One of several books Guyot wrote attacking socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this volume he provides a brief history of socialist ideas, especially socialist utopian thinking... More > from Plato to Paraguay, and an extensive critique of modern socialist ideas in France (Saint-Simon and Prooudhon) and Germany (Marx). In the tradition of Frédéric Bastiat, he criticises what he calls socialistic “sophisms” and “fallacies” such as the immiseration of the working class, the social class war, and the future of socialism under democracy. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1166&Itemid=27< Less
Fantastical Aspects of Socialist Architecture documents an academic research project on contemporary ideology, geopolitics and architecture conducted at Tyler School of Art_Architecture, Temple... More > University. During the advanced research studio with Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, the final year students at Tyler’s Architecture department, explored, visually articulated and expanded the myth about Barack Obama, the US President, as a Socialist. The book presents visual facts of what World-wide Socialist and leftist architecture really is and what is its future today. The book also brings visual speculation of “what if” Socialism took ground at the US Retreat site of Camp David. All pictures presented in this book are fantastical, fiction and they bare no links to any personal nor political representation in society and media of any kind.< Less
An outline of the work done by pioneering working men/socialists to remedy bad social conditions for example, housing and working conditions, hours of work and wages for their class.
In Palling Around with Socialists, a number of artists and the gallery collective have come together to curate an exhibition that questions the nature of an individual as an autonomous being or as a... More > component to an equitable community. Concerns about the nature of private property, authorship and current intersections between economics, ethics and philosophy will be raised through the work of Shinsuke Aso, Gabriel Boyce and Preston Link, Alton Falcone, David Horvitz, Justin Kemp, Steve Kemple, Julia Schwadron and Steve Lambert. The presented works continue to exercise aesthetic sensitivity, demonstrating a belief in form contributing to the advancement of concepts. Critically playful and directly engaging our community with optimistic, activist strategies, U·turn and these artists seek to contribute to a larger dialogue with art that presents unexpected viewpoints and makes note of abstractions that may expand upon or resituate current discussions about social responsibility, power and control.< Less
Some comrades in the Socialist Alliance say we should settle for a loose conglomeration of leftwing groups and local campaigns. For these comrades the word ‘party’, when it comes to the... More > Socialist Alliance, is an anathema. It is as if they were anarchists.
Of course such comrades already their own ‘party’. Jack Conrad argues, however, that there is no party. They are groups or, worse, sects. Members who disagree with the described ‘line’ are expected to gag themselves in public. Either that or face expulsion.
The Socialist Alliance must become a party and seek to arm itself with the most advanced theory. In reality, we already are a party in many senses. We have a common elected leadership, common election candidates and common finances. The Socialist Alliance is also officially registered as a party. What matters is not the name, but creating a genuine party ethos. Drawing on an extensive study of history, this booklet presents the ways and means at arriving at that end.< Less
Some comrades in the Socialist Alliance say we should settle for a loose conglomeration of leftwing groups and local campaigns. For these comrades the word ‘party’, when it comes to the... More > Socialist Alliance, is an anathema. It is as if they were anarchists.
Of course such comrades already their own ‘party’. Jack Conrad argues, however, that there is no party. They are groups or, worse, sects. Members who disagree with the described ‘line’ are expected to gag themselves in public. Either that or face expulsion.
The Socialist Alliance must become a party and seek to arm itself with the most advanced theory. In reality, we already are a party in many senses. We have a common elected leadership, common election candidates and common finances. The Socialist Alliance is also officially registered as a party. What matters is not the name, but creating a genuine party ethos. Drawing on an extensive study of history, this booklet presents the ways and means at arriving at that end.< Less
Democratic Socialism in Buddha Dharma is a text and Sutra all in one. Buddha-Guatama Siddartha,canbe consider one of teh world first Democtaic Socialist thinkers, and yet in consistency, even into... More > the WON Buddhist sect it is proven that Democratic Socialism
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In 2011 the Egyptian people inspired the world with their revolution that overthrow Hosni Mubarak. In just eighteen days, Mubarak’s nearly three decades-old dictatorship crumbled as Egyptian... More > workers exercised their power in the streets. Now, nearly two years later, the Egyptian people still labor under an oppressive government and their struggle for democracy and economic rights continues. Egypt in Revolt: Capitalist Reform vs. Socialist Revolution traces the Egyptian Revolution from its beginnings in February to 2011 to Mohamed Morsi’s election as president. Authors Clay Wadena and Andrew Pollack provide a Marxist analysis of the events and argue the need for Egyptian workers to build a revolutionary socialist party to lead a struggle for power.< Less
