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 18, 2023
Neither Washington Nor Beijing: International Solidarity Against Inter-Imperial Rivalry
Zhang Mazi, Bonnie Jin, Dennis Kosuth, and Kang Yang speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by
The rivalry between the US and China lies at the heart of world imperialism. The US is determined to maintain its dominance, while China aims to claim its status a great power. This panel will argue that the international left must build international solidarity among workers and oppressed peoples against both powers and their intensifying conflict.
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Dec 19, 2023
The Longer Road To A New Green Deal
Elizabeth Oh, Johanna Bozuwa, Matt Haugen, and Grayson Flood speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by DSA.
https://www.dsausa.org
The climate crisis intensifies, but the prospects for transformative national legislation are grim. How do we reclaim public ownership and win clean public power at the state and city levels? The Build Public Renewables Act in New York outlines a possible pathway to win and sets the stage for public power, with coordination between socialist electeds and a mobilized base.
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Dec 19, 2023
Building City-Wide Tenants Unions: Strategies from the Autonomous Tenants Union Network
Esteban Girón, Michael Hollingsworth, Rose Lenehan, Hayden Harwood, and Joshua Taylor speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Autonomous Tenants Union Network.
https://atun-rsia.org
Tenant organizers from several different autonomous (member-funded and member-run) tenants unions across the country will discuss how they started their organizations and the strategies they have used to move from small-scale campaigns in individual buildings towards militant and enduring regional tenant organizations.
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Dec 19, 2023
The Abolitionist International
brian bean speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine.
https://rampantmag.com
Today’s global capitalism is underpinned by the competition of many states, each of which deploys expanding carceral violence through prisons, borders, and policing. Consequently, the abolitionist project for liberation has been and must be an international one. This session will highlight revolutionary movements to abolish the police and capitalist states spanning four continents, from Egypt to Ireland to Mexico to Russia and beyond, pointing toward the glimmers of an Abolitionist International.
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Dec 20, 2023
Divesting From Despair: Building a Liberatory Movement Media Ecosystem
Daniel Kisslinger, Damon WIlliams, Bill Ayers, and Eva Nagao speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Respair Media.
https://www.respairmedia.com
The session will feature clips from a variety of media projects that exemplify this humanizing radical movement media approach, and connect each project to the larger framework of media as a source of activating people to participate in hands-on social movement work.
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Dec 20, 2023
How Capitalism Kills: Social Murder and Covid-19
Nate Holdren, Artie Vierkant, and Abby Cartus speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. This session was sponsored by Death Panel.
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Capitalism exploits not just the surplus labor of the working class; it also exploits our health. This panel will discuss Friedrich Engels’ concept of “social murder,” the structural forces within capitalism that abandon populations to injury, debility, and premature death. Marxist historian Nate Holdren is joined by co-hosts of the Death Panel podcast Artie Vierkant and Abby Cartus to discuss how “social murder” can be used to understand the politics inherent to things like workplace injuries and the capitalist normalization of covid-19, and how under capitalism, “social murder” is a feature, not a bug. Nate Holdren will participate in this session remotely.
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