Link to an excerpt from the book It’s Not Over: Learning From the Socialist Experiment (2016) by Pete Dolack:
Links
Vicenç Navarro – What is Meant by “Single-Payer” in the Current Discussion of Health Care Reforms
Sam Gindin – Chasing Utopia
Link to an article by Sam Gindin:
Dan Glazebrook – Who Are the Real Culprits Behind UK’s Collapsing Public Services?
Brendan McQuade – “Artists are Part of the Working Class”: An Interview with Sole
Link to an interview with Sole by Brendan McQuade:
“‘Artists are Part of the Working Class’: An Interview with Sole”
Bonus link: Solecast 21
Russell Mokhiber – Whistleblower Lawyers Counterattack Against DC Disciplinary Counsel
Link to an article by Russell Mokhiber:
“Whistleblower Lawyers Counterattack Against DC Disciplinary Counsel”
Wolfgang Streeck – Social Democracy’s Last Rounds
Link to an interview with Wolfgang Streeck conducted by Jonah Birch and George Souvlis:
“Social Democracy’s Last Rounds”
Streeck’s comments about inflation might be questionable.
Peter Van Buren – Nickel and Dimed in 2016
Link to an article by Peter Van Buren:
Tamara Pearson – Clickbait v Political Impact
Lenin – An Appraisal of Tolstoy
Link to an article by V.I. Lenin:
It seems like one thing Lenin fails to mention about Leo Tolstoy is his remarkable ability to craft psychologically consistent characters. There are few writers capable of such deeply realistic characters as Tolstoy. And yet, Lenin’s point is essentially that the steadfast commitment to realism is what dooms Tolstoy in a political sense, in that his failure to step outside descriptive portrayals through realism means that he never really explores potentialities and never really challenges the status quo.
But in another article Lenin made his most basic criticism of Tolstoy, which seems apt:
“Tolstoy reflected the pent-up hatred, the ripened striving for a better lot, the desire to get rid of the past—and also the immature dreaming, the political inexperience, the revolutionary flabbiness. Historical and economic conditions explain both the inevitable beginning of the revolutionary struggle of the masses and their unpreparedness for the struggle, their Tolstoyan non-resistance to evil, which was a most serious cause of the defeat of the first revolutionary campaign.”