Category Socialism

Respect / SWP. The bigger issues

There’s an interesting discussion on Marxmail on the Respect / SWP donnybrook, discussing how the party-building doctrine of a Marxist vanguard sometimes means they use mass organizations as recruiting and propaganda tools rather than as a way to work with…

Socialism and buying puts

While I espouse socialism, I’ve also been buying puts on homebuilder stocks. Contradiction? Maybe, but we do live in a capitalist world. Puts are stock options. They give the buyer the right but not the obligation to sell 100 shares…