Questions tagged [socialism]
Questions related to the political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
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Why does the left support the blank slate theory? [closed]
Why does the left (maybe not the entire left) support the blank slate theory (see here for instance)?
By left, I mean the diverse movements/ideologies adhering in a form or another, to a much or ...
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The flaw in the [rationalism = utopian = socialism] and [empiricism = realism = liberalism] Burkean argument
Hayek (1948) introduced this now famous dichotomy, certainly in the continuity of Edmund Burke, between "true individualism" (of the British empiricist tradition) and the "false ...
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What's the relation between "social-liberalism" and "socialism"?
What's the relation between "social-liberalism" and "socialism"?
Social liberalism seems to have emerged out of liberal circles, more than workers movements or typical (proto-)...
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What are the main influences of the French "republican socialists" (Pierre Leroux, Louis Blanc, Jean-Jaurès)?
What are the main influences of the French "republican socialists" (e.g. Pierre Leroux, Louis Blanc, Jean-Jaurès)?
In particular, can we trace back their ideology to Saint-Simon and Comte, ...
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How is capital investment supposed to happen in an economy of workers co-ops?
Socialists have proposed that capitalist companies (organisations owned and controlled by shareholders) should be replaced by co-operatives (organisations owned and controlled by their workers).
Where ...
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What is the difference between left communism and anarcho-communism?
I was reading about the term tankie on Wikipedia and it lead me to other terms such as red fascism and left communism. The Wikipedia articles on Left Communism and Left Communists (Weimar Republic) ...
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How did the long march through the institutions, as theorized by Dutschke and Gramsci, take place concretely?
How did the long march through the institutions, as theorized by Dutschke and Gramsci, take place concretely?
A definition of this theory by Wikipedia:
The long march through the institutions (German:...
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In Marxist view: does liberal democracy increase alienation of workers?
In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Marx writes:
First, that the work is external to the worker, that it is not part of
his nature; and that, consequently, he does not fulfill himself ...
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Which western communist parties use crypto for donations? [closed]
Being aware of Russia's political scene, I noticed that some Communist organizations (specifically Anarcho-Communists) use cryptocurrencies for donations.
I noticed that a lot of Western Communist ...
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Was socialism popular on US college campuses around 1920?
I'm reading Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! It is well-known that he was a socialist, and of course, the notion of socialism is a strong theme in his writing. In Oil!, a young man is enrolled in a ...
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We are individually striving for wealth to be independent from necessity to work. Why society as whole is unwilling to be independent from work? AI [closed]
My question is arising from recent ChatGTP & plugins developments which provides the great tools for automation of jobs.
I can observe that people individually are striving to gain wealth and the ...
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Has Charles Fourier's utopian socialism any relation with 19th century romanticism literary movement?
Has Charles Fourier's utopian socialism (and its 20th century heirs, if any) a relation with 19th century romanticism literary movement?
His ideas recall me a lot of the writings of the ...
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Is this communist-like economic ideology already a thing?
Everyone knows what communism is, and generally in the real world it doesn’t work out for the people. Communism has many flaws and after a long while of thinking how these flaws can be fixed it became ...
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Any successful example of democratic socialism in Latin America/South America that lasted at least twenty years?
Yes, I know there are versions of authoritarian socialism in South America that have been tried, but I want to know if there are any successful democratic socialist communities that lasted at least ...
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What are some criticisms of communism/socialism from a left wing perspective?
Typically, socialism and communism are criticized from a right wing perspective but I was curious on some left-wing critiques of socialism/communism. One source I found states
Since the split of the ...
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