Socialism Conference

Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023.

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Join Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, and Harsha Walia for a discussion about the political lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, mass protests, and mutual aid, and how we can reject cynicism and build power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.

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brian bean speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Rampant Magazine.

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Contemporary capitalism exploits and degrades human beings around the world, relying on the violent power of states to create profits, guarantee the functioning of markets, and cheapen labor through violence. There is no way to build a liberated future for all of us without overthrowing capitalism, and that will mean confronting and dismantling the capitalist state, its prisons, policing, borders, and military. It’s time we talk about smashing the state.

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Ronnie Almonte, Paul Kirk-Davidoff, and Elizabeth Lalasz speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by NYC for Abortion Rights: https://abortionrights.nyc.

Being a socialist at work means more than being the best builder of your union. Our horizon extends beyond the parameters of strengthening the union movement, our sights are on the full transformation of society, and based on a conviction that working class people have the capacity to win it all. How does this vision guide us as we face the daily grind of workplace organizing?

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Alejandro Bodart, Andreu Coll, and Natalia Tylim speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.

Socialists from three continents discuss the ongoing necessity to build revolutionary organizations. Efforts from the last decades have faced sometimes terminal challenges, while a growing opening exists for Marxist politics, based in part on the impasse of recent broad party and reformist projects. What lessons should be drawn given that the need for revolutionary change internationally is making itself clearer by the day?

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Gabriel Winant, Donna Murch, Mie Inouye, and Dan Denvir speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by n+1 Magazine.

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How do activists learn from struggles, and how do we put our analysis to work in our fights? This panel will feature an open-ended discussion of the relationship between intellectual work and organizing work, drawing on both historical examples and the experiences of participants.

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Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, Carlos Perez, and Donald Parkinson speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. This session was sponsored by Cosmonaut Magazine.

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A major goal of socialists is to win the fight for democracy by extending democracy to the economy. Capitalism is a contradictory couple of the “free market” and the dictatorship of the workplace. The “free market” implies anarchy of production and production for profit but not human-welfare. The dictatorship of the workplace means the rigorous planning of the labor process and intense exploitation of labor. For Marxists, economic democracy means planning , the planning of the economy in a way to assure the welfare of human-beings and the health of the planet. So what is planning? How is it distinguished from market mechanisms of distribution? Can there be a “free market” in socialism? How does planning contribute to the goal of democracy? What will allow for planning i.e. the social and material conditions necessary to make planning feasible? This talk hosted by three members of Cosmonaut Magazine will hope to address these questions and more. The talk is divided into three parts: 1) Basics on Planning: Definition and Values 2)Market and Capitalism, Planning and Socialism 3) Social and Material Conditions on Planning: Technology and Social Organization

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Yael Bridge, Daniel Denvir, and Jesse Sharkey speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022. Find out more about the "When We Fight" documentary here: https://www.whenwefightmovie.com.

Join Daniel Denvir, Yael Bridge, and Jesse Sharkey for a screening of When We Fight, a short documentary about the 2019 L.A. teachers' strike, and a conversation about the teachers' strike wave and its legacy as well as the state of teacher organizing today, as teachers, parents, and students experience the sharp edge of interlocking social crises.

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Oscar Sanchez and Carlos Enriquez speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.

Earlier this year community members is Chicago's Southeast Side successfully pressured the city of Chicago to deny the operating permit that would allow a dangerous metal shredder to relocate to their neighborhood. In this talk we will reflect on how that victory was made possible.

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Hadas Thier speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.

In our new reality of abortion bans in half of the country, what is the To dismantle the economy of the 1%, we have to understand it. Marxism offers a radical economic theory that explains both the basics of how capitalism works (and doesn't work), as well as current predicaments: from inflation, to the anarcho-capitalism of cryptocurrencies, to the coming recession.

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Danny Katch speaks in this session recorded at Socialism 2022.

Gun violence–from mass shootings to homicides to suicides–is on the rise, worsening an ongoing crisis and feuling a “law and order” backlash. This meeting will lay out how socialists can reject the failed “good guys vs bad guys” framework of both the NRA and police departments–and respond to the sometimes conflicting demands of public safety, decriminalization, non-violence, and self-defense.

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