Socialism
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Karl Marx on 3rd parties
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19813426
> >Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed. > > Karl Marx Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League > London, March 1850 > >
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Socialist Countries are Outpacing the US in GDP and IQ
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BreadTube - A community to share and discuss left videos.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/853128
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic - Plan and build your own glorious communist state.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/638597
> This is an unofficial community for the 3DIVISION game, Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic. Share builds, screenshots, and guides, ask questions related to the game, and build a glorious community with comrades. > > From the WIki: > Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is the ultimate real-time Soviet-themed city builder tycoon game. Developed by 3Divison it is available on Steam in Early-Access since 15th March 2019. Construct your own republic with a centrally planned economy and transform a poor country into a rich industrial superpower! > > Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic > > https://lemmy.world/c/workersandresources > > [email protected] >
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My take on indicators of socialism
Basically, the assumption is that PPP-adjusted GDP per capita (B) is a reliable measure of the economic activity in a country, while its ability to satisfy the needs of its population is better quantified by the PPP-adjusted median wealth per adult (D).
Wikipedia provides B, as well as unadjusted GDP per capita (A) and unadjusted median wealth per adult ( C), so it's a reasonable assumption that D = BC/A. Since B represents production, C/A is a coefficient indicating how well this production translates to better quality of life.
So, my question is, for an arbitrary D, how much do each of both factors contribute to it? We need to find x so (Bx)(Cx/A) = BCx²/A = 1, so, since 1 = D/D = BC/AD, we find that x = 1/sqrt(D).
Then the normalized production factor is Bx = B/sqrt(D) = B/sqrt(BC/A) = sqrt(AB/C). Since this factor follows a logarithmic distribution, is only makes sense to take the logarithm, for p = log10(sqrt(AB/C)) = 2log10(AB/C). I just omitted the constant factor for simplicity.
It's far from perfect, as it tends to put together countries with lower GDP per capita and countries with fairer distribution, since both rely less on a high production.
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The Nicaraguan president who can’t resist defying the US is at it again
www.rt.com The president who can’t resist defying the US is at it againI’ve just attended the latest inauguration of Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega as Nicaraguan president and found him in a bullish mood, relishing his country’s improved ties with China and critical of American hypocrisy.
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Defend Kshama Sawant | All Eyes on Seattle: Kshama Sawant Faces Off Against Right-Wing Recall Election
internationalsocialist.net Defend Kshama Sawant || All Eyes on Seattle: Kshama Sawant Faces Off Against Right-Wing Recall Election02 November 2021 | This winter, Seattle will hold its first-ever December election in recorded history. The ballot question will be on the recall of Seattle’s only socialist councilmember, Kshama Sawant, as the culmination of a year-long effort by big business and the right wing to unseat her.
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How to: mutual aid for the "underdog"
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Read the text here: https://write.as/peace-labor-may/a7hthyixn9f9xumr
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Propaganda and the Media: Fact-Checking
thesaker.is Propaganda and the Media: Fact-Checking – Part 7 – The Vineyard of the SakerA bird's eye view of the vineyard
The author makes some very good arguments regarding fact checking websites and media in general (even if his views on vaccinations may be questionable). He also clearly doesnt know Marxism, but if you replace the "International Cabal of Gangsters" with the bourgeoisie, it is surprisingly accurate.
- www.sltrib.com Utah wants your help in preserving the historical records around the 1915 execution of labor icon Joe Hill
The Utah Division of Archives is hoping to shed more light on the 1915 execution of labor icon Joe Hill and is asking for the public’s help in transcribing and indexing thousands of documents.
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France detains 10-year-old children for over 11 hours
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Video explaining the Philadelphia Housing Action's agreement with the City to pass vacant houses into a community land trust to move homeless families into
www.instagram.com Philly Housing Now on Instagram: "We’ve been receiving a influx of messages and questions regarding the city’s recent proposal to transfer 50 properties into a community land trust for the residents at JTD and Camp Teddy, so we sat down and made this video to discuss and clarify the details further."1,554 likes, 46 comments - Philly Housing Now (@campjtd) on Instagram: "We’ve been receiving a influx of messages and questions regarding the city’s recent proposal ..."
Here's their press release a couple days ago announcing that success.
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Basis: A translator from capitalism to socialism
basisproject.net Basis: An economic protocol for scalable, ecological productionDocumentation and information about the Basis project
Just sharing for discussion purposes. Some lefty programmers are creating a buzzword laden system for distributed socialist economic planning.
There's a lot about the exact approach they take that strikes me as reformist and non revolutionary, but at the same time, I think there needs to be a greater emphasis on leveraging cybernetics to advance socialist planning.
Like the forms of planning developed in the USSR and PRC were developed before computers even existed and at least in the USSR they never really updated it. From what I've read the lack of computational power in the planning apparatus wound up being something of a bottleneck for the economy, not to say a fatal one, but you know, something future socialist projects would want to figure out how to address. I'm not too familiar with how economic planning in China works these days so no comment there.
Anyways, just thought it was interesting even if the ideological framework of the Basis Project is a bit odd. But I do wonder what modern computer science might enable in the way of economic planning.
- mkorostoff.github.io Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.