What is Socialism?- Page 2

By Eddie McCabe James Connolly once wrote that “successful revolutions are not the product of our brains but of ripe material conditions.” What he meant was that socialists can’t just make a revolution because they want to. No matter how many socialists

By Eddie McCabe You don’t have to be a revolutionary to know there’s something profoundly wrong with the world we live in, and to want to try to change it. Every day millions of people around the world engage in protests, campaigns

By Eddie McCabe A common question asked by those learning about socialism is whether there are any actual examples of socialism in practice, either somewhere in the world today, or in history. Clearly, it would make it easier to argue for socialism

By Eddie McCabe We all know of dictatorial regimes in certain parts of the world, or in history, which rule primarily through repression – the combination of violence and the ever-present threat of violence. This is the most brutal, but most basic

By Eddie McCabe The worldview of every mainstream economist and right-wing politician is predicated on the belief that people are motivated primarily by money, and therefore to them an economy that’s not based on profit-making is inconceivable. Of course, in a capitalist

By Manus Lenihan Democracy means everyone having a say in how their society is run. Supposedly we live in a democracy. In Ireland we have, on paper, the right to speak and write freely, the right to assemble and the right to