Category Socialism

Moving beyond Leftist sects

Left Luggage Our essential reading for the weekend is a new article by The Commune’s Dave Spencer which aims to draw some lessons from his decades of experience with far-left groups. It’s a little heavy on obscure and now obsolete…

Time for empathetic capitalism?

Barron’s, that bastion of capitalism, calls for a kinder, gentler capitalism. Or at least a return to what it was meant to be. [Prime Minister Wen Jiabao Wen] is no paragon of economic and political freedom. Wen does, however, grasp…

Oh noes, I’m a social democrat

The Facebook “Which deviation are you” quiz has sternly informed me that I have grievously fallen from Correct Marxist Thinking. Should I denounce myself as anarcho / reformist slime and form a splinter group off myself? Surely that will be…