Divided, we Fail: Understanding our Struggles by Looking at the System
By Gus Bagakis Blaming the victim protects the system by keeping the focus on what individuals are doing instead of
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03, 2021
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10, 2019
Long Walk to Freedom: Xenophobia Continues Against African Migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa
South Africans need to have a national dialogue about what it means to have immigrants in their midst and what part of this falls outside the country’s earlier vision of being a Rainbow Nation. South African cannot continue to preach the gospel of African Renaissance while it practices the talk of xenophobia
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02, 2019
Ecosocialism vs. the Green New Deal
One could ask, from the perspective of the left, does the Green New Deal go far enough? Does it address the fundamental assumptions of the US economy that led to climate catastrophe?
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02, 2019
Why Did Socialism Fail?
...like industrial capitalism, alienation pervaded every aspect of life under industrial “socialism.”
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01, 2019
Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream? II
The first part of this article asserted that, contrary to the prevailing mythology on both sides of the Cold War, socialist revolutions never succeeded in creating genuine democratic socialism. Then, several insufficient explanations for why socialist revolutions failed to produce socialism were critiqued.
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12, 2018
Democratic Socialism: An Impossible Dream?
An Article in Two Parts, by Craig Collins Part One: Socialist Mythology vs. Statist Reality The founders of “scientific socialism,”
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11, 2018
Is Ecosocialism the Antidote to Black Friday?
An Interview with Victor Wallis on WHOWHATWHY Progressive politicians from Bernie Sanders to new Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have grown increasingly bold in calling
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08, 2018
Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance
Globalization and capitalist growth are powered by abundant fossil fuels. As energy becomes scarce, boom turns to bust. But profit-hungry capitalism doesn’t die; it morphs into its zombie-like, undead phase.
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08, 2018
Catabolic Capitalism: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel
In a growth-less economy, the profit motive can have a powerful catabolic impact on society. The word "catabolism" comes from the Greek and is used in biology to refer to the condition whereby a living thing feeds on itself. Catabolic capitalism is a self-cannibalizing economic system.
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07, 2018
Capsule Introduction to Capitalism and Socialism
Socialism arose historically as a response to capitalism. Its point of departure is the contention that capital is a social product—the fruit of countless hours/days/years of labor expended by hundreds of millions of people—and therefore that it should be under social control, i.e., under the control of the whole society