadmap to the transition needed. As billionaires battle over the profits promised by the “clean energy revolution,” experts agree that cobbling together private-sector solutions will not be enough. Neither will the boutique solutions on offer from the left. A more radical approach—one commensurate to the scale of the problem—will require state intervention. Yet traditional forms of public investment remain elusive. Calls for a Green New Deal or wartime-level mobilization against climate change, to use the oft-invoked metaphors (A “Marshall Plan for the Earth,” in Naomi Klein’s version), each take their cues from an economic ideology antithetical to today’s. Instead of direct investment, funding for renewables comes largely via tax credits and market-based incentives for private companies, including the recently extended 30 percent Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for solar. Public infrastructure spending and job creation programs remain off the table.

More Americans Want Socialist Healthcare Than You Think

May 20, 2016 Harry Cheadle, www.vice.com Educate! Bernie Sanders, Healthcare, Socialism

By Harry Cheadle for Vice - The passage of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, shows what it takes to create a new government benefit in 21st-century America. The debate over the bill during Obama's first term was a nationwide shoutfest that turned violent at times; since Obamacare became law in 2010, the Republican-controlled House has continuously voted to defund it, conservatives have challenged it in multiple court battles (at least one of which is still being fought), many GOP-run states have stalled the expansion of Medicaid that was supposed to come with the law...

Mapping American Social Movements Through 20th Century

May 9, 2016 James Gregory, www.fdepts.washington.edu Educate! Communism, History, Social Movements, Socialism, United States

By James Gregory forUniversity of Washington - This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Until now historians and social scientists have mostly studied social movements in isolation and often with little attention to geography.

Mapping The European Left Socialist Parties In The EU

April 16, 2016 Dominic Heilig, www.frosalux-nyc.org Educate! European Union (EU), Party Politics, Socialism

By Dominic Heilig for Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung - The European party system is changing rapidly. As a result of the ongoing neoliberal attack, the middle class is shrinking quickly, and the decades-old party allegiance of large groups of voters has followed suit. The European far right has been able to capitalize on this development; in many countries, populist and radical right-wing parties have experienced an unprecedented boom, as Thilo Janssen’s RLS-study on “Far-right Parties and the European Union” shows.

Anniversary Of The Paris Commune, 1871

March 18, 2016 The Days of the Paris Commune, www.daysofthecommune.com Create! Anarchism, Paris Commune, Socialism

By The Days of the Paris Commune, The Paris Commune was 72 days when the working class seized power in Paris and put in place their own government. During the Commune workers occupied their own city, creating a progressive democratic assembly from March 18 to May 28, 1871 before being brutally destroyed by the French Government.The commune has been talked about and analyzed by many for the lessons it taught. We thought on this anniversary we'd remember some of the lessons of the Paris Commune.

The Socialist Origins Of International Working Women’s Day

March 9, 2016 Jennie Ernewein, www.marxist.ca Educate! International Working Womens Day, Socialism, Women

By Jennie Ernewein for Fightback - Over 100 years have passed since the first International Women’s Day was organized. Although International Women’s Day (IWD) has, in recent years, become an event that focuses on the celebration of women’s rights and achievements, the socialist origins of the IWD have become lesser known. Originally called International Working Women’s Day, it was proposed by Clara Zetkin of the International Women’s Conference that was linked to the Socialist Second International in 1910.

Why Are There Suddenly Millions Of Socialists In America?

March 4, 2016 Harold Meyerson, www.theguardian.com Educate! 2016 Elections, Bernie Sanders, Socialism, United States

By Harold Meyerson for The Guardian - In 1906 German sociologist Werner Sombart wrote an essay entitled Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? that sought to explain why the US, alone among industrialized democracies, had not developed a major socialist movement. Today, however, we need to pose a different question: why are there socialists in the United States? In this nation that has long been resistant to socialism’s call, who are all these people who now suddenly deem themselves socialists? Where did they come from? What do they mean by socialism?

The No State Solution In Kurdistan: Libertarian Socialism Institutionalized

March 2, 2016 Alexander Kolokotronis, www.newpol.org Create! Kurdistan, Revolution, Rojava, Socialism

By Alexander Kolokotronis for New Politics - In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan. Yet, this shift is not limited to the region of Rojava, or what many call Syrian or Western Kurdistan – a region where the Democratic Union Party (PYD) has taken an active part in this change. In “Turkish,” or rather Northern Kurdistan, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has been the foremost leader. In Eastern Kurdistan (lying within Iranian borders) the Party for Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK) has taken to the change in ideological orientation as well.

Venezuela Agricultural Communes Oppose Privatization Of Lands

February 9, 2016 Lucas Koerner, www.venezuelanalysis.com Resist! Communes, Food and Agriculture, Land Rights, Privatization, Socialism, Venezuela

By Lucas Koerner for Venezuela Analysis – After passing a motion by majority vote on Tuesday, Venezuela’s National Assembly will launch an inquiry into the expropriations of privately owned land and enterprises spearheaded by the socialist government in past years. The country’s newly elected parliament, dominated by the right-wing opposition, has vowed to reverse the socialist government’s social and economic policies, which included the breakup of large private firms and landholdings deemed unproductive and their transfer to state, worker, or communal control.

The Case For Radical Modernity

February 5, 2016 Jeremy Gilbert, www.redpepper.org.uk Strategize! Left, Socialism, Technology

By Jeremy Gilbert for Red Pepper - If we look back at points in history where the left has achieved real political success, we can see that socialists have always had to identify the problems that capitalism is creating at any given moment, and respond to them by using new technologies, new forms of government and new types of self-organisation in order to achieve their objectives. The period of the socialist left’s greatest success – the mid-20th century – was also when it most wholeheartedly embraced what were then the cutting-edge sciences of manufacturing, communication and management.

Cuba Impression

January 5, 2016 Gene Bruskin, www.stansburyforum.com Educate! Cuba, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Poverty, Socialism, Torture

By Gene Bruskin for Stansbury Forum - As I prepared for my recent November trip to Cuba I thought back to my many memories of my first visit in the spring of 1970. Having left teaching in the South Bronx, discouraged and risking the draft deferment NYC teaching ironically provided, I decided, with my wife at the time, to go on to Cuba on the Second Venceremos Brigade. The Brigade was a left initiative to help break the US imposed blockade on Cuba and 800 of us went from across the country to cut cane with the Cubans and help them succeed in their production goal in the Year of the Ten Million tons.

‘Socialist Imperative’: ‘Must-Read For Revolutionaries’

October 18, 2015 Doug Enaa Greene, www.links.org.au Educate! Capitalism, Socialism

By Doug Enaa Greene for Links - Those who open Michael Lebowitz's new book, The Socialist Imperative, will find something far different and refreshing than the old apologetic Soviet manuals on the smooth workings of a planned economy. What they will discover is a collection of writings inspired by Lebowitz's lifetime of activism and profound solidarity with the oppressed and exploited under capitalism and his revolutionary vision of how to build a socialist alternative. The purpose of Michael Lebowitz's book is explained by his title choice -- The Socialist Imperative. As Lebowitz argues, the pressing need to eliminate capitalism and replace it with a “society of associated free producers oriented to the full development of human potential” (p. 8) is not new, but is needed because of capital's drive to expand without limit threatens the destruction of the natural world. This means that the need to act is immediate. Certainly with the crushing crisis of capitalism and ecological disaster in the not too distant future, the time is coming when to act may be too late.

What It Means To Be A Socialist

September 23, 2015 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Educate! Revolution, Socialism

By Chris Hedges in Truth Dig - We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous economic and political experiment that attempted to organize human behavior around the dictates of the global marketplace has failed. The promised prosperity that was to have raised the living standards of workers through trickle-down economics has been exposed as a lie. A tiny global oligarchy has amassed obscene wealth, while the engine of unfettered corporate capitalism plunders resources, exploits cheap, unorganized labor and creates pliable, corrupt governments that abandon the common good to serve corporate profit. The relentless drive by the fossil fuel industry for profits is destroying the ecosystem, threatening the viability of the human species. And no mechanisms to institute genuine reform or halt the corporate assault are left within the structures of power, which have surrendered to corporate control. The citizen has become irrelevant. He or she can participate in heavily choreographed elections, but the demands of corporations and banks are paramount.

Political Earthquake Shakes UK: Corbyn Wins Labour Leader

September 13, 2015 Rob Sewell, www.marxist.com Create! Democracy, Great Britain, Jeremy Corbyn, Socialism, United Kingdom (UK)

By Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal Britain for Defending Marxism - This astonishing victory of Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the Labour Party represents a political earthquake of monumental proportions. It has turned the political map of Britain upside down. Hundreds of thousands of workers and youth, desperate for change, are celebrating this victory all over the country. Michael Meacher has correctly described the Corbyn campaign as “the biggest non-revolutionary upturning of the social order.” Corbyn, the left wing candidate, represents the anti-Establishment majority. This massive Corbyn victory means the party clearly rejects the right wing agenda. People want a fundamental change in society.

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