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"Socialism is a utopian fantasy."
Now here's an anti-socialist complaint for the ages! Never mind that this particular utopian fantasy, the one we call "socialism," has motivated the most powerful global movement to change the world...
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ACM: 31 March 2013 an ACM Introduction
I have been thinking about how to introduce some of the methodologies we use in DK to augment the basic liberalism and progressivism necessary to produce more and better Democrats. This piece is...
View ArticleSocialism is like Sweden y'know.
This one is a variant of the "Omigod the Soviet Union!" phenomenon which made the rec list a couple of months back. People who use devices like "socialism is like Sweden y'know" are essentially trying...
View Article"Socialism has never happened before."
The idea behind this one, failing the false logic of "Omigod the Soviet Union," is that if socialism has never happened before it will never happen. "Name a society where your version of socialism has...
View ArticleSocialism is like total equality y'know.
(also at VOTS)My socialism diary today was prompted by this otherwise laudable video, now making the rounds on Facebook:Short synopsis: most people think the distribution of wealth is X, which isn't...
View ArticleHow and why organizations fail
This would seem to be a simple subject. Yet it is not. I have written and published on this topic from my perspective as a complexity theorist. A New Approach to a Theory of Management: Manage the...
View ArticleWhy I don't claim to be a progressive
(crossposted at Voices on the Square and at Firedoglake)Back in 2009 I wrote a diary over at Kos: Fundamental flaws in progressive ideology. The point was to show how the idea of being a "progressive"...
View ArticleNot If But When: A democratic Uprising in the United States
UPDATE 2:Comrades,I'm sorry to sully this post by doing actual, you know, writing, but I want to say that the reaction this post indicates that the hunger for radical overhaul transcends the usual...
View ArticleThis is a conservative country.
(crossposted to VOTS and to Firedoglake)This diary is eighth in a series on "excuses for why we can't have socialism." Previous entries:Socialism is like total equality y'know.Socialism has never...
View Article"Capitalism will last indefinitely."
This is the ninth diary of a series on excuses for "why we can't have socialism." The argument that goes that socialism is impossible because capitalism will last indefinitely, and prevent any and all...
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Anti-Capitalist Meetup: Don’t Buy the Hype: The Gender Wage Gap and Women's...
Accordingly to an article entitled, “More Women Are bringing Home the Bacon…, ” heralding women’s gains in pay equity, a recent Pew study revealed that an impressive number of married breadwinner moms...
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ACM: 30 June 2013 A Ghost in a Machine walks the Globe
If one can claim that a virtual economy offers increased possibility for revolutionary political change, that change should be measured against more material forms of analysis rather than treating...
View Article'You're never going to get pure socialism."
Part ten in a series: excuses for "why we can't have socialism." Previous entries:Capitalism will last indefinitely.This is a conservative country.Socialism is like total equality y'know.Socialism has...
View ArticleWhat do the Important People think of the (possible) end of capitalism?
A lot of what I'm getting over the Internet these days is an attitude that, because I'm asking questions, this means that I have some sort of attitude that they don't like. Let me suggest an...
View ArticleLet's see some optimism around here, eh?
This diary is of course a response to a previous diary, which was on the Rec List at Kos when I woke up Thursday morning. "What happened to the energy of hope here at DailyKos?" AntonBursch said...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: New Era Windows- Symbol of a New Workers Movement
This diary is primarily a recompilation of research and articles written by Laura Flanders for Grit TV this summer. LAURA FLANDERS is the host of The Laura Flanders Show coming to public television...
View ArticleOn the false equivalence between "Obama rox" and "Obama sux"
Every once in awhile one can read diaries here at DailyKos.com claiming some kind of equivalence between "Obama rox" and "Obama sux" positions. This serves as a sort of rhetorical device: if the two...
View ArticleOptimism in light of pessimism
So why be optimistic? This theme came up in a previous diary, and I'd like to revisit it, because I rather doubt that my previous answer satisfied my reading audience. The idea that we can be...
View ArticlePostcapitalism and the "Left"
As I have edged around this concept in several previous diaries, now is a good time for me to state outright what I have only hinted previously.There really isn't a "Left" in the United States, or more...
View ArticleAnti-Capitalist Meetup: What Is Capitalism? Part I
There have appeared in this space several thought-provoking attempts to define capitalism, including here and here. Although this might seem to some a mere academic exercise, nothing could be further...
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