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Socialism of the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest

April 12, 2019

Robert Reich explain how the wealthy and corporations receive billions in corporate welfare

April 11, 2019

Tidbits - Apr. 11, 2019 - Reader Comments: 2020 and War and Peace; Biden; Chicago elections; Algeria; Socialism in America; Flint; Resources- Reconstruction, Racism, Immigration; Delegation to Venezuela; more ....

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Reader Comments: 2020 Candidates on War and Peace; Joe Biden; Chicago elections; Algeria in Revolt; Socialism in America (Milwaukee); Flint; Long Beach; Resources - Reconstruction, Racism, Immigration; Delegation to Venezuela; more Announcements;...

labor

April 8, 2019

A Real Green New Deal Means Class Struggle

Keith Brower Brown, Jeremy Gong, Matt Huber and Jamie Munro Jacobin

If we want a Green New Deal that can take on climate change, we need to challenge powerful business interests.

April 6, 2019

When Socialism Was Tried in America—and Was a Smashing Success

John Nichols The Nation

For much of the 20th century, Milwaukee was run by socialists—and Time magazine called it “one of the best-run cities in the U.S.”

April 4, 2019

Tidbits - Apr. 4, 2019 - Reader Comments: Martin Luther King Remembered; Military Budget; Reparations; Amazon, Foxconn; Puerto Rico; Mozambique; Brexit; Venezuela; Resources; Announcements; and more...

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Reader Comments: Martin Luther King Remembered; Military Budget; Reparations; Progressive Candidates; Taking Care of Amazon and Foxconn; Puerto Rico; Mozambique; Brexit; Venezuela; Resources; Lots of Announcements; and more...

books

April 4, 2019

Keywords That Reinforce Class Control

Oliver Eagleton Counterfire

Carrying on from Raymond Williams' Keywords, the classic study of capital's appropriation of words for its own ends, the book under review looks at contemporary linguistic usage that serves and reinforces dominant class interests.

April 3, 2019

America's Socialist Surge is Going Well in Chicago

Micah Uetricht The Guardian

Tuesday night’s elections saw the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history

April 1, 2019

Theses On the Path to Socialism

Julio Huato Medium.com

Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.

books

March 21, 2019

Brecht’s Poetry: Angry or Evil?

Michael Wood London Review of Books

An extended ode to the revolutionary German playwright-genius Bertolt Brecht, whose exhaustive new collected poems exalt combating injustice while keeping faith in his fidelity to dissent.

March 14, 2019

Theses on the Path to Socialism

Julio Huato Medium.com

As a rule, when the people are disposed to struggle, the task of socialists is to help them prepare and organize their political campaigns most carefully. (This was motivated by a discussion regarding Karl Kautsky’s political legacy.)

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