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Tag Archives: Socialism
The Democrat and Republican parties are not classical model parties in the European tradition. They are better understood as institutions of the state.
If one sees the Democratic and Republican parties as de-facto institutions of the US state rather than as political parties, electoral strategy would be substantially different.
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Posted in Analysis of Mature Capitalism, Bernie Sanders, Bourgeois Socialism, Civil Rights, Electoral Politics, Labor Movement, Marxist Politics, political rights of the US working class, Revolutionary Tactics and Strategy, Social Democracy, Socialist Workers election campaigns, Uncategorized
Tagged Electoralism, GOP, politics, Socialism, Third Parties
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Bourgeois Socialism
. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism From MIA: Marxists: Marx & Engels: Library: 1848: Manifesto of the Communist Party: Chapter 3: A part of the bourgeoisie is desirous of redressing social grievances in order to secure the continued existence of bourgeois … Continue reading
Working-Class and Bourgeois Democracy: excerpts V.I. Lenin 1905
“The intellectualist wing devises a criterion of a good and kind bourgeoisie, worthy of concluding agreements with. The proletarian wing expects no kindness from the bourgeoisie, but supports any, even the very worst bourgeoisie, to the extent that it actually … Continue reading
Posted in Democratic tasks of the Workers Struggle, Lenin, Revolutionary Tactics and Strategy, Social Democracy, Soviet/Bolshevik history
Tagged Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Communism, lenin, Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, Social Democracy, Socialism, Socialism and Democracy, VI Lenin
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E.A. Preobrazhensky Autobiographical Sketch. Part 4. of 5. with link to complete text.
“In Zlatoust, where I had returned to work, our Party was in the minority amongst the workers, even during the October Days. The majority supported the SRs. In October I took part in an armed demonstration by the Party under … Continue reading
Posted in Autobiography of EA Preobrazhensky serialized excerpts, E.A. Preobrazhensky, Soviet/Bolshevik history
Tagged Bolshevism, Chita, Communism, Dual Power, E.A. Preobrazhensky, Irkutsk, lenin, Marxism, monopoly capitalism, political economy, Preobrazhenskii, Preobrazhensky, Socialism, Soviet History, Urals, Zlatoust
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Once More on Bill De Blasio, Marxism, ‘Class Warfare’ Neo-Liberalism and taxing the rich,
Reuters—Liberal NYC Democrat wins Obama’s backing in mayoral race: “President Barack Obama…threw his support behind New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio, lauding his fellow Democrat’s commitment to “an economy that works for all” and a “bold, courageous” plan to … Continue reading
E. A. Preobrazhensky: “Surplus Value, Surplus Product Wages”– Excerpt The New Economics with reference to Marx
This is another section in my ongoing project to digitize and serialize The New Economics the signature work of the Bolshevik revolutionary and scientific socialist E.A. Preobrazhensky. Originally published in 1926 by Preobrazhensky during the period of his struggle against … Continue reading
The Law of Value Under the Socialization of Industry in a Peasant Country
“In particular, in America the farmers’ holdings, in spite of their comparatively scattered nature, …were completely subjected by means of credit, by means of supplies, and by means of the control of outlets by big trading firms, banks, steamship, elevator … Continue reading
On the Separation of Liberalism from Democracy: Lenin 1913
Lenin, below writing a year before the start of First World War. During the build up toward the war most liberal and nominally socialist organizations supported their national governments rather than call for resistance to the war and solidarity of … Continue reading
Mature Capitalism V.3
Characteristics of Mature Capitalism Expanded and Revised: August 2013 Rawlinsview: August 6, 2013 In the journalistic back and forth of the “MSM” mainstream media and the dialogue familiar to the university student. One side of the conversation defends the “market” … Continue reading