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Marxist scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood had a towering intellect
Barely five feet tall but considered an intellectual giant, Marxist scholar and political science professor Ellen Meiksins Wood was instrumental in making Toronto’s York University a centre for the radical critique of social and political thought toward the end of the 20th century.
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The Uses and Abuses of ‘Civil Society’
We should not confuse respect for the plurality of human experience and social struggles with a complete dissolution of historical causality, where there is nothing but diversity, difference, and contingency, no unifying structures, no logic of process, no capitalism and therefore no negation of it, no universal project of human emancipation.
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Of course ‘socialism’ was most-searched term of 2015: its ideas fit our times
There is a decisive mood of resistance in America – a backlash to the status quo. The Bernie Sanders campaign for president is capturing that mood, and it is no surprise that ‘socialism’ was the most looked-up word in 2015.
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Today’s NDP, socialism, and the party’s legacy
What the NDP needs is a combination of its existing social progressivism with a recommitment to the principles of economic democracy and a healthy skepticism of capitalism, argues Canadian Dimension columnist Christo Aivalis. This, and not electoral opportunism, is the enduring legacy of the democratic socialist tradition in Canada.
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Quebec left debates perspectives in Canada’s federal election
At stake in this election is the fate of the Harper government, the most reactionary government since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Only two opposition parties can realistically hope to replace the Conservatives: the New Democratic Party and the Liberals. Both are neoliberal, with no substantial programmatic differences.
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Syriza: For Better or For Worse
The victory of Syriza in Greece is a historic turning point for Europe and the world, for better or for worse. I fear it’s going to be the latter.
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‘There is no Alternative Unless We Build One’: Reinventing Socialist Politics
We now know well that the transition from private to state property alone does not lead to workers’ power and self-government. Socialists have built different types of parties since the Manifesto was written. These are all part of the left history, of failures and defeats, of resistances and victories.
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Want to Rebuild the Left? Take Socialism Seriously
The American left will have to build outside the Republican and Democratic parties, whose leaders have repeatedly demonstrated that they will go to any lengths to defend the superwealthy and protect the capitalist system. Progress can happen only by building independent working-class power.
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SYRIZA’s Two Months in Government: Difficulties and Challenges
No one ever said that social transformation and the democratization of state–society relations is a picnic. With the radical party culture of Syriza as a guarantee, it is something that can be done, so long as we are conscious that class struggle does not stop at the door step of the party.
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Lies and Deceptions on the Left: The Politics of Self-Destruction
Over the past year, what appeared as hopeful signs, that Left governments were emerging as powerful alternatives to right-wing pro-US regimes, is turning into a historic rout, which will relegate them to the dustbin of history for many years to come. Increasingly, the electorate views the leftist rulers as traitors, who betrayed their supporters at the beck and call of their most egregious class enemies.