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Socialism 101: Don’t we need capitalist entrepreneurs to create wealth and jobs?

By Eddie McCabe A system as obscenely unequal as capitalism has to create and constantly promote certain myths. To morally justify a world where 12 individuals have more wealth than the poorest 4 billion people combined, it’s necessary to make people believe

Feb 10, 2026

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Why do socialists see the working class as the force for change?

By Harper Cleves “Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism” – Fredric Jameson This quote rings true because capitalism today feels almost omnipotent – it dominates the globe

Apr 25, 2022

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Expropriating the expropriators: Why we call for nationalisation & democratic public ownership

A socialist economic alternative includes many essential features such as wage rises and reduced hours for workers, taxes on wealth and profits, expanded and free public services etc. But a core demand is for the nationalisation of economic and natural resources and

Apr 11, 2022

Anti-war·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Is war inherent to capitalism?

By Kevin McLoughlin Virtually everyone supports the idea of ‘world peace’, yet today in 2022 there are nearly 40 different wars or conflicts ongoing. And with the Russian invasion of Ukraine the threat of nuclear war, and the annihilation of us all,

Mar 7, 2022

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism 101: Doesn’t human nature mean that socialism can’t work?

By Eddie McCabe In this capitalist society the notion of “human nature” is used to explain away all kinds of evils – violence, racism, inequality. Socialism – a society based on cooperation, real participatory democracy and the common ownership (and planned use)

Feb 3, 2022

Featured Articles·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

5 reasons why capitalism can’t be patched up, and has to go

By Eddie McCabe If the world today seems chaotic and the future looks bleak, try to remember one thing: it’s not you, it’s capitalism. The accelerating decay of this system is increasing the rate of all kinds of disasters, as well as

Jul 10, 2021

Featured Articles·Theory & History·What is Socialism?

James Connolly’s revolutionary socialism

The relevance of Workshop Talks today By Kevin Henry and Eddie McCabe We live in turbulent times; just seven months into a new decade and it has been totally dominated by crises, especially in the form of the pandemic and the economic

Aug 8, 2020

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Socialism: How would a planned economy work?

By Peter Delsing, (ISA in Belgium) This article is based on an introductory speech given to a commission on ‘Marxist economics — How would a planned economy work?’ at ISA’s Virtual Marxist University in July 2020. The discussion about how a planned economy would

Aug 7, 2020

Covid-19 Pandemic·Featured Articles·What is Socialism?

Covid-19, Disaster Capitalism & the Urgent Case for Socialism

By Eddie McCabe & Keishia Taylor, from the Summer 2020 edition of Socialist Alternative, the political journal of the Socialist Party. Capitalism must go. Virtually everything about the world today screams this. Take for example that in the midst of a global

May 18, 2020

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

Economic crash shows who the real wealth creators are

By Mike Murphy Plans by governments and central banks to deal with the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic feature in the news virtually every day. While the initial news focus was very strongly on the healthcare system response to the crisis,

Apr 22, 2020

Theory & History·What is Socialism?

“Finland Station” and the struggle for socialism today

At the end of June, in the midst of a growing discussion about socialism in the United States, Bhaskar Sunkara ,editor of the US socialist magazine Jacobin, published an important op-ed in the New York Times entitled “Socialism’s Future May Be Its

Aug 3, 2017

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