socialism

While we continue to get more rain than anyone including Noah though possible, here are this week's honorable mentions: G.L.R. spotted this intriguing video: […]
The post TIDBITS: THIS WEEK’S HONORABLE MENTIONS appeared first on Giza Death Star.

With the likes of John Bolton and Elliot Abrams directing US foreign policy, the US government has abandoned all pretense of “plausible denial” for its illegal regime-change initiatives. The “humanitarian” bombs may not be falling but, make no mistake, the US is waging a full-bore war against the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela.

He said, “We shouldn’t try to achieve universal [health] coverage by removing private insurance from 150 million Americans,” and then declared, “We shouldn't try to tackle climate change by guaranteeing every American a gov job,” which resulted in further disapproval from the crowd.

I like to gather signs of hope that things really can change for the better in a major way. With that in mind, I keep the website venezuelanalysis.com as my browser’s home page. Years ago I would have said, “No way!” if anyone had told me I would have great enthusiasm for a country where these elements combine forces: government, military, religion, and the oil industry.

A new Gallup Poll shows that 43% of Americans support socialism, but they are confused about the definition, believing it to be merely social equality.

There is an old adage, if the people lead, the leaders will follow.
“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.” Gandhi said (probably apocryphal.)

During the Cold war, the major antagonists, United States and Soviet Union, faced one another at European borders. No military confrontations occurred between them. Their cooperation, in a war to end all wars, had a brief interlude, and succeeding years detected huge losses of lives in endless conflicts.

Further to previous articles,1 on the Marxist Impossibilist tradition it must sound rather bizarre to modern ears that there exist political parties that do not make demands upon the present capitalist system and its protector, the State. For many people it seems common-sense that a socialist party should advocate for something right now.

If one searches “theory of alienation” in Google, predominately Marx’s theory comes out because other theories of alienation in a political and economic level do not exist. The question is why? What is so incredible in Marx’s statement that workers get alienated from the products of their labour, which alienates them from themselves? It just does not hold much water because everyone who produces for the market gets alienated from the product at the moment of purchase.

In a previous article on the World Socialist Party of the United States reference was made to Impossibilism.