Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Carlos Perez, and Donald Parkinson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Cosmonaut Magazine.
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A major goal of socialists is to win the fight for democracy by extending democracy to the economy. Capitalism is a contradictory couple of the “free market” and the dictatorship of the workplace. The “free market” implies anarchy of production and production for profit but not human-welfare. The dictatorship of the workplace means the rigorous planning of the labor process and intense exploitation of labor. For Marxists, economic democracy means planning , the planning of the economy in a way to assure the welfare of human-beings and the health of the planet. So what is planning? How is it distinguished from market mechanisms of distribution? Can there be a “free market” in socialism? How does planning contribute to the goal of democracy? What will allow for planning i.e. the social and material conditions necessary to make planning feasible? This talk hosted by three members of Cosmonaut Magazine will hope to address these questions and more. The talk is divided into three parts: 1) Basics on Planning: Definition and Values 2)Market and Capitalism, Planning and Socialism 3) Social and Material Conditions on Planning: Technology and Social Organization
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Dec 1, 2023
Abolishing the War on Terror and Building Communities of Care
Darakshan Raja speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Muslims for Just Futures and Muslim Abolitionist Futures.
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Muslims for Just Futures will host a workshop session on ways abolition can be used as a framework and an organizing intervention to tackle structural Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror. The session will include an introduction to the Muslim Abolitionist Futures agenda, tools, and frameworks that can be used as a tool of movement-building to link demands for abolition of policing, militarism, and surveillance expansion to the Global War on Terror.
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Dec 1, 2023
Homosexuality and the Left in American History
Aaron Lecklider speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
This session discusses the relationship between homosexuality and the Left in US history, particularly emphasizing the ways radical activists, artists, and writers incorporated sexual politics into their critiques of capitalism, racism, and fascism in the decades before Stonewall.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fascism: Past, Present, or Future
Alberto Toscano and Ilya Budraitskis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Verso.
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How can we best understand the right in the US and internationally? The history of ‘fascism’ as a concept has gone through many iterations. This session will explore the meaning and relevance of the term, but also look at contemporary manifestations of fascist politics and how to confront them.
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Dec 2, 2023
Fighting For Sanctuary: Migrant Justice Organizing in Chicago
Vicko Alvarez and Graciela Guzmán speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by
After Texas Governor Greg Abbott bussed thousands of refugees to sanctuary cities such as Chicago as a political ploy, countless migrants have faced untenable conditions including being forced to sleep in police stations. This talk will look at the roots of this current crisis, and will also cover the local organizing efforts to provide aid and care for newly arrived migrants.
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Dec 4, 2023
Family Abolition Today: Care Beyond Capitalism
M. E. O'Brien, Eman Abdelhadi, and Sophie Lewis speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Pinko.
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Join M. E. O’Brien, Sophie Lewis and Eman Abdelhadi for a panel conversation on family abolition, care, and the family in racial capitalism. Occasioned by the publication of M. E. O’Brien’s Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care, this panel brings together three leading family abolitionist scholars and activists.
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Dec 4, 2023
The Fight For Municipal Socialism: Recovering a Usable Past
Shelton Stromquist speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.
For more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers around the world. But, at every turn, propertied elites challenged their right to govern. Faced with urban/industrial crises of capitalism, workers invented a new local politics that promised to democratize cities and reclaim the wealth they created. That legacy continues to inspire activists today in their fight for the right of cities to govern themselves.
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