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What is Socialism?
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Socialism 101: Is capitalism destroying the planet?
By Eddie McCabe In the midst of the carnage of the First World War, Rosa Luxemburg wrote of…
Socialism 101: Wouldn’t socialism stifle innovation?
By James McCabe Capitalism constantly bombards us with its self-serving ideology, including the idea that the system relies…
Socialism 101: How do Marxists view religion?
By Conor Payne As Karl Marx wrote: “Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression…
Socialism 101: What kind of organisation do we need? (part 2)
By Eddie McCabe In part 1 of this article we explained how the working class, in its resistance…
Socialism 101: What kind of organisation do we need? (part 1)
By Eddie McCabe James Connolly once wrote that “successful revolutions are not the product of our brains but…
Socialism 101: Why can’t we just reform capitalism?
By Eddie McCabe You don’t have to be a revolutionary to know there’s something profoundly wrong with the…
Socialism 101: Are there any socialist countries? Have there ever been?
By Eddie McCabe A common question asked by those learning about socialism is whether there are any actual…
Socialism 101: Aren’t the state, the courts and the police politically neutral?
By Eddie McCabe We all know of dictatorial regimes in certain parts of the world, or in history,…
Socialism 101: Doesn’t capitalism incentivise hard work because people are motivated by money?
By Eddie McCabe The worldview of every mainstream economist and right-wing politician is predicated on the belief that…
Socialism 101: Are all workers exploited? Are there no good bosses?
By Harper Cleves In early November Elon Musk purchased Twitter. Within a week of his ascendancy, he had…
