Questions related to the political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
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Are there good examples of countries "incorrectly" self-identifying as "socialist"?
Let's make the following definition:
"Private ownership" of means of production means 3 things:
The profit from selling things produced go to someone dubbed an "owner", who is one or more private person (e.g. NOT government/state)
The "owner" is…
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What are some programmatic differences between Podemos and Izquierda Unida?
In the European Parliament elections, 2014, in Spain, two parties joined the EUL/NGL group: Izquierda Unida and Podemos. In recent polls for the Spanish general election, 2015, Podemos has risen sharply in the polls, perhaps stimulated by the…
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Is worker ownership considered one of the "schools" of socialist economic thought?
Most debate over socialism nowadays, revolves around traditional "state socialism" vs. social democracy. In the former system, the government owns and operates productive business enterprises, while in the latter, government regulates and taxes…
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Has Charles Fourier's utopian socialism any relation with 19th century romanticism literary movement?
Has Charles Fourier's utopian socialism (and its 20th century heirs, if any) a relation with 19th century romanticism literary movement?
His ideas recall me a lot of the writings of the transcendatalist Thoreau, or the romanticist Rousseau.
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