Tag Archives: Socialism

AlterNet: Sean McElwee: ‘The Case For Censoring Hate Speech’

“For the past few years speech has moved online, leading to fierce debates about its regulation. Most recently, feminists have led the charge to purge Facebook of misogyny that clearly violates its hate speech code. Facebook took a small step … Continue reading

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George Stroumboulopoulos: Bill Maher: ‘European Socialism Part of Their Wisdom and Savvy’

Source:The FreeState Bill Maher as usually get’s a few things right and a few things wrong in the same commentary. He’s correct when he says that Americans do not understand socialism, I would add for the most part. There are … Continue reading

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John Fugelsang: Barack Obama is a Bad Socialist

Source:FreeState MD I agree Barack Obama may be the worst Socialist ever for the simple reason he’s not a Socialist. And the same thing could be said about George W. Bush being the worst Conservative ever because he wasn’t very … Continue reading

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Longines Chronoscope: Dr. Norman Thomas From- Democratic Socialist Foreign Policy (1952)

Source:FreeState MD What I respect about Norman Thomas even though he was a Socialist and we probably agree on almost nothing as it relates to economic policy, is that he was a real Democrat. A real American Democrat, a real … Continue reading

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Brian Mageee Interviews Noam Chomsky

. Source:Free State MD I was in a debate about a year ago with someone who self-describes their politics as libertarian. And we were talking about Professor Noam Chomsky and this person was describing Noam Chomsky’s politics as socialist. And … Continue reading

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EFAN: Video: George McGovern’s 1972 Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech

EFAN: Video: George McGovern’s 1972 Democratic Convention Acceptance Speech Former U.S. Senator George McGovern, who served a total of twenty-two years in Congress. Served in the House of Representatives from 1957-61, before serving in the Kennedy Administration from 1961-63, then … Continue reading

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Russia Today: Anarchism, Socialism & Libertarianism Summit

Source:FreeState Now They are both very diverse political philosophies and take libertarianism to use as an example. Where the basic idea of libertarianism is that you combine personal with economic freedom as long as individuals aren’t hurting innocent people with … Continue reading

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The Daily Telegraph: The Making of Margaret

Source:The FreeState Margaret Thatcher, in some ways was very lucky because she arrived on the seen as first Leader of The Opposition in the United Kingdom in the mid 1970s. And then of course Prime Minister in 1979 at the … Continue reading

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The New Republic: Cass R. Sunstein: ‘Why Paternalism is Our Friend’

Source:The New Republic– New York City Nanny, I mean Mayor (call it a slip of the tongue) Michael Bloomberg. Source:FRS FreeState “The nanny state is in the news. A lot of people have been outraged by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort … Continue reading

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Union Solidarity: Video: Dr. Martin L. King on Labor, Wealth and Inequality

Union Solidarity: Video: Dr. Martin L. King on Labor, Wealth and Inequality Economic policy, is the part of Dr. Martin L. King’s message that I disagree with. And where he was lacking, because he sort of took this social democratic … Continue reading

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