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Jun 3, 2024 · Today capitalism is again in a period of crisis and the working class is fighting its quarter. The conditions exist for a rise in reaction – a growth of authoritarianism, the far right and potentially even fascist forces.
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Socialism Today is the monthly magazine of the Socialist Party (England and Wales). With an extensive worldwide readership, we provide up-to-date analysis, from a socialist perspective, of events in Britain and internationally.
- Socialism Is A Yearning For Something Better Than Capitalism.
- Socialism Is Not A Single, Unified Theory.
- The Soviet Union and China Achieved State Capitalism, Not Socialism.
- The U.S., Soviet Union, and China Have More in Common Than You Think.
- Thank American Socialists, Communists, and Unionists For The 1930s New Deal
- Fascism Is A Capitalist Response to Socialism.
- Socialism Has Been, and Still Is, evolving.
- Worker Co-Ops Are A Key to Socialism’s Future.
Socialism represents the awareness of employees that their sufferings and limitations come less from their employers than from the capitalist system. That system prescribes incentives and options for both sides, and rewards and punishments for their behavioral “choices.” It generates their endless struggles and the employees’ realization that syste...
People spread socialism across the world, interpreting and implementing it in many different ways based on context. Socialists found capitalism to be a system that produced ever-deepening inequalities, recurring cycles of unemployment and depression, and the undermining of human efforts to build democratic politics and inclusive cultures. Socialist...
As leader of the Soviet Union, Lenin once said that socialism was a goal, not yet an achieved reality. The Soviet had, instead, achieved “state capitalism.” A socialist party had state power, and the state had become the industrial capitalist displacing the former private capitalists. The Soviet revolution had changed who the employer was; it had n...
As capitalism emerged from feudalism in Europe in the 19th century, it advocated liberty, equality, fraternity, and democracy. When those promises failed to materialize, many became anti-capitalist and found their way to socialism. Experiments in constructing post-capitalist, socialist systems in the 20th century (especially in the Soviet Union and...
FDR’s government raised the revenue necessary for Washington to fund massive, expensive increases in public services during the Depression of the 1930s. These included the Social Security system, the first federal unemployment compensation system, the first federal minimum wage, and a mass federal jobs program. FDR’s revenues came from taxing corpo...
A fascist economic system is capitalist, but with a mixture of very heavy government influence. In fascism, the government reinforces, supports, and sustains private capitalist workplaces. It rigidly enforces the employer/employee dichotomy central to capitalist enterprises. Private capitalists support fascism when they fear losing their position a...
During the second half of the 20th century, socialism’s diversity of interpretations and proposals for change shrank to two alternative notions: 1.) moving from private to state-owned-and -operated workplaces and from market to centrally planned distributions of resources and products like the Soviet Union, or 2.) “welfare-state” governments regula...
The focus of the capitalism-versus-socialism debate is now challenged by the changes within socialism. Who the employers are (private citizens or state officials) now matters less than what kind of relationship exists between employers and employees in the workplace. The role of the state is no longer the central issue in dispute. A growing number ...
Sep 23, 2020 · At its simplest, socialism calls for a nation's citizens to control at least some of its means of production — the major ingredients needed for a healthy economy. Think infrastructure, energy,...
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Mar 25, 2023 · The U.S. has the lowest support for socialism at 31 per cent. Among younger people (aged 18-34) in the U.K., support for socialism increases to 53 per cent, again higher than in the three other countries.
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Dec 11, 2019 · “Today, the radical left in the UK, the US and France is calling not for social democracy but for democratic socialism. For me, the former means the taxation and regulation of private enterprise, while the latter means the democratic ownership of most large corporations and financial institutions.”
