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| | Democratic socialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The fact that one specific movement is called Democratic Socialism does not mean that other branches of socialism must be any less democratic. | | | The boundaries of what might be categorized as "democratic socialism" are thus necessarily fluid. | | | Democratic socialists advocating direct action may tend to similar positions with anarcho-syndicalism (with which democratic socialism shares the characteristics of being both anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian), although democratic socialists characteristically do not regard the state itself as an evil to be abolished. |
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| | Democratic socialism - encyclopedia article about Democratic socialism. |
| | The fact that one specific movement is called Democratic Socialism does not mean that other branches of socialism must be any less democratic. | | | Democratic socialists advocating direct action may tend to similar positions with anarcho-syndicalism (with which democratic socialism shares the characteristics of being both anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian), although democratic socialists characteristically do not regard the state itself as an evil to be abolished. | | | With respect to the means of production, many revolutionary democratic socialists prefer to use the term "social ownership" rather than "nationalization", because the latter is often associated with social-democratic style state ownership by the bureacracy of a parliamentary state. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/democratic+socialism
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| | socialism.htm |
| | Since the 1920s, however, socialism has been only a marginal element in US political life and leading American socialists such as Norman Thomas (1884-1968) and Michael Harrington (1929-1989) have functioned more as social democratic critics and champions of social justice than leaders of a vanguard party. | | | In 1959, the German Social Democratic Party formally abandoned explicitly revolutionary intent, while in 1995 the British Labour Party rescinded Clause Four of its 1919 constitution that had called for full public ownership of the means of production and distribution. | | | No serious socialist-a member, say of the Socialist Party of the United States or the Democratic Socialists of America-would credit the Democratic Party or any leading Democratic politician or spokesman with being a fellow socialist. |
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http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rzieger/socialism.htm
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| | It didn't happen here: Why socialism failed in the United States The failure of reformism, not socialism |
| | The success or failure of socialism is implicitly defined as the existence of a reformist labor or social democratic party based on the trade unions. | | | Its central thesis boils down to the assertion that the absence of a mass social democratic or labor party in the US demonstrates that socialism is unrealizable in the heart of world capitalism. | | | The work is not a serious historical investigation of American socialism, even from a pro-capitalist perspective. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/mar2002/book-m06.shtml
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| | Heads Up #169: STUDYING THE FAR LEFT -- I [Free Republic] |
| | It could also be called "Hard Left" because the site is a proponent of socialism in the United States. | | | The Fairness Agenda (the full text is also available) is based on seven principles: Dignified Work, Environmental Justice, Economic Redistribution, Democratic Participation, Community Empowerment, Global Non-Violence, and Social Justice." These are the people responsible for all kinds of stupid federal laws, rules and regulations over the years. | | | To defeat the problem of rampant socialism in the United States, we must first know who the players are and understand their means and methods. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a389cb6061ac7.htm
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| | Socialism in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | American Socialism was based on Marxist ideology today known as “Democratic Socialism.” As a movement, the eventual goal was to give control of major industries to their respective employees, relinquishing “capital to those who create it,” as well as establish a welfare state, universal suffrage, and politically empower the [oppressed] working class, or “proletariat.” | | | De Leon's opponents, led by Morris Hillquit, left the Socialist Labor Party in 1901 and fused with Eugene V. Debs' Social Democratic Party and formed the Socialist Party of America. | | | The United States Department of Justice sponsored an organization known as the American Protective League, which kept track of cases of “disloyalty.” It eventually claimed it had found 3,000,000 such cases (Zinn, 1980, p. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_in_the_United_States
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| | The Peoples' Republic of China was actually established from a 'Peoples Democratic Dictatorship' led by the working class and its party in alliance with the peasantry as a step toward socialism in the manner of the great October revolution. | | | Whereas, in the other case, if we may cite Russia for example, faced with a national-democratic revolution from c1905; by taking the lead in the bourgeois democratic revolutionary situation, the proletariat held a commanding position upon the successful overthrow of the feudal state. | | | Another popular proposition being sustained is, that it is ideas of a class of people, and a decadent one at that (modern revisionists) and generated under the dictatorship of the proletariat, who are responsible for this change backwards in the forces and mode of production from socialism to capitalism. |
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http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dove/two.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Socialism |
| | These are the tenets of the Socialist party of the U.S., the Labour party of Britain, and labor or social democratic parties of various other countries. | | | Socialism, economic and social doctrine, political movement inspired by this doctrine, and system or order established when this doctrine is organized in a society. | | | In Scandinavia, candidates of the Social Democratic parties of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden were elected to high positions early in the 1920s; these parties subsequently became dominant in Scandinavia. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577990/Socialism.html
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| | Readings on Fascism and National Socialism |
| | Fascism replaces therefore the old atomistic and mechanical state theory which was at the basis of the liberal and democratic doctrines with an organic and historic concept. | | | Socialism committed an irreparable error when it made of private property a matter of justice while in truth it is a problem of social utility. | | | Socialism in its turn generates the still more extreme doctrine of Bolshevism which demands the violent suppression of the holders of capital, the dictatorship of the proletariat, as means for a fairer economic organization of society and for the rescue of the laboring classes from capitalistic exploitation. |
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http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books170c/rfas.htm
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| | Socialism in the United States |
| | The majority of the party, however, declared that they saw no evidence of a revolutionary crisis in the United States, and that the job of Socialists here, as in other democratic countries, was to use the ballot and other peaceful instruments of change to bring about a cooperative system of industrial society. | | | The United States is one of the few great industrial nations where the Socialist or Labor or Social Democratic Party has not attained political stature. | | | When the United States entered the war, and the Socialist Party passed the St. Louis anti-war resolution, this group—including many of the writers of the movement—left the party either temporarily or permanently. |
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http://www.nathanielturner.com/socialismintheunitedstates.htm
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| | Communism - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | This ideology became known as democratic socialism (not to be confused with social democracy) and began to spread through existing socialist and/or "labourist" parties, such as the British Labour Party. | | | They wish to implement their libertarian system without going through a period of "state socialism" where the state acts as an "instrument" of the working class. | | | Stalin argued for the consolidation of socialism in one country (even one as underdeveloped as Soviet Union was at that time) and claimed that, due to the aggravation of class struggle along with the development of socialism, it was necessary to enforce strict Party discipline. |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/communism.htm
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| | The Russian Question And American Socialism |
| | It is an intellectual and political offense to use the good or bad fortunes of the American Stalinist party as the measure of the success or failure of American socialism. | | | Thus socialism as the ideology of a (non-existent) Proletariat and the entire socialist project that directs its main fire at a (non-existent) Bourgeoisie is wholly irrelevant to the exceptional American experience. | | | The notion that socialism "by its very statement of goal" and "rejection of the capitalist order" is "living in but not of this world" is a more notorious example of a would-be pithy phrase that combines all three vices: banality, historical inaccuracy and incoherence. |
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http://www.wpunj.edu/~newpol/issue23/jjacob23.htm
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| | Was Chairman Mao a Marxist-Leninist? |
| | Our party accepted the idea often stated in the Chinese texts that Stalin, as opposed to Mao did not understand that class struggle continued under socialism | | | The ECCI made clear that the working class had a choice: Either attempt to maintain the alliance with the national bourgeoisie, who were on the point of desertion of the national democratic revolution; Or; cement an alliance with the peasantry through the agrarian revolution. | | | Let us compare the view of the STATE as seen by Lenin and that seen by Mao in his theory of the New Democratic State. |
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/122.html
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| | Modern History Sourcebook: Mussolini: What is Fascism, 1932 |
| | After Socialism, Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. | | | No permission is granted for commercial use of the Sourcebook. | | | Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived of in their relation to the State. |
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http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html
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| | Communism, Socialism, Fascism, Communitarianism |
| | They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about...In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing. | | | Socialism promised freedom, prosperity, and community but delivered totalitarianism, poverty, and atomism. | | | For Socialism to maintain its hold against those who still aspire to liberty every guaranty of freedom - free speech, free press, assembly or a free legislative body, a free judiciary - ultimately must be suppressed. |
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http://www.languageofliberty.com/q_government_forms_communism.htm
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| | Socialism Today - Lula election victory |
| | The PT congress in 1991 marked the beginning of a new stage for the party, with the majority leadership moving toward a social democratic stance. | | | The influence of those events led the PT to adopt a critical attitude to the traditional social democratic parties and to the Stalinist regimes, at the same time as expressing solidarity with revolutionary struggles in Latin America. | | | This may have some impact, but they are palliative measures of limited reach. |
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http://www.socialismtoday.org/71/lula.html
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| | Eugene V. Debs: Outlook for Socialism in the U.S. |
| | The difference between the Republican and Democratic parties involve no issue, no principle in which the working class have any interest, and whether the spoils be distributed by Hanna and Platt, or by Croker and Tammany Hall is all the same to them. | | | Promising, indeed, is the outlook for Socialism in the United States. | | | Socialism was cunningly associated with “anarchy and bloodshed’ and denounced as a “foul foreign importation’ to pollute the fair, free soil of America, and every outrage to which the early agitators were subjected won the plaudits of the people. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/debs/works/1900/outlook.htm
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| | Why Socialism failed in the United states |
| | Indeed, the book concludes with the authors’ suggestion that part of the legacy of the failure of socialism in America is the near absence of a Green Party, which has taken root in the wealthier European nations as the Social Democratic parties have embraced programmes of the liberalization. | | | Socialism lies in those various political, associational and contractual relationship that mediate, restrain and redirect the rights of property and the cash nexus. | | | Capitalism and socialism co-evolved and co-developed in the United States after the turn of the twentieth century, Sklar argues, and did so in both complementary and competing roles. |
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http://frontierindia.scriptmania.com/FNV13PAGE4.htm
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| | TURN OUT THE LIGHTS, THE PARTY'S OVER: Why Socialism Didn't Happen in the United States |
| | That the Europeans may have a better shot at sustaining the kind of flexibility that's necessary, this market flexibility that's necessary to have high growth because they have in place those social democratic and socialists concepts of welfare. | | | The united states; here in the united states, in the late 19th and early 20th century, workers were indeed joining unions and striking for higher wages and better working conditions, what they were not doing, by and large, is joining the socialist party. | | | That the United States is an anti-stateist country. |
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| | socialism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Because of the collective nature of socialism, it is to be contrasted to the doctrine of the sanctity of private property that characterizes capitalism. | | | In a broader sense, the term socialism is often used loosely to describe economic theories ranging from those that hold that only certain public utilities and natural resources should be owned by the state to those holding that the state should assume responsibility for all economic planning and direction. | | | Other varieties of socialism continued to exist alongside Marxism, such as Christian socialism, led in England by Frederick Denison Maurice and Charles Kingsley; they advocated the establishment of cooperative workshops based on Christian principles. |
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| | Socialism |
| | This is the offer of Socialism: the righting of the centuries of wrong the producers have suffered, the dawn of a genuine democracy, peace instead of war, sufficiency instead of suffering, life raised above the level of appetite, a chance at last for the good in people to attain their normal development. | | | While this spirit of socialism has caused apprehension in some quarters, it has been joyfully received by a certain class of people who do not desire to acquire competence in the ordinary and honest manner and gladly seize any excuse for agitating the public mind on the chance of putting money in their own pockets. | | | socialism alone represents the material heaven of plenty for those who toil and the Socialist Party alone offers the political means for attaining that heaven of economic plenty which the toil of the workers of the world provides in unceasing and measureless flow. |
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| | Worcester |
| | Britain was negotiating a middle path between capitalism and socialism, one that would harness market forces to the dictates of a redistributive social democratic egalitarianism. | | | Such authors as E.F.M. Durbin, Douglas Jay, and Hugh Dalton (not to mention Henri deMan and Eduard Bernstein) had already delved into the politics and political philosophy of welfare-minded democratic socialism. | | | After Crosland, the Labour Party was no longer a reformist party with socialist aspirations, but a social democratic party with radical aspirations. |
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| | African Politics and Government on the Internet |
| | Site for civil society organizations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. | | | Recognizing contributions from diverse tendencies within Black Radicalism--including socialism, revolutionary nationalism and feminism--we are united in opposition to all forms of oppression, including class exploitation, racism, patriarchy, homophobia, anti-immigration prejudice and imperialism." Has statements on the Congo and on the death of Kwame Ture. | | | Fomunyoh is the National Democratic Institute's Senior Associate for Africa. |
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| | Which one of the following politico-economic systems employs a democratic form of government? | | | A. the ability to pay principle B. the benefit principle 6. | | | Any good not adequately provided by a free market is a/an: A. free good B. scarce good C. economic good D. social good 7. |
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| | East German Civics Textbook |
| | Under the guidance of the Marxist-Leninist parties, its function is to eliminate the capitalist social order and, in alliance with other classes and walks of life, establish its own power while building up socialism and communism. | | | Under today's conditions, it is vitally necessary to implement the policies socialism has long maintained, since peaceful coexistence is the only alternative to nuclear war; it is a basic requirement for human survival. | | | Without a doubt, a decisive factor for socialism's strength and invincibility is the socialist and communist morale of the soldiers in the Soviet army and in the other armed forces of the Warsaw Pact, as well as the high degree of cooperation within the socialist military coalition. |
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| | Myth: Hitler was a leftist |
| | The subject was the common fight against liberalism, Socialism and Bolshevism, discussed in the friendliest terms. | | | In variants of socialism that call for a central government, that government is always a strong or even direct democracy… never a dictatorship. | | | It doesn't matter if the dictator claims to be carrying out the will of the people, or calls himself a "socialist" or a "democrat." If the people themselves are not in control, then the system is, by definition, non-democratic and non-socialist. |
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| | Communism - Wikipedia |
| | The exception was the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. | | | Despite the actvity of the Comintern, the Soviet Communist Party adopted the Stalinist theory of "socialism in one country" and claimed that, due to the "aggravation of class struggle under socialism," it was possible, even necessary, to build socialism in one country alone. | | | Henceforth, the term "Communism" was applied to the ideology of the parties founded under the umbrella of the Comintern. |
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| | Britain (from socialism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Socialism was the dominant new economic and political doctrine of the 19th century. | | | A form of market socialism was adopted in Yugoslavia in the 1960s in distinction to the centrally planned socialism of the Soviet Union. | | | This form of socialism made its greatest headway in England during the 19th century. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-66987
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| | Socialism and German Rearmament |
| | The responsibility for the victory of Hitler and all its tragic consequences for the workers of Germany and the world, was directly that of the leadership of the trade unions and Social Democratic Party, and of the so-called Communist Party in Germany. | | | In fact if it is not possible to do so even in the case of countries with the same social system under capitalism, even more so is this the case where there is a class difference. | | | From the viewpoint of capitalism as a whole, a united continental Europe would be as powerful a force, economically as well as militarily, as the United States of America. |
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| | Fascism definition, origins, characteristics, fascist state, corporative state |
| | While socialism (particularly Marxism) came into existence as a clearly formulated theory or program based on a specific interpretation of history, fascism introduced no systematic exposition of its ideology or purpose other than a negative reaction against socialist and democratic egalitarianism. | | | In postwar West Germany, neofascism appeared in the form of the temporary growth of the nationalistic National Democratic party in the mid-1960s. | | | The growth of democratic ideology and popular participation in politics in the 19th cent. |
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