Wojciech Fangor, “Forging the Scythes” (1954). Image courtesy the Museum of Warsaw. The following essay by Marxist economist Michael A. Lebowitz was first published in the 2013 edition of Socialist Register. Lebowitz, who passed away on April 19, 2023 at the age of 85, was a giant of the socialist
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Canadian Dimension: Protagonism and Productivity
Photo by Henry Romero When I went to work in Venezuela in 2004, I discovered in the Bolivarian Constitution some elements that I consider to be central to the concept of socialism for the twenty-first century. For one, there was the emphasis upon human development—the goal of “ensuring overall human
Continue readingCanadian Dimension: The Tragedy of the Commons, the Pope, and the System
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There’s an old argument that common property inevitably leads to exhaustion of resources.
In the parable of “the tragedy of the commons,” the story is told that, given the absence o…
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