I use drugs all the time, and I have a house, healthcare, and a job. Why should we deprive low-income and unhoused people of the freedoms we all engage in?
The 15th World Socialism Forum opened in Beijing on Monday, bringing together nearly 90 foreign communist leaders, Marxist scholars, social activists, and diplomatic representatives from 35 countries. The forum, themed "At the Crossroads of World History: The Choices of All Nations", focused on Chinese-style modernization, the rise of the Global South, and reforms in global governance to safeguard fairness and justice.
If you too love daydreaming about socialism, you'll probably love this book as much as I did! It's informative and well-researched, and also colorful and fun to read, and it made me nostalgic for public housing and a comprehensive welfare state. Some quick highlights (1/) #socialism #Germany #history
#cuba #socialism #socialismo Al respecto de esta noticia, yo le iba a sugerir a nuestro Presidente Miguel Díaz-Canel que le dijera esto al gobierno yanqui: "Gobierno de los Estados Unidos de América: Métanse por el culo su lista de países." Pero no sé si sonaría un poco arrogante....
Donald Trump revocó este lunes, en las primeras horas de su Presidencia, la orden del pasado 14 de enero con la que el expresidente Joe Biden sacó a Cuba de la lista de estados promotores del terrorismo.
Did you miss the online conference "Sortition and Socialism" yesterday? No worries! The whole thing was recorded, for your leisure 😊
Online Conference with these presenters:
- Dr. Camila Vergara - The relation between inequality and the law, and on alternative institutional solutions to systemic corruption. - Violeta Garrido - The epistemic demands of representative democracy - Christiana Mauro - From grand cause platforms to embedded constituent power. - Suryamayi Clarence-Smith - Evolving Prefigurative Politics in an Intentional Community.
Capitalism has not really raised people from extreme poverty. Most probably it has just pushed more and more people into extreme poverty over hundreds of years, in addition to making life miserable in general for so many.
The only time things have gotten better for regular people within capitalism is when workers organize and when people participate in anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist action.
