Socialisms

Les socialismes africains ou la reconquête de l’homme

by Norman Ajari

Port Huron at Fifty: The New Left and Labor: An Interview with Kim Moody

by Christopher Phelps

Published in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Volume 9, Issue 2 (summer 2012): 25-46.

This interview with Kim Moody, who was present at the Port Huron convention of 1962 as a twenty-two-year-old Johns... more This interview with Kim Moody, who was present at the Port Huron convention of 1962 as a twenty-two-year-old Johns Hopkins University student, illuminates the early history of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), especially the neglected labor-related portions of The Port Huron Statement, one of the most influential manifestos of the sixties radicalization. In a wide-ranging discussion on labor and the New Left, Moody explains the different views of labor represented at Port Huron, appraises individual thinkers such as Tom Hayden and C. Wright Mills, and explores topics such as the meaning of participatory democracy, the politics of labor in the 1960s, class relations in the civil rights movement, the SDS economic and research action projects, and the general relationship between organized labor and the New Left.

Raspail, une candidature impossible

by Samuel Hayat

The Stalin Cult between Center and Periphery: Structures of the Cult Community in the Empire of Socialism, 1949-1956 – the Case of GDR, in: Ennker B., Hein-Kircher H. (ed.), Der Führer im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2010, pp.297-321.

by Alexey Tikhomirov

The French Election and the Democratic Left

by Luke Martell

Shorter version published on New Left Project: http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/the_french_elections_and_the_democratic_left

The French election raises important lessons about the future of socialism and for the democratic left The French election raises important lessons about the future of socialism and for the democratic left

Modern implications of John Clifford’s theological understanding of socialism

by Matthew Tennant

Paper presented at the Baptist Historical Society, Centenary Conference, July 16-19, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic.

Benvenuti in tempi interessanti di Slavoj Žižek. La rivoluzione è possibile nel regno dell’uomo-massa?

by Pietro Piro

Recensione critica a S. Žižek, Benvenuti in tempi interessanti, Ponte alle Grazie, Milano 2012.

E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa... more E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa di riorganizzare interamente il processo produttivo in modo tale che le forze di alienazione della regolamentazione tanto del mercato quanto dello Stato vengano sostituite da un'autentica pianificazione organizzata "dal basso", in un rapporto di trasparenza con i produttori come afferma S. Žižek, oppure, il capitale non si tocca perché garantisce la lunga vita dell'uomo-massa?

2001.Muela-Meza.Z.M.Graduate_Quill.nov-dec.CooperativeVSCompetitiverelationships

by Zapopan M. Muela-Meza

Muela-Meza, Z. M. (2001). “Cooperative versus competitive relationships among graduate students and professors.” The Graduate Quill. Buffalo, NY: SUNY at Buffalo, Graduate Student Association, Nov/Dec 2001, pp. 4, and 23-24.

Muela-Meza, Z. M. (2001). “Cooperative versus competitive relationships among graduate students and professors.” The... more Muela-Meza, Z. M. (2001). “Cooperative versus competitive relationships among graduate students and professors.” The Graduate Quill. Buffalo, NY: SUNY at Buffalo, Graduate Student Association, Nov/Dec 2001, pp. 4, and 23-24.

COOPERATIVE VERSUS COMPETITIVE FACULTY-STUDENTS RELATIONSHIPS
By: Zapopan Martin Muela-Meza, zapopanmuela@gmail.com
Buffalo, NY 10/5/2001
This essay is an intent to describe the cooperative approach of faculty-students relationships as opposite to the competitive ones. It is not a scientific research paper or parametrical research from an expert in the subject. The purpose is to invite faculty members to a serious and profound reflection of their roles when relating to students in their real and virtual classrooms. To invite them to remain cultivating the cooperative approach if they are already in, or to adopt it –or finding an ever better one-- as to foster better and nicer relationships among students. It conveys appropriately two worldwide leaders of thought, one on the very high-minded abstract thought, Albert Einstein, and other in the very practical one, not less thoughtful, Stephen R. Covey. And Carl Sagan as a conclusion.

References:

[1] Einstein, Albert. ―Why Socialism? Monthly Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, May 1949. Online (10/4/2001), http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm.
[2] Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of the Highly Effective People. Restoring the Character of Ethic. New York: Franklin Covey Co. & Simon and Shuster, Fire Side Book, 1990, ―Habit 4 Think Win/Win‖, p. 208.
[3] Covey, Stephen R. op. cit., p. 207.
[ 4] Einstein, Albert. op. cit.
[5] Sagan, Carl. ―The Common Enemy‖ in Sagan, Carl. Billions and Billions. Thoughts on Life and Death at the Blink of the Millenium. New York, Ballantine Books, 1997, p. 181.
Recommended Reading:
Faculty member, if you are serious about the education business here is a recommendation from a Polish education scientist:
Suchodolski, Bogdan. Marxist Theory of Education.
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Did 1989 Matter? British Marxists and the Collapse of the Eastern Bloc

by Evan Smith

in P. Kimunguyi & E. Polonska-Kimunguyi (eds), Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Soviet Union, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw, 2012 (in press - available June 1, 2012).

http://scholar.com.pl/sklep.php?md=products&id_p=2247

Contact me for a draft version of the paper.

The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism

by Zapopan M. Muela-Meza

Bellamy Foster, John and Robert W. McChesney, Robert W. (2011). “The Internet’s Unholy Marriage to Capitalism.” Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, Volume 62, Issue 10 (March). [Online] http://monthlyreview.org/2011/03/01/the-internets-unholy-marriage-to-capitalism .

The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the... more The United States and the world are now a good two decades into the Internet revolution, or what was once called the information age. The past generation has seen a blizzard of mind-boggling developments in communication, ranging from the World Wide Web and broadband, to ubiquitous cell phones that are quickly becoming high-powered wireless computers in their own right. Firms such as Google, Amazon, Craigslist, and Facebook have become iconic. Immersion in the digital world is now or soon to be a requirement for successful participation in society. The subject for debate is no longer whether the Internet can be regarded as a technological development in the same class as television or the telephone. Increasingly, the debate is turning to whether this is a communication revolution closer to the advent of the printing press.1

Andrea Pinazzi, Elogio della complessità, in Mondoperaio, 2, 2012 (issn: 0392-1115)

by Andrea Pinazzi

Prove di vincolo esterno. La Repubblica Federale Tedesca e il "compromesso storico" come problema internazionale

by Giovanni Bernardini

F. Perfetti, A. Ungari, D. Caviglia, D. De Luca (a cura di), "Aldo Moro nell'Italia contemporanea", Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011

A Comparative Study-The Role of Economic Policies in Destruction of the USSR and Yugoslavia

by onurhan pehlivanoglu

Green or Red: An Exploration of the Cooperative Environmental Niche in Wales

by Molly Scott Cato

Journal of Cooperative Studies, 39/2 (2006): 29-40
Co-authored with Len Arthur, Tom Keenoy and Russell Smith

This paper proposes the possibility of a link between the commitment to building a sustainable economy and the... more This paper proposes the possibility of a link between the commitment to building a sustainable economy and the cooperative model of organisation. The analysis is based in an analysis of guild socialist and utopian socialist ideas that supported the development of cooperatives and their links with current green political economy. The cooperative is a natural form of productive organization as visualized by both these traditions. The research findings reported in the paper relate to an audit of 81 cooperatives in Wales (Arthur et al., 2004), whose sample included 17 cooperatives operating with a clear commitment to the environment. A brief illustration of the practicalities of bringing together these shared ideas and the activity of environmentally-focused cooperatives in Wales is offered. It is suggested that further research into the existence of an environmental niche in Wales and its relationship to guild socialist, utopian socialist and green ideas may be fruitful.
Issues of accountability and responsibility are seen as key to the possible
sustainability-cooperative link.

Article: The Myth of the Pro-Colonialist SPD: German Social Democracy and Imperialism Before the First World War

by Jens-Uwe Guettel

Central European History, Volume 45, Number 34 (September 1, 2012)

New scholarship on Imperial Germany has reinterpreted nineteenth-century Germany’s internal problems and tensions from... more New scholarship on Imperial Germany has reinterpreted nineteenth-century Germany’s internal problems and tensions from global and transnational vantage points. Perhaps as a result of this fresh methodology, the German Social Democrats (SPD) have often been relegated to the sidelines. Contrary to the assumptions of an older generation of historians, by now the view is wide-spread that the SPD was, at least during the years immediately preceding World War I, almost a negligible element of Imperial German politics and even supported German colonialism, because the party’s severe losses in the so-called “Hottentot elections” of 1907 had prompted the party to reconsider its approach towards colonial politics.
This article challenges this evaluation of the SPD’s allegedly uniform pre-World War I stance on colonialism, arguing that, firstly, the impact of the SPD’s defeat in the “Hottentot elections” on the party’s public and programmatic stance on colonialism has been grossly exaggerated, and, secondly, that despite the fact that the party had prominent pro-colonialist members, even after 1907 it consciously cultivated its image as a consistently anti-colonialist party and, most importantly, was also perceived as such by its political opponents, the German government, and the German and international public at large.

Building utopias here and now? Left and working-class utopias in Ireland

by Laurence Cox

Ecopolitics online vol. 1 no. 1: 123 – 132, 2007.

While a powerful strand of both environmental and religious utopianism has been to construct purpose-built communities... more While a powerful strand of both environmental and religious utopianism has been to construct purpose-built communities "somewhere else", usually in rural settings, a combination of lack of resources and doubts about the strategic usefulness of such projects has led most working-class or left utopias to have a different focus. Typically, these latter grew within the struggle to meet everyday needs, in the course of political campaigns or at the highpoint of society-wide struggles, and were understood strategically, as part of a broader struggle for change. This article explores some aspects of left and working-class utopias in Ireland across the 20th century, and attempts to relate them to broader theoretical questions about working-class self-organisation and strategies for social change.

The Negative Impact of Capitalism on the Global Society

by Tobias-René Wilczek

Written for SOC101Y while a Grade 11 Student

On Ljunggren's' Plan and Market'

by paul cockshott

Notes for a critique of Brewster

by paul cockshott

Is economic planning hypercomputational? The argument from cantor diagonalisation

by paul cockshott