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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.
A critique of the ideological justifications given by extremely rich people today to justify their obscene wealth.
For those of trying to understand economics and what capitalism is all about, here is an excellent introduction.
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ. U.S. capitalism too has reached and passed its peak.
Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. Unequal economic distributions finance unequal political, social, cultural and “natural” outcomes.
Biden gives every sign of repeating Trump’s policies that worsened income and wealth inequalities. In so doing, he prepares the way for the next Trump. Can the progressives inside and outside the Democratic Party reconstruct US politics as a class politics once again?
No matter who “won” the U.S. election, what will not change is the capitalist organization of the country’s economy.
While China’s economic system differs sharply from a Western capitalist system, it is definitely not socialist in the sense of having overcome the employer/employee structure.
In U.S. capitalism, most of the money and power are concentrated in a small minority – and their interests prevail in government policies.
रिचर्ड डी. वोल्फ अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति ने हाल ही में एक आदेश जारी करते हुए मांसाहार के व्यापार में जुड़े हुए तमाम लोगों को काम पर लौटने के लिए कहा है लेकिन वहीँ दूसरी तरफ उन्होंने बूचड़खानों के मालिकों को कोरोना से बचाव के बारे में कोई सुझाव नहीं दिया है, ना ही उन्हें ये बताया…
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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