Socialism
- People, not profit, are at the centre of decision-making in Chinasocialistchina.org People, not profit, are at the centre of decision-making in China - Friends of Socialist China
We are pleased to republish below three short articles connected with the April 2024 Friends of Socialist China delegation to China, two written by Margaret Kimberley for Black Agenda Report, and one by Graham Harrington for Socialist Voice. Margaret’s articles – written from China – contrast a conf...
- 75th Anniversary of NATO; No to your wars of terror and plunder!redphoenixnews.com 75th Anniversary of NATO; No to your wars of terror and plunder!
Published in Scintilla #145, May 2024 by Communist Platform – for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy– Resolution of European Parties and Organizations members of the ICMLPO, adop…
- Repressive Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse
Marcuse critiques the concept of tolerance in liberal societies, arguing that it can be used to maintain existing power structures and suppress radical change. He calls for a more discriminating form of tolerance that favors progressive movements.
- Life expectancy in China keeps rising, while it's starting to drop in USourworldindata.org Life expectancy vs. health expenditure
Health expenditure includes all financing schemes and covers all aspects of healthcare. This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in the cost of living between countries.
- Question about ownership of the means of production
Howdy! I'm new here and was hoping someone might have some insight to a question I've been thinking about for a while:
If I saved up my money and bought a tractor, would it be permissible/ethical to charge others to use it when I didn't need it?
This seems awfully similar to owning the means of production. What if I instead offered to plow their fields for them instead, driving the tractor myself and negotiating fair compensation in exchange?
Sorry if this is basic stuff I'm still learning. 🙏
- Student leaders are leading the left revival in India’s national electionspeoplesdispatch.org Student leaders are leading the left revival in India's national elections : Peoples Dispatch
In West Bengal, where left parties were elected to rule for over three decades until 2011, over a half dozen young leaders are waging a battle to defeat sectarian, anti-people politics of the right-wing parties
- The Transformation Problemredsails.org The Transformation Problem
The transformation problem has provoked controversy within Marxism and derision from without for more than a century. Bourgeois economists in particular (beginning with Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, and continuing, most notoriously, with Paul Samuelson) have seized on it to argue for…
Classical labor-values measure strictly technical costs of production, whereas natural prices measure social costs of production.
Total labor cost addresses this problem by distinguishing between technical and total labor costs. Technical labor cost corresponds to the classical concept and total labor cost includes additional real costs of production incurred in virtue of non-technical, or social, conditions of production, such as production financed by a capitalist class.
This distinction separates theoretical concerns that are conflated in the classical theory. For instance, labor-values apply to distribution-independent questions about an economy, such as the productivity of labor over time or the quantity of “surplus labor” supplied by workers to capitalists, whereas total labor-values apply to distribution-dependent questions, such as the relationship between nominal prices and the actual labor time required to produce commodities.
- What are socialist views on specialization of labour compared to task generalization / job rotation?
I see many self-identified socialists imply that, in a socialist society, people would constantly be doing different jobs and would split their labour between many different jobs rather than specialize. It definitely makes sense when it comes to jobs that don't require too much specialization, but how does this work with highly specific jobs that require a disproportionately high amount of resources to become skilled in? Would they spend more time on a specialization, would they frequently rotate the same as everyone else?
- When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Somethingcaitlinjohnstone.com.au When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something
When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they’re falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid…
- Cooperatives in China: Current Status and Prospects for Significant Growthwww.newssocial.news Cooperatives in China: Current Status and Prospects for Significant Growth
Cooperatives in China: Current Status and Prospects for Significant Growth
- UBC encampment students brought some theory ✊
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ubc-pro-palestinian-protest-photos-1.7192553
- Cuba Changed Me•(interview with a US activist on solidarity with Cuba)www.trabajadores.cu Cuba Changed Me • Trabajadores
Interview with two American activists committed to solidarity with Cuba and the fight against the US blockade
- Developing Whole-Process People’s Democracy and Ensuring the People Run the Countryen.qstheory.cn Developing Whole-Process People’s Democracy and Ensuring the People Run the Country
The efforts to propose, implement, and develop whole-process people’s democracy have clearly illustrated the CPC’s firm commitment to the position of people’s democracy and the principle of the people running the country and provided sound guidance for promoting socialist political advancement in th...
- Citigroup’s Plutonomy Memo: “There are rich consumers, and there are the rest”elpidio.org Citigroup’s Plutonomy Memo: “There are rich consumers, and there are the rest”
In October 16, 2005, Citigroup came out with a brochure for investors called “Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances” urging investors to put money into a “Plutonomy Baske…
- Vijay Prashad: “Socialism or ruin”peoplesdispatch.org Vijay Prashad: “Socialism or ruin” : Peoples Dispatch
Vijay Prashad spoke about the concept hyper imperialism and how the people of the world need to defeat it
- Planned obsolescence shatters the myth of capitalist innovationredphoenixnews.com Opinion: Planned obsolescence shatters the myth of capitalist innovation!
(Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP) M. A. Booth | Red Phoenix correspondent | Kentucky– The cheerleaders of capitalist barbarity are oftentimes found defending their system of greed and exploitation …
- Rural communities left behind by capitalism should look to socialismredphoenixnews.com Rural communities left behind by capitalism should look to socialism
This view of Mount Sterling, Ohio, and surrounding farmland provide the stereotypical view of rural America. (Getty Images) American Party of Labor, Colorado Division– In the United States th…
- The leftist alternative to Wikipedia? Leftypedia!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14178982
> ! > > We are Leftypedia, a socialist and left-wing online encyclopedia. > > If you're a leftist of any kind or considering becoming one, you've probably found truthful information about socialist ideologies and movements from websites like Wikipedia lacking at best. > > These days, genuine leftist ideology can be hard to get into and learn about, between the toxic culture that dominates online leftist spaces and the many issues faced by even offline socialist organizations. Reading theory-dense works from Marx can be hard at first, and the easily-accessible guides targeted at beginners often don't even understand the work their talking about themselves! > > So, what's the solution? > > A dedicated socialist resource, like Leftypedia. > > We aspire for new leftists to be given an environment where original discourse is encouraged on top of sourced and informative encyclopedic articles > > Since are beginning in 2019, we have hundreds of articles, dozens of editors, and a growing community and base of content. > > We're well on our way of reaching our goals, and welcome any leftist or incoming-leftist to view and editor our articles, carry out original discourse, and so on! > > Our Discord server > > Our Matrix space > > Questions about us? Feel free to ask them here or on the links provided above!