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This useful and compelling essay raises more questions than it answers and it is difficult to navigate the choppy waters of definitional socialism. We should note the term arises before the work of… Source: what is ‘democratic market neo-communism’…?//What is Socialism? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

https://redfortyeight.com/?s=democratic+market+neo-communism The legacy of ‘communism’ seems like a lost cause and this blog has repeatedly stressed the need for a radical caesura with its past in order to recompute the whole subject, starting with semantics. This requires in addition an examination of marxism whose tenets have debatedly been the cause of the complete failure of … Continue reading  From lost cause to ‘neo-‘…as in ‘democratic market neo-communism’ →

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Source: what is ‘democratic market neo-communism’…?//What is Socialism? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

Source: what is ‘democratic market neo-communism’…?//What is Socialism? – 1848+: The End(s) of History

https://redfortyeight.com/?s=democratic+market+neo-communism We have tried (read the previous post) to warn that vague talk about socialism etc is not enough. We have from there tried to construct one version of something that might work. It tries to get specific. That is the combination of four issues in one (there are still more out there): This tries … Continue reading Democratic market neo-communism and the issue of specific post-capitalist systems… →

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Our DMNC model shows in principle a way to bypass the sterile constructions of marxist-derived ‘socialism/communism’: the left needs to produce a robust economic outcome in the wake of social transformation. Its inability to do so has been a huge plus for capitalists. The legacy of marxism by refusing to even discuss the question has … Continue reading   Democratic market neo-communism…? socialist economies and their discontents… →