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Bernie Sanders — socialist or democratic socialist?
We wondered: Were we being inaccurate when we described him as a socialist? The short answer: It’s akin to calling a honeycrisp an apple — not the most specific description, but not inaccurate. And here’s the kicker: Despite what he calls himself, Sander isn’t exactly an apple, either.
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What If We Reported On Poverty The Way We Report On The Stock Market?
“The media is biased,” is a complaint that media organizations receive a lot, so they tend to be fairly wary of overtly partisan reporting. However, while media organizations are loath to seem partisan, they are often deeply unaware of other deep biases they hold.
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Republicans Against Retirement
Something strange is happening in the Republican primary — something strange, that is, besides the Trump phenomenon. For some reason, just about all the leading candidates other than The Donald have taken a deeply unpopular position, a known political loser, on a major domestic policy issue. And it’s interesting to ask why.
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Why Social Security Beats All Rivals -- And the Case for Expanding It
Social Security demonstrates that public systems are often better than their private counterparts. The problem is that government-managed systems are only as good as their stewards. The only cure is stronger democracy, so that citizens who value good programs vote to elect leaders pledged to defend them.
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Why Liberals Have to Be Radicals
The reforms needed to restore the country's shared prosperity are to the left of all the candidates, including Sanders.
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Communist Tendency of SYRIZA calls for mass resistance to the Troika, the oligarchy and the capitulating government
The most crucial issue at the moment is to build a massrevolutionary working class “NO” movement, in order to stop the adoption of the new memorandum by parliament and to overthrow the parliamentary junta of "national unity".
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SYRIZA - A Monumental Betrayal in Motion
Greece is to be placed under the direct control of EU officials. The function of Greece’s parliament will be to rubber-stamp the transfer of real authority to Brussels and Berlin. It has until Wednesday to pass a series of laws implementing the demands of German imperialism and the EU.
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Democracy is only for rich white guys: A definitive explanation for America’s most shocking inequalities
A wealth of research data now demonstrates what should be obvious: The law only advances certain people's interests
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Contemporary Imperialism - Samir Amin
Lenin and Bukharin considered imperialism to be a new stage (“the highest”) of capitalism associated with the development of monopolies. I question this thesis and contend that historical capitalism has always been imperialist, in the sense that it has led to a polarization between centers and peripheries since its origin (the sixteenth century), which has only increased over the course of its later globalized development.
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Why Communists Support LGBTQ Liberation and Trans People of Color
The oppression of women, as well as of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and intersex people is built in to the capitalist-imperialist system. It is due to that fact that these oppressive traditions are rooted in capitalism, that Marxist-Leninists have been among the fiercest fighters for LGBTQI liberation.
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Kodao Productions | They came down the mountains for their shining red star
“Father” was the legendary rebel who punished the Philippine Army with telling blows for the better part of four decades in Southern Mindanao. He led the formation of the New People’s Army’s first battalion-sized unit that captured an enemy general in 1999 and held him as prisoner of war for weeks. He was Leoncio ‘Commander Parago’ Pitao, “the shining red star of the revolution.”
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Can Bernie Sanders Redeem The Word 'Socialist'?
Two weeks ago Senator Claire McCaskill, a Hillary Clinton enemy-turned-supporter, told Morning Joe’s audience what they already knew, that Bernie Sanders is “frankly, a socialist.” Whereas Obama denied the socialist accusation, Sanders affirms it, and the “s” word has done little to stifle the senator’s popularity. A week after responding to McCaskill, Sanders held a 10,000-person rally in Wisconsin.
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Q&A with Bernie Sanders: What he means by socialism
The Des Moines Register interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Friday, the day he drew a crowd of 2,500 for a speech in Council Bluffs, the largest audience in Iowa this election cycle for a lone candidate's appearance.
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Greeks Reject Bailout Terms in Rebuff to European Leaders
"The no votes carried virtually every district in the country, handing a sweeping victory to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras..."
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An Introduction To Capitalism
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How did my Chinese generation forget to rebel?
My generation in China, once impassioned by the Western literature of rebellion, is now lulled by ‘Wealthy Socialism’
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The U.S. Military Is a Socialist Paradise
It may come as an unwelcome surprise to conservatives, but America’s military has one of the only working models of collective living and social welfare the country has ever known.
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Pope Francis lambasts the rich and reminds the world of what matters most
The applause of the pilgrims he can take for granted. But when Pope Francis receives veiled threats from the Calabrian Mafia and American billionaire investors such as Kenneth Langone, he can be pretty sure he is making an impact.
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