Thoughts On Economics

People have been organized in diverse ways in many societies across time and space. A communist state existed for a century and a half in P...

Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy, north of Tuscany. I have written about its capital, Bologna, before. About a third of the gross dom...

1.0 Introduction You can tell a history of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics in which events are inconsistent with Marx's theor...

The largest producer of organic rice in Latin America, over the last decade, is the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), or...

I have just started David Schweickart's After Capitalism . I have yet to get to his exposition of how transition to economic democracy...

Socialists and communists have been elected in many places, for significant periods of time. Often they introduced policies that improved t...

Eurocommunism was a tendency in communist parties in Europe during the 1970s. The Soviet suppression of the Prague Spring cast communist p...

Socialists and communists have been elected in many places, for significant periods of time. And those places did not necessarily turn into...

Socialists are not waiting for the revolution. They have started building socialism here and now. Participatory budgeting is one process ...

This post briefly describes some advocates of some strange ideas near the start of the twentieth century. I am avoiding socialists and Marx...

1. Introduction Early socialists did not always agree. I provide an account of an idiosyncratic selection of a couple of Ricardian sociali...

I have been reading some secondary literature on John Stuart Mill. He was explicitly against meritocracy, although that term was not availa...

I think of Otto Neurath primarily as a member of the Vienna circle . Rudolf Carnap and Moritz Schlick were two ther prominent members. The...

The second international was the major organization for socialist parties around 1900. The first international had collapsed with struggles...

America's Socialist Experiment Socialists have been elected mayor, to city councils, and to county commissions in the USA. Emil Seide...

This post is another instance of me stumbling over anti-communist literature , in a sense. I read Howard Fast's novel, Citizen Tom P...

By socialism, I mean 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'. An emphasis on developing and liberating the forces of production is...

Marx, like Adam Smith and Walt Rostow, had a stages theory of history. Feudalism was succeeded by capitalism, and capitalism is to be succe...

Here is a list of books by Marxists that have stood the test of time. I am being impressionistic and probably idiosyncratic. I am more inte...

Michael Harrington was a great socialist in the United States. This is not to say that he did not make some political missteps, at least at...