In previous posts on the topic of socialism, I have argued implicitly that a market for consumer and capital goods may be necessary initially. This is so in order to eliminate the exploitation of workers by employers. The amount of work performed by a person would still be related to the amount of consumption goods … Continue reading Socialism, Part Nine: Market Socialism as an Initially Necessary but Inadequate Social Model
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Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Eight
Leer este post en español This is a continuation of earlier posts on the subject of the nature of socialism--a society that aims at the abolition of the power of employers as a class and the initial appropriation of the necessary requirements for us to control our lives as a collectivity and as individuals. In … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Eight
Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part Two
This is a continuation of a previous post. It is a response to Mr. Sam Gindin's article, We Need to Say What Socialism Will Look Like , where he argues that under socialism the government or state will not "wither away" but will expand as public services expand. Mr. Gindin's conception of the expansion of … Continue reading Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part Two
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Seven
Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of previous posts on the possible nature of socialism that excludes the power of employers as a class. In the following, Tony Smith elaborates on the criteria to be used in the distribution of the flat-rate capital-assets tax, which is the basis for the generation … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Seven
Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part One
Mr. Gindin, in his article We Need to Say What Socialism Will Look Like argues the following: The expectations of full or near-full abundance, added to perfect or near-perfect social consciousness, have a further consequence: they imply a dramatic waning, if not end, of substantive social conflicts and so do away with any need for an “external” … Continue reading Socialism, Police and the Government or State, Part One
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Six
The following is a continuation of previous posts on the possible nature of socialism that excludes the power of employers as a class. In the following, Tony Smith elaborates on the capital-assets tax, which is the basis for the generation of new investment and the supply of public goods. From Globalisation: A Systematic Marxian Account … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Six
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Five
Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of previous posts on the possible nature of socialism that excludes the power of employers as a class. In the following, Tony Smith elaborates on the right of use by workers of the places, machinery and so forth where they work, but with the local … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Five
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Four
Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of previous posts on the possible nature of socialism that excludes the power of employers as a class. In the following, Tony Smith elaborates on the democratic nature of the workplace, which is subject to control not only by the workers at the particular workplace … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Four
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Three
Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of an earlier post (Socialism, Part Two: What It May Look Like) about the nature of socialism--which is a solution to problems that capitalism, characterized by the domination of a class of employers, cannot solve. Socialism is not something that emerges from a utopian view … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Three
Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Two
Leer este post en español The following is a continuation of an earlier post (Socialism, Part One: What It May Look Like) about the nature of socialism--which is a solution to problems that capitalism, characterized by the domination of a class of employers, cannot solve. Socialism is not something that emerges from a utopian view … Continue reading Socialism, What It May Look Like, or Visions of a Better Kind of Society Without Employers, Part Two
