Best Notes: Socialism in Europe and The Russian Revolution.
Socialist Revolutionary Party, Russian Sotsialisty Revolyutsionery (SR, or ESERY), Russian political party that represented the principal alternative to the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party during the last years of Romanov rule. Ideological heir to the Narodniki (Populists) of the 19th century, the party was founded in 1901 as a rallying point for agrarian socialists, whose appeal was.
One of the most important theoretical challenges facing us is developing a viable alternative to capitalism. Achieving this requires rethinking basic premises of social theory and practice, given the difficulties of freeing humanity from such problems as alienation, class domination, and the capitalist law of value. Taking off from Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism, this.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted that 'for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.' Fifty years on, this predi.
A short note on liberals I, like a good number of people on this sub, got into far left wing ideologies fairly recently-- some maybe as recent as the Bernie movement. I was once a liberal because I cared about workers and the poor.
Socialism, by Michael Newman, is a book which is lucid and thoughtful, accessible yet undiluted and informative without being boring. It is extremely difficult to write a comprehensive book on a topic like Socialism that fits in the Very Short Introduction category, and the author has done an impressive job in achieving that feat. I am glad that I have read this book.
The Indian novelist Mulk Raj Anand passed away at the grand old age of 98 last September. He was arguably the greatest exponent of Indian writing in English, whose literary output was infused with a political commitment that conveyed the lives of India’s poor in a realistic and sympathetic manner.
Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate. Karl Marx used the terms interchangeably. For many, however, the difference can be seen in the two phases of communism as outlined by Marx. The first is a transitional system in which the working class controls the government and economy yet still pays people according to how long, hard, or well they work.