I don’t think government-owned grocery stores, housing and telcos are a good response, not that I have any objection to so-called government intervention, but because they don’t put ownership of these essential public services into the hands of the people. It’s just far too easy for a non-socialist government to take power and undercut or…
What is there’s no democratic road to socialism? Now I want to be clear here about what I mean by this: – by ‘socialism’ I mean a society defined by social values, as opposed to the all-encompassing definition of society by capital. In my previous post, I suggested: mechanisms such as defining some things as being…
What would it take to go from reforms within the capitalist system to a democratic socialist society? That’s a much tougher question than it may seem at first glance. The ‘capitalist system’ is based essentially on the idea that we can earn income through ownership, and not through labour alone. With no effective limits on…