socialism
I am a socialist, and I think it’s important to be clear what socialism is and what socialism is not. Socialism is about radical democracy in our economy – it is about ordinary people, the working class, exerting direct democratic control over our workplaces and our society more broadly. Socialism is the antithesis of dictatorship (no matter how many dictatorships tried to lay claim to it), and it is also not just about having a welfare state under capitalism, much less “socialism is if a government spends money on anything”.
I consider “communism”, in the Marxist sense, to be basically synonymous with “socialism” (again, regardless of how the word has been distorted) and I also feel that anarchism fundamentally has the same end goal, and its differences with socialism are more about strategy and short- to medium-term priorities.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Isaac Deutscher: Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967) was a Polish-Jewish Marxist writer who moved to the UK before the outbreak of WW2 (which …
- : 🪴 Matzpen: Matzpen was an anti-Zionist Israeli socialist group active between 1962 and the early 1970s. They supported …
- : 🪴 B.R. Ambedkar: B.R. Ambedkar (1891–1956) was an Indian politician who was a leader in the struggle for Indian independence, Law …
- : 🪴 Frank Crosswaith: Frank Crosswaith (1892–1965) was a Virgin Islands-born American Black socialist and trade union organiser. He moved to …
- : 🏏 C.L.R. James: C. L. R. James was a Trinidadian socialist who spent much of his life in the UK. He believed strongly in struggle from …
- : 🪴 A. Philip Randolph: A. Philip Randolph (1889–1979) was a prominent socialist activist in the civil rights movement. Jacobin summarises his …
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Links
- : 🚩 Link: “The Tragic Life of a Polrugarian Minister”
- : 🇨🇱 Link: “The Workers Who Seized the Means of Production”
- : 🇬🇧 Link: “How Socialists Should Think About National Independence Struggles”
- : 💵 Link: “What would be different about a socialist economy?”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Breakfast with the Panthers”
- : 📰 Link: “The Anti-Colonial Revolt Was Key to Lenin’s Vision of Revolution”
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.