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Call for HEI Partners/Academic Supervisors to supervise a PhD with BL European collections curators on 'Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South' - includes support from us in @…

Yugoslav socialism, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Global South
Learn how Yugoslavia forged a unique path between East and West.

"President Trump’s recent economic moves have accidentally created the very socialist system his supporters claim to despise. Through a series of interventions that would make any central planner proud, the champion of free enterprise has become America’s most effective socialist leader."
‘Marxism-Trumpism?’ Trump’s try at a planned economy is still socialism.
https://thehill.com/opinion/5512143-marxism-trumpism-trumps-try-at-a-planned-economy-is-still-socialism/

🎲 Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
#inequality

Luck Shouldn’t Determine Our Fates
Socialists accept that some degree of inequality may be inevitable in a complex society. But there’s one kind of inequality that’s intolerable: the kind where resources are allocated according to factors that individuals can’t control.

#Fascism #Socialism

The Sewer Socialism of Zohran Mamdani (E. J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/opinion/mamdani-nyc-mayor-sewer-socialism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p24#a251016p24

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"
Social Security - "That's socialism!"
Debt free education - "That's socialism!"
Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"
$1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."
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good piece. be warned there's a Garry Tan jump scare. #sfPol
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/san-francisco-zohran-democratic-socialism

San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.

I joined Labour 3 times.Never again.
"Questions arise for members of the Labour Party. Why would one join a party where being a member means only paying subs and having no voice? Why would one join a party which is itself host to the enemies not only of socialism but of mild social democratic reform? Why would anyone on the left join an organisation that required you to battle the party bureaucracy before you could battle the true political opposition?"

Cuban-born biotech honcho enters NYC mayoral race seeking to upset Mamdani: 'I despise socialism' (Rich Calder/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/08/16/us-news/cuban-born-biotech-honcho-enters-crowded-nyc-mayoral-race-seeking-to-upset-mamdani-i-hate-socialism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p70#a250816p70

When you start to see that capitalism is nothing but systemic exploitation and domination, and that Marxism-Leninism only reproduces the same state capitalism under another name through authoritarian state socialism, you then realize that leftist parties don’t actually bring about any fundamental change, because they to keep power rigidly centralized, to preserve existing hierarchies, and to maintain the dominance of the ruling classes.
If you want a genuine alternative, one built on w…

🌹 New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
#politics

New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream
A national poll from Jacobin, DSA Fund, and Data for Progress finds broad support for democratic socialist leaders and left-wing policies.

Live your truth MAGA
#MAGA #socialism

Every company that has ever been involved with fascism, slavery, or exploitation of labor should have open statements like this on their website
But I'm impressed that BMW is this blunt about it — and has actual pictures of Dachau
https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/histo…

“If ‘state capitalism’ were proposed by Democrats or progressives, it would be considered socialism or communism. Done by a neofascist president — as chronicled by the The Wall Street Journal — it’s simply considered inefficient (as the Journal concludes).” - @…

Trump’s “State Capitalism”
It would be communism under any other dictator

💗 The Point of Politics Is to Convince People, Not Grandstand
#politics

The Point of Politics Is to Convince People, Not Grandstand
Instead of trying to persuade the hundreds of millions of Americans to our right, sometimes we leftists seem to be competing to prove our radical bona fides to each other. That’s not politics — it’s just wasting precious time.

Compared to what I usually read, Karl Marx’s Das Kapital is a much longer and more demanding work, both in length and in conceptual depth.
#KarlMarx #Marxism #Socialism

Trump's private sector intervention causes heartburn on right
https://rollcall.com/2025/09/05/trump-intel-socialism-republicans-economy/

European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol

🌹 Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History
#politics

Zohran Mamdani Is Part of Municipal Socialism’s Long History
If he wins the New York City mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani will not be in totally uncharted territory. A long line of municipal-level socialists in the United States and around the world have been in his position before.

What to Know About Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism (Jeffery C. Mays/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-democratic-socialism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p103#a250831p103

New Poll: Democratic Socialism Is Now Mainstream | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-09-16/new-poll-democratic-socialism-now-mainstream

#Socialism #Venezuela

Sen. Rick Scott to fly banner urging New Yorkers who 'hate socialism' to move to Florida: 'We have better beaches' (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/us-news/sen-rick-scott-to-fly-banner-urging-new-yorkers-who-hate-socialism-to-move-to-florida/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p116#a250725p116

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SI/new
[1/1]:
- Confrontation of capitalism and socialism in Wikipedia networks
Leonardo Ermann, Dima L. Shepelyansky

Not clear on the definition of Fascism?
Benito Mussolini 1932
#TeaParty #MAGA
"Fascism was not the nursling of a doctrine previously drafted at a desk; it was born of the need of action, and was action; it was not a party but, in the first two years, an anti-party and a movement.”
#Democracy #Freedom #Autocracy
“[Fascism] is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State”
#PersonalIdentity
"Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State..”
#WorkersRights #Corporate #Billionnaires
"Fascism is likewise opposed to trade unionism as a class weapon. But when brought within the orbit of the State, Fascism recognizes the real needs which gave rise to socialism and trade unionism, giving them due weight in the guild or corporative system in which divergent interests are coordinated and harmonized in the unity of the State.
#SelfExpression #Trans #LGBTQ
"if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism…”
#totalitarianism
"Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people”
#austerity
"life, as conceived of by the Fascist, is serious, austere, and religious; The Fascist disdains an “easy " life.”
#environment #climatechange #peace #war
"[Fascism] does not believe in the possibility of "happiness" on earth … it therefore rejects the theological notion that at some future time the human family will secure a final settlement of all its difficulties.”

🤑 San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
#california

San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.

#Anarchism #Syndicalism #Socialism #Humor

Moderate Democrats must denounce socialism, not help rebrand it (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5495127-political-extremism-threat-america/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p103#a250910p103

OMG, SOCIALISM!
Trump bailout for trade-hit US farmers expected this week | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-bailout-trade-hit-us-farmers-expected-this-week-2025-10-06/

Socialism:
Trump plans to aid soybean farmers with tariff funds
https://thehill.com/business/5533676-soybean-farmers-trump-tariff-aid/

#Capitralism #Activism #Socialism #AntiCapitalism

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Communism

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Communism