THEORY: Decolonization & Anarcho-Socialism

THEORY: Decolonization & Anarcho-Socialism

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TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity
TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity
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TIL that the Nuremberg Charter's definition of "crimes against humanity", which was used in the Nuremberg Trials, includes only acts committed during a war of aggression. This was partly because the US was concerned that Jim Crow segregation would otherwise be considered a crime against humanity
Capital’s structural rot
Capital’s structural rot
As stock markets reach new highs in a speculative orgy, perhaps the signs are that a massive crash, outdoing 1929, is already underway. The stats for the jobs market, private and government borrowing and housing certainly show that America, the world’s largest economy, is entering recessionary territory. World socialism becomes ever more necessary, writes Ted Reese
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Capital’s structural rot
Settler colonialism: What’s in a name? – Canadian Dimension
Settler colonialism: What’s in a name? – Canadian Dimension
Once a radical breakthrough, settler colonial theory now dominates Canadian scholarship. In his review of On Settler Colonialism in Canada, Bryan D. Palmer welcomes its moral clarity but warns that it risks eclipsing capitalism’s structural power, arguing that true decolonization demands confronting the economic engines driving dispossession.
·canadiandimension.com·
Settler colonialism: What’s in a name? – Canadian Dimension
SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK
SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK
Our aim is to build a movement working towards socialism, a democratic society based upon co-operation and production for use, a world community without national borders. An end to buying and selling and money, where goods will be voluntarily produced and services voluntarily supplied to meet people's needs. People will freely take the things they need. The Socialist Party of Great Britain is an organisation of equals with no leaders.
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SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK
‘A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’’ by Tony Smith reviewed by Stephen Darling
‘A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’’ by Tony Smith reviewed by Stephen Darling
In A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, Tony Smith argues for “a feasible and superior alternative” (120) to capitalism in the form of republican socialism. At its core, republicanism rests on two principles: self-governance and freedom from domination (4–8). For Smith, these principles express an explicitly anti-authoritarian stance, summed up in the formulation “self-governance without domination” (24). The result is a vision of socialism that is clearly anti-authoritarian—unlike the state-socialist models of the former USSR or present-day China. From the outset, Smith aims to develop a model that goes beyond historical instances of “really existing socialism.” Because those experiences shaped…
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‘A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’’ by Tony Smith reviewed by Stephen Darling