Despite their successes early in the century, Socialists in office in America would become much more rare moving forward.
If slavery was a moral test of socialism, then abolition was verification that socialism could change the foundations of society, and that perhaps a more just and equal world was possible.
These are life and death problems! Waiting for neoliberalism to find a way to solve the problem while still making a return for investors is deadly!
If we are to consider Paine a socialist, he would likely be the most revolutionary of the socialists I will speak of in this series.
When the system is capitalism, the reward maximized will generally be profit even if this comes at the cost of human health or our environment.
We need more with the moral fortitude to join such a movement and help us design this new world together.
“What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our cooperation.”
We should begin to dismantle the systems that encourage recidivism and trap people into lives of petty crimes just to survive.
It should have been clear to us that a man who overturns any international election he doesn’t like would be inclined to do the same when the electorate turned against him.