#Books

- The War Against Marxism: Reification and Revolution
- Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle: Strategies, Tactics, Objectives
- The Redress of Politics

"The Spanish Revolution, as it later became known, would become the largest and most extensive experiment in democratic workers self-management before or since. Everything from public utilities to bakeries to hospitals to shoe factories, fell under the control of the direct democratic unions and once their former bosses were chased from the premises, the workers began transforming the entirety of Spanish society along democratic lines. They pooled their collective resources and allocated them democratically for the benefit of Spanish society as a whole"

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"The US no longer can rule the world on its own and, even with the help of a ‘coalition of the willing’, it cannot dictate a ‘world order’."

thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/08/17/the-relative-decline-of-us-imperialism/

"Democratic socialism adopts a “foreign policy” that sheds the false claim to domestic social unity that nationalism rests on, instead grounding its relationship to the rest of the world on the organic fraternity of laboring humanity. Democratic socialism breaks down the artificial distinction between domestic and foreign affairs; after all, what national capital does abroad—trade, invest, exploit, plunder, make war— reverberates in the “homeland,” creating landscapes of industrial ruins, sweated labor, “wounded warriors,” military-industrial complexes, and a militarized society that in the end is bound to undermine democracy. Democratic socialism is an antidote to capitalist rivalry among nations and the subordination of the global South, whether those confrontations manifest as tariffs or troops."

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"Neoliberalism is more than a laundry list of policies and “best practices.” It is a holistic ethos and vision for society, one that aims to remake as many areas of life as possible on the model of market competition. This ambition extends from the global level down to the most intimate recesses of our self-image and self-worth—every country, every institution, every individual human being must be refashioned into a self-branding, self-promoting market competitor."

"How does neoliberalism justify such quasi-totalitarian aims? In the same way that every social order justifies itself: by presenting itself as a moral order that reflects unassailable moral values. Laws and policies and money and police officers are the source of any social order’s power, but its moral values are the source of its legitimacy. In the case of neoliberalism, the central value is freedom. Market competition is the best way to organize society in the neoliberal view because the market is all about people voluntarily coming together to freely choose between goods and services. Governments, labor unions, and collective politics are untrustworthy because they apply one-size-fits-all policies that don’t respect individual freedom."

https://christiansocialism.com/neoliberalism-joe-biden-covid-demons-theology/

european capitalism

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