"when a citizenry gains the ability to democratically allocate funds, they grow increasingly excited about directing those funds to other participatory institutions, especially workers’ cooperatives"
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/organizing-beyond-the-point-of-production/
DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus
Organizing Beyond the Point of Production
Marxists tend to emphasize the importance of organizing labor in workplaces or “the point of production.” In this pamphlet, the author sketches out the limitations of a dogmatically labor-centric approach and outlines the radical potential of workers’ cooperatives…
"Much of what had once made Venezuela an attractive model was deeply contradictory. The Venezuelan process combined diverse forms of popular empowerment with ultra-charismatic leadership; redistribution of oil wealth that involved bureaucratic-military cliques sacking the resources of the state; communal democracy from below with authoritarian forms from above; a discourse of socialist planning with very limited capacity for public management"
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/implosion-bolivarian-revolution
Dissent Magazine
The Implosion of the Bolivarian Revolution | Dissent Magazine
Because anti-imperialist discourse in Latin America serves short-term political purposes, the latter-day defenders of Chavismo have little interest in studying the political dynamics and concrete geostrategic interests behind really existing empire.
"Okay, just so things are clear: a more egalitarian taxation system in Ireland is Trumpism, mildly criticizing political opponents is an electoral tactic pioneered by Trump, and the mild-mannered leader of a leftwing nationalist party promising affordable homes, tax reforms, and reunification is a Trump emulator. Right, got it. Makes total sense."
https://theoutline.com/post/8662/sinn-fein-trumpian-irish-election?zd=1&zi=a4yj7d2b
https://theoutline.com/post/8662/sinn-fein-trumpian-irish-election?zd=1&zi=a4yj7d2b
The Outline
If you can’t beat them, call them Trumpian
Ireland’s ascendent Sinn Féin party is nothing like Trump, but that hasn’t stopped critics from levying an increasingly banal attack.
"In our present moment, the rallying cry of “Elect progressive Democrats” rings woefully insufficient. We require a concerted and well-organized movement capable of overcoming the machinations of the establishment center—one that sustains the landscape-shifting power of Sanders’s public willingness to self-identify as a socialist."
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/how-to-have-a-party/
https://dsa-lsc.org/2017/09/30/how-to-have-a-party/
DSA Libertarian Socialist Caucus
How to Have a Party
How do we overcome the Democrats? Elaborating on the inside-outside strategy the author proposes the creation of a socialist “dual party” which coordinates campaigns and eventually politicians both within and outside the Democratic Party ballot line so they…
"It does not take a barricade-building socialist to recognize that our daily lives are not imbued with democratic notions and activities. We all know at the end of the day that our workplaces are dictatorships where a certain person, or group of persons, usually disconnected from the actual operation of the enterprise, run them with iron fists. If you step out of line, your punishment is the loss of your job, which pays the wage that provides for the means to live. There is a democracy deficit at work, and that deficit spreads to legislatures locally, nationally, and even internationally."
roarmag.org/essays/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism-review/
roarmag.org/essays/richard-wolff-understanding-socialism-review/
ROAR Magazine
Worker self-directed enterprises: the cure for capitalism
In his new book “Understanding Socialism,” Richard Wolff paves the way for a 21st century socialism that starts with democratizing the workplace.