Today, there is no completely socialist country or government. Even countries like Sweden that are often labeled as socialist have capitalist economies based on free markets and competition. China is a communist, one-party state that still has many privately owned corporations and businesses. Even ...
in the period before 1914; ‘socialist realism’ (like ‘socialism in one country’) belongs to the Stalinist period in theSoviet Union; ‘socialist feminism’ to Western scholarship of a later date. To array these composite terms historically in order to arrive at the meaning of their least...
In Calvinism,the second great bourgeois upheaval found its doctrine ready cut and dried.This upheaval took place in England.The middle-class of the towns brought it on,and the yeomanry of the country districts fought it out.Curiously enough,in all the three great bourgeois risings,the peasantry...
in the period before 1914; ‘socialist realism’ (like ‘socialism in one country’) belongs to the Stalinist period in the Soviet Union; ‘socialist feminism’ to Western scholarship of a later date. To array these composite terms historically in order to arrive at the meaning of their least...
It’s gotten so bad that some folks on the left arenow disavowingtheir former favorite country. But of all the columns I’ve written about Venezuela, the one that stands out in my mind wasthe one I wrote in 2020about how theNew York Timeswrote a long report about that country’s econo...
themselves, legally and economically, as the privileged class of the conquered country. They seized for themselves a monopoly of the land ownership and appointed a priesthood from among their own ranks. The priests, in control of education, made the class division of society into a permanent ...
And this lesson was emphasized and enlarged by the Cooperative movement, which, springing from the tiny efforts of the Rochdale Pioneers, spread throughout the country, till it is now one of the mightiest business organizations in the world. In this movement many a labor leader learnt habits ...
In a mostly capitalist country, like the US in the 1880s, there are many different kinds of business organizations: There are for-profit corporations, non-profit corporations, sole proprietorships, partnerships, credit unions, retailers’ cooperatives, consumers’ cooperatives, and employee cooperatives...
In addition, many socialistic organizations and political parties no longer want to be associated with the word communism, after the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc essentially changed the meaning of the word communism from "a stateless, money-less, global society without private ownership of ...
The locutions, ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,’‘socialism in one country,’‘socialist realism,’‘socialist internationalism’ (in its twentieth-century Soviet version, which meant subservience to the foreign policy of the USSR), the fact that after World War Two the East German ...