Why Not Socialism?

Socialism or barbarism.

America s Socialism for the Rich

Socialism or Global Division?

I mention Socialism you say, still worse.

Germany invented socialism.

Countries that chose socialism all went bankrupt.

In 1906 his Why is there no Socialism in the United States?

Much of what socialism built needed to be undone.

Socialism has nothing to do with the ratio of public ownership!

To them, socialism means European , or simply un American.

His party, Movement for Socialism, also won a two thirds majority in both houses of the National Congress.

By returning most state owned industries to private ownership, the Thatcher revolution killed off state socialism.

You may doubt socialism, but you cannot doubt advanced productive forces.

For Stern, this was part of the cultural soil in which National Socialism flourished.

Communism and socialism do not command public support as they once did.

The Venezuelan is digging his own grave, his own interpretation of a statist socialism.

But the ruling ideology is no longer socialism it is a form of ethnic nationalism, with a great deal of military swagger.

Socialism is on the rise again across Europe, at least in opinion polls.

Commerce is ancient. Markets are very old. Capitalism is fairly recent socialism emerged as a reaction to that.

Socialism became a mess as great expectations of a workers' paradise were bogged down in bureaucracy.

To build Socialism in one country is impossible nowadays because all of Europe s economies are now interdependent.

Workers don't protest against menial jobs in capitalistic Wenzhou but against no jobs in socialist Shenyang.

So, China s socialism with Chinese characteristics is an economy where an increasing share of national income goes to the state.

Socialism, too, was a brave and necessary corrective to the social inequalities that emerged from laissez faire capitalism.

Watered down by the compromises without which liberal democracies cannot thrive, socialism did a great deal of good in Western Europe.

The government cannot pay unemployed workers their pensions because socialism has bankrupted its finance.

GOELRO s (State Organization for the Reconstruction and Development of the Soviet People s Economy) slogan was Socialism means Soviet rule plus electrification of the country.

Socialism collapsed a decade ago because it became discredited in the eyes of the peoples who lived under it.

Despite great difficulties and tensions, today s post communist capitalism is still better than the degenerate and tyrannical real socialism of yesterday.

The result is a form of state socialism whose major beneficiary is a well connected business elite that excludes genuine entrepreneurs and their employees.

Chinese news websites reported he had bought up copies of the book for his colleagues so that they could understand socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Russia instead jumped into democracy, and only then worried about replacing socialism with a market system.

The last leader to try go it alone socialism, French President François Mitterrand in 1981, surrendered to the European institutions in 1983.

For Friends of the Earth, Cuba continues to be a reference model for socialist processes a socialism that contains all the hardships of a historic model that is permanently renovating itself.

The last leader to try go it alone socialism, French President François Mitterrand in 1981, surrendered to the European institutions in 1983.

But as health expenses start taking up a third of national income, healthcare socialism starts becoming just plain Marxism to each according to his needs.

The Soviet Union wasn t ideologically anti Western, because Communism and Socialism were Western inventions, but it was anti Western in political terms.

And yet, there they are, denouncing as socialism Obama s health care legislation, or a slight tax increase for the richest 1 of the population.

True, it once spawned the radical Muslim Brotherhood, but it also gave birth to Islamic socialism and anti colonialism, Arab unity, and now a democratic affirmation of the people s will.

There are still a few unreformed Socialist states left North Korea and Cuba, for example, even a couple new acolytes Venezuela and Bolivia.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action. This type of nationalism, or Arab socialism, reached its apex during the Cold War, when it could lean on Soviet military, political, and economic support.

The ideological evolution of the Polish students led in the opposite direction from efforts to improve socialism in the name of true Marxism to anti totalitarian opposition and the construction of a free civil society.

By the time Blair, following the example of his friend US President Bill Clinton, became Prime Minister by promoting the third way, socialism seemed to be dead and buried.

This type of nationalism, or Arab socialism, reached its apex during the Cold War, when it could lean on Soviet military, political, and economic support.