Revolutionary Socialism is the Primary Political Ideology of The Red Nation

 https://therednation.org/revolutionary-socialism-is-the-primary-political-ideology-of-the-red-nation-2/

~~ -postedfor collectivist ~~

Slavoj Žižek: Last Exit to Socialism ~~ SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/slavoj-zizek-climate-change-global-warming-nature-ecological-crises-socialism-final-exit

Slavoj Žižek writes in Jacobin that today's exploding ecological crises open up a realistic prospect of the final exit of humanity itself. Might socialism be our off-ramp, or is it already too late?

~~ recommended by a guest contributor ~~

Socialism and the Intellectuals ~~ Paul Lafargue Socialism and the Intellectuals

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1900/03/socint.htm

India Walton Is a Sign of What the Socialist Movement Could Become ~~ GABRIEL WINANT

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/india-walton-buffalo-mayor-rust-belt-health-postindustrial-workers-socialist-black-vote-race-class

~~ recommended by a guest contributor ~~

No Color-Blind Road to Socialism in the U.S. ~~ Danny Haiphong

https://www.laprogressive.com/a-racist-and-imperialist-state/~~

~~ posted for Collectivist ~~

What Life Means to Me ~~ Jack London

https://www.marxists.org/archive/london/revolution/ch13.htm

First introduced to me by an old friend.  This resonates to this day.

The economics of laziness ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/630/630_08_Laziness.php

From the Meaning of Marxism Series

PAUL D'AMATO explains why a socialist society would produce a flowering of universal creativity.

Solutions: A How-To Guide for Citizens in a Dying Empire ~~ Maxwell

Let me package a "solution" for you in nice and pretty, American-style,

wrapping. All slick and shiny and ready for you to take home.

Isn't socialism about conformity? ~~ Paul D'Amato

https://socialistworker.org/2006-1/590/590_09_MakeSame.php

From the Meaning of Marxism Series

SOCIALISM WILL make us all like the same. This claim is, to quote the British journalist Paul Foot, "delicately stoked by the press and television of a capitalist society which is increasingly stamping sameness and conformity on its working people."

Are Workers “Smart Enough” to Govern Under Socialism? ~~ Gordon Haskell

Gordon Haskell - 20 September 1948
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/haskell/1948/09/socdem.html
 
"In our present set-up the man who gets to the top is usually the man blessed by rich parents, good connections, or a willingness to grind his fellow humans under his heel."

“A few months ago,” says my friend Jack to me the other day, “you were telling me about how the workers and farmers and other people that do something useful will run things once they wake up and take over from the monopolists and politicians and the rest of the riff-raff that has the world by the tail these days.”

Bolivia: A hero’s welcome — Inside Evo Morales’ triumphant return tour ~~ Oliver Vargas

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/bolivia-heros-welcome-inside-evo-morales-triumphant-return-tour

~~ posted for Collectivist~~

The return of Evo Morales to Bolivia on November 9, one day after President Luis Arce’s inauguration, marked the formal end of last year’s United States-backed coup.

Rosa Luxemburg's Revolutionary Socialism ~~ Paul Leblanc

https://socialistworker.org/2019/01/15/rosa-luxemburgs-revolutionary-socialism

TEN YEARS after the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in January 1919, playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht wrote in his typically stark, homely verse:

Red Rosa now has vanished too.
Where she lies is hid from view.
She told the poor what life’s about.
And so now the rich have rubbed her out.

Luxemburg was born in 1871, in a Poland divided under German and Russian domination, and she played a role in the working-class socialist movement of each country.

Yet her influence has been global. She was part of a mass working-class movement seeking a transition from capitalism to socialism. The decades following her death saw increasing crises and finally a half-century decline and collapse of that movement.

What Socialists Would Do in America—If They Could

- https://www.dissentmagazine.org

“Capitalism is dying,” wrote Michael Harrington forty years ago. “It will not, however, disappear on a given day, or in a given month or even year. Its demise will take place as a his­toric process that could lead to democratic so­cialism—or to a new kind of collectivist and authoritarian society.”

Michael Harrington ▪ Fall 1978

The Neoliberal Road to Serfdom ~~ Branko Marcetic

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/03/neoliberalism-totalitarianism-surveillance-hayek-socialism?fbclid=IwAR3574vPPFWTXyt4Z9xkXeSJQfd-IfJ6v4ZQSkdhlvu_MKff8zwoRNVs38w

~~ Posted for Collectivist ~~

The fear of socialism is mostly based on one idea: that the end of the road of bigger government is the totalitarian horror of the early twentieth century.

Sure, there are other objections, usually involving muttered words like “market” and “efficiency.” But for the fathers of neoliberalism like Friedrich Hayek, what it really came down to was the fear that every increase in the role of the state was just one more step toward the chimneys of Dachau: power concentrated among a know-it-all elite deaf to the problems facing its people; ever-present surveillance of the population, whether “suspect” or not; a vast, armed bureaucracy ready to stamp out dissent; countless bodies locked and tortured in prisons; and a state that asserts the power to treat its citizens as mere subjects while demanding secrecy and impunity for itself.

Is Socialism Practical? ~~ Daniel DeLeon

IS SOCIALISM PRACTICAL?

by
Daniel DeLeon

https://www.marxists.org/archive/deleon/works/1906/060903.htm

The Daily People  Sept. 3, 1906

The “practical” man sneers at socialism as visionary, unattainable, and without any immediate social value.

Immersed in his own private affairs, and judging the world from the limited horizon which they afford, he fails to perceive that socialism is the only vital economic, political and moral force of modern times.

Socialism - What Will it Look Like? ~~ Paul D'Amato

 https://socialistworker.org/2004-1/495/495_09_Socialism.php

Socialism: What will it look like?

By Paul D'Amato | April 16, 2004 | Page 9

"WE KNOW what you're against. What are you for/" is a question that we socialists get a lot. Socialism was well summed up by Eugene Debs: "The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interests of all the people! That is the demand.

"The elimination of rent, interest and profit and the production of wealth to satisfy the wants of all the people! That is the demand. The end of...class rule, of master and slave, of ignorance and vice, of poverty and shame, of cruelty and crime...That is the demand."

Socialism in the Era of Globalisation

 https://cpim.org/content/socialism-era-globalisation

by Sitaram Yechury

Globalisation, as the present phase of world capitalist development is known as, is a development that can be understood mainly on the basis of the internal laws and the dynamics of the functioning of the capitalist economic system. Karl Marx, in his seminal work Das Kapital, had shown us that as capitalism develops, it leads to the concentration and centralisation of capital in a few hands. As a result of this law, huge amounts of capital get accumulated. This, in turn, needs to be deployed to earn profits which is the raison d'etre of the system.

Can A Socialist Revolution Be Peaceful?

https://socialistparty.ie/2010/11/can-a-socialist-revolution-be-peaceful/

Author Not Transferred, Nov 1, 2010 

The question of violence and whether we can change the world through peaceful means is a question asked often of socialists. People are generally put off by the idea of conflict, and can find talk of revolution unsettling. It conjures images of armed struggle, civil war and chaos, things that any sane person would find distressing.

So how should socialists relate to the question of violence? Understanding the role of violence in social change requires an explanation of the forces that exist in capitalist society.