We're looking for passionate individuals who want to take this project forward and make it their own. If you're interested in administrating this initiative to create positive change in Alberta, we'd love to hear from you.
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Email us at contact@freealberta.org to discuss taking over this project.
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Bounties are datasets that Free Alberta has identified however has not yet compiled. As we build out our repository, we hope to actively keep up and add new bounties.
We also hope to build out a process for (1) prioritizing data (2) valuing data.
"},{"location":"bounties/#claiming-bounties","title":"Claiming Bounties","text":"We need your help! Contributing datasets to Free Alberta gets your name on the Hall of Fame as contributor, inline acknowledgement of your contribution, and your dataset publicly archived.
"},{"location":"bounties/#sponsoring-datasets","title":"Sponsoring Datasets","text":"Would you or your organization also want this data? Consider sponsoring a bounty! Data sponsors are also inducted into the Hall of Fame, receive inline acknowledgment of their contribution, their logo or graphic on the page, and publicly archived datasets.
To claim a bounty, please email Free Alberta with your claim.
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"},{"location":"free-to-contact/#executive-leadership","title":"Executive Leadership","text":"Where the buck stops... or more accurately, where it gets passed around like a hot potato.
Danielle Smith Premier of Alberta President of Executive Council and Minister of Intergovernmental Relations \ud83d\udcde Give Them a Ring \u2709\ufe0f Send Digital Carrier Pigeon Mike Ellis Deputy Premier Public Safety and Emergency Services \ud83d\udcde Give Them a Ring \u2709\ufe0f Send Digital Carrier Pigeon"},{"location":"free-to-contact/#treasury-economy","title":"Treasury & Economy","text":"Where your tax dollars go to play hide and seek
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Shane Getson Chief Government Whip Parliamentary AffairsNote: Our ministers are available during standard bureaucratic hours, or whenever they're not at a photo op.
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The Hall of Fame is where we will be documenting all of our contributors, comrades, and sponsors.
Contributors are those who have contributed their thought, time, or resources to the project.
Comrades are people who are active administrators of the website and its content
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"},{"location":"hall-of-fame/#contributors","title":"Contributors","text":"Settler Acknowledgment
As the admin team behind Free Alberta, we acknowledge that we're settlers on Treaty 6, 7, and 8 territories. We're typing these very words while sitting on land that was never ceded by the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, Tsuu T'ina, and M\u00e9tis peoples. We're grateful for everything this land and Mother Earth have provided us, even though \"grateful\" feels a bit weak when you're benefiting from a centuries-long land heist. Please read our sarcasm & humor throughout this document as mockery of capitalism and in no way disrespect for indigenous peoples.
Send Email to Minister Responsible for Landback Call Rajan Sawhney, Minister of Indigenous Relations Email Minister of Indigenous Relations Call Todd Loewen, Minister of Forestry and Parks Email Minister of Forestry and Parks
"},{"location":"landback/#oh-you-think-youre-free-laughs-in-indigenous-sovereignty","title":"Oh, You Think You're Free? laughs in Indigenous sovereignty","text":"Let's have a real talk about freedom. We're all out here waving our \"FREEDOM\" flags while casually living on stolen land - stolen, in some cases, in this lifetime. How's that for cognitive dissonance?
There are still disproportionate amounts of indigenous folks killed by police, having parent-child separations, and occupying our prisons. Just because we never built big walls doesnt mean we don't operate in a colonial state. Settlers built literal forts out here dude; they invaded.
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Environmental Freedom
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While some folks are out there fighting for pipelines, we're here to pipe some truth: Real freedom means:
Think About It
If we're so obsessed with freedom from government overreach, maybe we should support the peoples who've been resisting it for centuries?
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Reality Check
\"But what about MY freedom?\"
\"Your freedom to swing your fist ends where Indigenous sovereignty begins.\"
Look, we get it. This might not be the \"freedom\" content you were expecting from a Free Alberta website. Maybe you came here looking for some spicy anti-government memes and instead got served a plate of uncomfortable truth with a side of settler guilt.
But here's the thing: We can't meme our way out of colonialism. Real freedom means confronting uncomfortable truths and working to dismantle systems of oppression - even (especially) when we benefit from them.
Remember: The most radical act of freedom is acknowledging our own role in oppression and working to dismantle it. Even if we have to use some spicy memes to get there. \ud83c\udf36\ufe0f
This page is maintained by settlers trying to do better, one uncomfortable conversation at a time.
"},{"location":"archive/","title":"The People's Archive of Freedom\u2122","text":"Comrade's Note
Welcome to our totally-not-communist information hub, where we've collected everything needed to make Alberta even more free than it already thinks it is!
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Did You Know?
Every time someone says \"free market,\" a public library gets its wings!
"},{"location":"archive/#why-an-archive","title":"Why An Archive?","text":"Because nothing says freedom quite like having all the receipts. We believe in:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Anarchy is a form of society without rulers. As a type of stateless society, it is commonly contrasted with states, which are centralized polities that claim a monopoly on violence over a permanent territory. Beyond a lack of government, it can more precisely refer to societies that lack any form of authority or hierarchy. While viewed positively by anarchists, the primary advocates of anarchy, it is viewed negatively by advocates of statism, who see it in terms of social disorder.
The word \"anarchy\" was first defined by Ancient Greek philosophy, which understood it to be a corrupted form of direct democracy, where a majority of people exclusively pursue their own interests. This use of the word made its way into Latin during the Middle Ages, before the concepts of anarchy and democracy were disconnected from each other in the wake of the Atlantic Revolutions. During the Age of Enlightenment, philosophers began to look at anarchy in terms of the \"state of nature\", a thought experiment used to justify various forms of hierarchical government. By the late 18th century, some philosophers began to speak in defence of anarchy, seeing it as a preferable alternative to existing forms of tyranny. This lay the foundations for the development of anarchism, which advocates for the creation of anarchy through decentralisation and federalism.
As a concept, anarchy is commonly defined by what it excludes.1 Etymologically, anarchy is derived from the Greek: \u03b1\u03bd\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1, romanized:\u00a0anarchia; where \"\u03b1\u03bd\" (\"an\") means \"without\" and \"\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03af\u03b1\" (\"archia\") means \"ruler\".[^footnotedupuis-d%c3%a9ri201013marshall20083-2] Therefore, anarchy is fundamentally defined by the absence of rulers.[^footnotechartiervan_schoelandt20201dupuis-d%c3%a9ri201013marshall200819%e2%80%9320mckay2018118%e2%80%93119-3]
While anarchy specifically represents a society without rulers, it can more generally refer to a stateless society,[^footnotechartiervan_schoelandt20201dupuis-d%c3%a9ri201014%e2%80%9315-4] or a society without government.2 Anarchy is thus defined in direct contrast to the State,[^footnoteamster201815bell2020310boettkecandela2020226morris202039%e2%80%9342sensen202099-6] an institution that claims a monopoly on violence over a given territory.[^footnotebell2020310boettkecandela2020226morris202043%e2%80%9345-7] Anarchists such as Errico Malatesta have also defined anarchy more precisely as a society without authority,3 or hierarchy.4
Anarchy is often defined synonymously as chaos or social disorder,5 reflecting the state of nature as depicted by Thomas Hobbes.[^footnoteboettkecandela2020226morris202039%e2%80%9340sensen202099-11] By this definition, anarchy represents not only an absence of government but also an absence of governance. This connection of anarchy with chaos usually assumes that, without government, no means of governance exist and thus that disorder is an unavoidable outcome of anarchy.6 Sociologist Francis Dupuis-D\u00e9ri has described chaos as a \"degenerate form of anarchy\", in which there is an absence, not just of rulers, but of any kind of political organization.[^footnotedupuis-d%c3%a9ri201016%e2%80%9317-13] He contrasts the \"rule of all\" under anarchy with the \"rule of none\" under chaos.[^footnotedupuis-d%c3%a9ri201017%e2%80%9318-14]
Since its conception, anarchy has been used in both a positive and negative sense, respectively describing a free society without coercion or a state of chaos.7
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"},{"location":"archive/anarchy-wiki/#post-classical-development","title":"Post-classical development","text":"During the Middle Ages, the word \"anarchia\" came into use in Latin, in order to describe the eternal existence of the Christian God. It later came to reconstitute its original political definition, describing a society without government.7
Christian theologists came to claim that all humans were inherently sinful and ought to submit to the omnipotence of higher power, with the French Protestant reformer John Calvin declaring that even the worst form of tyranny was preferable to anarchy.9 The Scottish Quaker Robert Barclay also denounced the \"anarchy\" of libertines such as the Ranters.[^footnotemarshall2008106%e2%80%93107-20] In contrast, radical Protestants such as the Diggers advocated for anarchist societies based on common ownership.[^footnotemarshall200898%e2%80%93100-21] Although following attempts to establish such a society, the Digger Gerard Winstanley came to advocate for an authoritarian form of communism.10
During the 16th century, the term \"anarchy\" first came into use in the English language.[^footnotedavis201959%e2%80%9360marshall2008487-23] It was used to describe the disorder that results from the absence of or opposition to authority, with John Milton writing of \"the waste/Wide anarchy of Chaos\" in Paradise Lost.11 Initially used as a pejorative descriptor for democracy, the two terms began to diverge following the Atlantic Revolutions, when democracy took on a positive connotation and was redefined as a form of elected, representational government.[^footnotedavis201959%e2%80%9360-25]
"},{"location":"archive/anarchy-wiki/#enlightenment-philosophy","title":"Enlightenment philosophy","text":"Political philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment contrasted the state with what they called the \"state of nature\", a hypothetical description of stateless society, although they disagreed on its definition.[^footnotemorris202039%e2%80%9340-26] Thomas Hobbes considered the state of nature to be a \"nightmare of permanent war of all against all\".[^footnotemarshall2008xsensen202099%e2%80%93100-27] In contrast, John Locke considered it to be a harmonious society in which people lived \"according to reason, without a common superior\". They would be subject only to natural law, with otherwise \"perfect freedom to order their actions\".12
In depicting the \"state of nature\" to be a free and equal society governed by natural law, Locke distinguished between society and the state.[^footnotemarshall200813%e2%80%9314-29] He argued that, without established laws, such a society would be inherently unstable, which would make a limited government necessary in order to protect people's natural rights.[^footnotemarshall200813%e2%80%9314,_129-30] He likewise argued that limiting the reach of the state was reasonable when peaceful cooperation without a state was possible.13 His thoughts on the state of nature and limited government ultimately provided the foundation for the classical liberal argument for laissez-faire.14
"},{"location":"archive/anarchy-wiki/#kants-thought-experiment","title":"Kant's thought experiment","text":"German idealist philosopher Immanuel Kant, who looked at anarchy as a thought experiment to justify government
Immanuel Kant defined \"anarchy\", in terms of the \"state of nature\", as a lack of government. He discussed the concept of anarchy in order to question why humanity ought to leave the state of nature behind and instead submit to a \"legitimate government\".15 In contrast to Thomas Hobbes, who conceived of the state of nature as a \"war of all against all\" which existed throughout the world, Kant considered it to be only a thought experiment. Kant believed that human nature drove people to not only seek out society but also to attempt to attain a superior hierarchical status.[^footnotesensen202099%e2%80%93100-34]
While Kant distinguished between different forms of the state of nature, contrasting the \"solitary\" form against the \"social\", he held that there was no means of distributive justice in such a circumstance. He considered that, without law, a judiciary and means for law enforcement, the danger of violence would be ever-present, as each person could only judge for themselves what is right without any form of arbitration. He thus concluded that human society ought to leave the state of nature behind and submit to the authority of a state.16 Kant argued that the threat of violence incentivises humans, by the need to preserve their own safety, to leave the state of nature and submit to the state.[^footnotesensen2020100%e2%80%93101-36] Based on his \"hypothetical imperative\", he argued that if humans desire to secure their own safety, then they ought to avoid anarchy.17 But he also argued, according to his \"categorical imperative\", that it is not only prudent but also a moral and political obligation to avoid anarchy and submit to a state.[^footnotesensen2020101%e2%80%93102-38] Kant thus concluded that even if people did not desire to leave anarchy, they ought to as a matter of duty to abide by universal laws.[^footnotesensen2020107%e2%80%93109-39]
"},{"location":"archive/anarchy-wiki/#defense-of-the-state-of-nature","title":"Defense of the state of nature","text":"In contrast, Edmund Burke's 1756 work A Vindication of Natural Society, argued in favour of anarchist society in a defense of the state of nature.18 Burke insisted that reason was all that was needed to govern society and that \"artificial laws\" had been responsible for all social conflict and inequality, which led him to denounce the church and the state.[^footnotemarshall2008133%e2%80%93134-41] Burke's anti-statist arguments preceded the work of classical anarchists and directly inspired the political philosophy of William Godwin.19
English political philosopher William Godwin, an early proponent of anarchy as a political regime
In his 1793 book Political Justice, Godwin proposed the creation of a more just and free society by abolishing government, concluding that order could be achieved through anarchy.[^footnotemarshall2008206mclaughlin2007117%e2%80%93118-43] Although he came to be known as a founding father of anarchism,20 Godwin himself mostly used the word \"anarchy\" in its negative definition,21 fearing that an immediate dissolution of government without any prior political development would lead to disorder.22 Godwin held that the anarchy could be best realised through gradual evolution, by cultivating reason through education, rather than through a sudden and violent revolution.23 But he also considered transitory anarchy to be preferable to lasting despotism, stating that anarchy bore a distorted resemblance to \"true liberty\"21 and could eventually give way to \"the best form of human society\".22
This positive conception of anarchy was soon taken up by other political philosophers. In his 1792 work The Limits of State Action, Wilhelm von Humboldt came to consider an anarchist society, which he conceived of as a community built on voluntary contracts between educated individuals, to be \"infinitely preferred to any State arrangements\".[^footnotemarshall2008154%e2%80%93155-48] The French political philosopher Donatien Alphonse Fran\u00e7ois, in his 1797 novel Juliette, questioned what form of government was best.24 He argued that it was passion, not law, that had driven human society forward, concluding by calling for the abolition of law and a return to a state of nature by accepting anarchy.[^footnotemarshall2008146%e2%80%93147-50] He concluded by declaring anarchy to be the best form of political regime, as it was law that gave rise to tyranny and anarchic revolution that was capable of bringing down bad governments.25 After the American Revolution, Thomas Jefferson suggested that a stateless society might lead to greater happiness for humankind and has been attributed the maxim \"that government is best which governs least\". Jefferson's political philosophy later inspired the development of individualist anarchism in the United States, with contemporary right-libertarians proposing that private property could be used to guarantee anarchy.26
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, the first person to self-identify with the term \"anarchist\" and one of the first to redefine \"anarchy\" in a positive sense
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was the first person known to self-identify as an anarchist, adopting the label in order to provoke those that took anarchy to mean disorder.27 Proudhon was one of the first people to use the word \"anarchy\" (French: anarchie) in a positive sense, to mean a free society without government.28 To Proudhon, as anarchy did not allow coercion, it could be defined synoymously with liberty.29 In arguing against monarchy, he claimed that \"the Republic is a positive anarchy ... it is the liberty that is the MOTHER, not the daughter, of order.\"28 While acknowledging this common definition of anarchy as disorder, Proudhon claimed that it was actually authoritarian government and wealth inequality that were the true causes of social disorder.30 By counterposing this against anarchy, which he defined as an absence of rulers,[^footnotemarshall20085,_239mckay2018118%e2%80%93119mclaughlin2007137-57] Proudhon declared that \"just as man seeks justice in equality, society seeks order in anarchy\".31 Proudhon based his case for anarchy on his conception of a just and moral state of nature.32
Proudhon posited federalism as an organizational form and mutualism as an economic form, which he believed would lead towards the end goal of anarchy.33 In his 1863 work The Federal Principle, Proudhon elaborated his view of anarchy as \"the government of each man by himself,\" using the English term of \"self-government\" as a synonym for it.34 According to Proudhon, under anarchy, \"all citizens reign and govern\" through direct participation in decision-making.35 He proposed that this could be achieved through a system of federalism and decentralisation,36 in which every community is self-governing and any delegation of decision-making is subject to immediate recall.35 He likewise called for the economy to be brought under industrial democracy, which would abolish private property.[^footnotemckay2018120%e2%80%93121-64] Proudhon believed that all this would eventually lead to anarchy, as individual and collective interests aligned and spontaneous order is achieved.[^footnotemarshall2008254%e2%80%93255-65]
Proudhon thus came to be known as the \"father of anarchy\" by the anarchist movement, which emerged from the libertarian socialist faction of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA).[^footnotemarshall2008235%e2%80%93236-66] Until the establishment of IWA in 1864, there had been no anarchist movement, only individuals and groups that saw anarchy as their end goal.37
Mikhail Bakunin, who infused the term \"anarchy\" with simultaneous positive and negative definitions
One of Proudhon's keenest students was the Russian revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, who adopted his critiques of private property and government, as well as his views on the desirability of anarchy.[^footnotemarshall2008269%e2%80%93270-68] During the Revolutions of 1848, Bakunin wrote of his hopes of igniting a revolutionary upheaval in the Russian Empire, writing to the German poet Georg Herwegh that \"I do not fear anarchy, but desire it with all my heart\". Although he still used the negative definition of anarchy as disorder, he nevertheless saw the need for \"something different: passion and life and a new world, lawless and thereby free.\"38
Bakunin popularised \"anarchy\" as a term,39 using both its negative and positive definitions,40 in order to respectively describe the disorderly destruction of revolution and the construction of a new social order in the post-revolutionary society.41 Bakunin envisioned the creation of an \"International Brotherhood\", which could lead people through \"the thick of popular anarchy\" in a social revolution.42 Upon joining the IWA, in 1869, Bakunin drew up a programme for such a Brotherhood, in which he infused the word \"anarchy\" with a more positive connotation:[^footnotemarshall2008281%e2%80%93282-74]
We do not fear anarchy, we invoke it. For we are convinced that anarchy, meaning the unrestricted manifestation of the liberated life of the people, must spring from liberty, equality, the new social order, and the force of the revolution itself against the reaction. There is no doubt that this new life \u2013 the popular revolution \u2013 will in good time organize itself, but it will create its revolutionary organization from the bottom up, from the circumference to the center, in accordance with the principle of liberty, and not from the top down or from the center to the circumference in the manner of all authority. It matters little to us if that authority is called Church, Monarchy, constitutional State, bourgeois Republic, or even revolutionary Dictatorship. We detest and reject all of them equally as the unfailing sources of exploitation and despotism.
State of nature
Amster, Randall (2018). \"Anti-Hierarchy\". In Franks, Benjamin; Jun, Nathan; Williams, Leonard (eds.). Anarchism: A Conceptual Approach. Routledge. pp.\u00a015\u201327. ISBN 978-1-138-92565-6. LCCN 2017044519.
Sensen, Oliver (2020). \"Kant on Anarchy\". In Chartier, Gary; Van Schoelandt, Chad (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought. New York: Routledge. pp.\u00a099\u2013111. doi:10.4324/9781315185255-7. ISBN 9781315185255. S2CID 228898569.
Crowe, Jonathan (2020). \"Anarchy and Law\". In Chartier, Gary; Van Schoelandt, Chad (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought. New York: Routledge. pp.\u00a0281\u2013294. doi:10.4324/9781315185255-20. ISBN 9781315185255. S2CID 228898569.
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Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0133.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0134.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0488.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0214, 488.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0214.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
McLaughlin 2007, p.\u00a0132.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0146.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0147.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0497.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0234.\u00a0\u21a9
Prichard 2019, p.\u00a071.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Prichard 2019, p.\u00a084.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0239.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a05, 239; McLaughlin 2007, p.\u00a0137.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a039.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a07.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0252, 254.\u00a0\u21a9
McKay 2018, p.\u00a0120.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0252; McKay 2018, p.\u00a0120.\u00a0\u21a9
Graham 2019, p.\u00a0326.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0271.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a05.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0265.\u00a0\u21a9
Graham 2019, p.\u00a0330; Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a05, 285, 306.\u00a0\u21a9
Graham 2019, p.\u00a0330.\u00a0\u21a9
Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, p.\u00a013; Marshall 2008, p.\u00a03.\u00a0\u21a9
Chartier & Van Schoelandt 2020, p.\u00a01; Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, p.\u00a013; Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a019\u201320; McKay 2018, pp.\u00a0118\u2013119.\u00a0\u21a9
Chartier & Van Schoelandt 2020, p.\u00a01; Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, pp.\u00a014\u201315.\u00a0\u21a9
Amster 2018, p.\u00a015; Bell 2020, p.\u00a0310; Boettke & Candela 2020, p.\u00a0226; Morris 2020, pp.\u00a039\u201342; Sensen 2020, p.\u00a099.\u00a0\u21a9
Bell 2020, p.\u00a0310; Boettke & Candela 2020, p.\u00a0226; Morris 2020, pp.\u00a043\u201345.\u00a0\u21a9
Boettke & Candela 2020, p.\u00a0226; Morris 2020, pp.\u00a039\u201340; Sensen 2020, p.\u00a099.\u00a0\u21a9
Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, pp.\u00a016\u201317.\u00a0\u21a9
Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, pp.\u00a017\u201318.\u00a0\u21a9
Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, p.\u00a09.\u00a0\u21a9
Dupuis-D\u00e9ri 2010, p.\u00a011.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0106\u2013107.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a098\u2013100.\u00a0\u21a9
Davis 2019, pp.\u00a059\u201360; Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0487.\u00a0\u21a9
Davis 2019, pp.\u00a059\u201360.\u00a0\u21a9
Morris 2020, pp.\u00a039\u201340.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0x; Sensen 2020, pp.\u00a099\u2013100.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a013\u201314.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a013\u201314, 129.\u00a0\u21a9
Sensen 2020, pp.\u00a099\u2013100.\u00a0\u21a9
Sensen 2020, pp.\u00a0100\u2013101.\u00a0\u21a9
Sensen 2020, pp.\u00a0101\u2013102.\u00a0\u21a9
Sensen 2020, pp.\u00a0107\u2013109.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0133\u2013134.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, p.\u00a0206; McLaughlin 2007, pp.\u00a0117\u2013118.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0154\u2013155.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0146\u2013147.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a05, 239; McKay 2018, pp.\u00a0118\u2013119; McLaughlin 2007, p.\u00a0137.\u00a0\u21a9
McKay 2018, pp.\u00a0120\u2013121.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0254\u2013255.\u00a0\u21a9
Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0235\u2013236.\u00a0\u21a9
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Marshall 2008, pp.\u00a0281\u2013282.\u00a0\u21a9
Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal')12 is a sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology within the socialist movement,1 whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products to everyone in society based on need.345 A communist society would entail the absence of private property and social classes,1 and ultimately money6 and the state (or nation state).789
Communists often seek a voluntary state of self-governance but disagree on the means to this end. This reflects a distinction between a libertarian socialist approach of communization, revolutionary spontaneity, and workers' self-management, and an authoritarian socialist, vanguardist, or party-driven approach under a socialist state, which is eventually expected to wither away.10 Communist parties and movements have been described as radical left or far-left.[^footnotemarch2009126%e2%80%93143-11]1112
Variants of communism have been developed throughout history, including anarchist communism, Marxist schools of thought, and religious communism, among others. Communism encompasses a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, Leninism, and libertarian communism, as well as the political ideologies grouped around those. All of these different ideologies generally share the analysis that the current order of society stems from capitalism, its economic system, and mode of production, that in this system there are two major social classes, that the relationship between these two classes is exploitative, and that this situation can only ultimately be resolved through a social revolution.1314 The two classes are the proletariat, who make up the majority of the population within society and must sell their labor power to survive, and the bourgeoisie, a small minority that derives profit from employing the working class through private ownership of the means of production.13 According to this analysis, a communist revolution would put the working class in power,15 and in turn establish common ownership of property, the primary element in the transformation of society towards a communist mode of production.[^steele_1992,_pp._44%e2%80%9345-25]1617
Communism in its modern form grew out of the socialist movement in 18th-century France, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Criticism of the idea of private property in the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century through such thinkers as Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Jean Meslier, \u00c9tienne-Gabriel Morelly, Henri de Saint-Simon and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France.18 During the upheaval of the French Revolution, communism emerged as a political doctrine under the auspices of Fran\u00e7ois-No\u00ebl Babeuf, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, and Sylvain Mar\u00e9chal, all of whom can be considered the progenitors of modern communism, according to James H. Billington.191 In the 20th century, several ostensibly Communist governments espousing Marxism\u2013Leninism and its variants came into power,2021 first in the Soviet Union with the Russian Revolution of 1917, and then in portions of Eastern Europe, Asia, and a few other regions after World War II.22 As one of the many types of socialism, communism became the dominant political tendency, along with social democracy, within the international socialist movement by the early 1920s.23
During most of the 20th century, around one-third of the world's population lived under Communist governments. These governments were characterized by one-party rule by a communist party, the rejection of private property and capitalism, state control of economic activity and mass media, restrictions on freedom of religion, and suppression of opposition and dissent. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, several previously Communist governments repudiated or abolished Communist rule altogether.12425 Afterwards, only a small number of nominally Communist governments remained, such as China,26 Cuba, Laos, North Korea,27 and Vietnam.[^footnotelansford20079%e2%80%9324,_36%e2%80%9344-49] With the exception of North Korea, all of these states have started allowing more economic competition while maintaining one-party rule.1 The decline of communism in the late 20th century has been attributed to the inherent inefficiencies of communist economies and the general trend of communist governments towards authoritarianism and bureaucracy.1[^footnotelansford20079%e2%80%9324,_36%e2%80%9344-49]28
While the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally Communist state led to communism's widespread association with the Soviet economic model, several scholars posit that in practice the model functioned as a form of state capitalism.2930 Public memory of 20th-century Communist states has been described as a battleground between anti anti-communism and anti-communism.31 Many authors have written about mass killings under communist regimes and mortality rates,32 such as excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin,33 which remain controversial, polarized, and debated topics in academia, historiography, and politics when discussing communism and the legacy of Communist states.34[page\u00a0needed]35[page\u00a0needed]
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#etymology-and-terminology","title":"Etymology and terminology","text":"Communism derives from the French word communisme, a combination of the Latin word communis (which literally means common) and the suffix \u2011isme (an act, practice, or process of doing something).3637 Semantically, communis can be translated to \"of or for the community\", while isme is a suffix that indicates the abstraction into a state, condition, action, or doctrine. Communism may be interpreted as \"the state of being of or for the community\"; this semantic constitution has led to numerous usages of the word in its evolution. Prior to becoming associated with its more modern conception of an economic and political organization, it was initially used to designate various social situations. After 1848, communism came to be primarily associated with Marxism, most specifically embodied in The Communist Manifesto, which proposed a particular type of communism.138
One of the first uses of the word in its modern sense is in a letter sent by Victor d'Hupay to Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne around 1785, in which d'Hupay describes himself as an auteur communiste (\"communist author\").39 In 1793, Restif first used communisme to describe a social order based on egalitarianism and the common ownership of property.40 Restif would go on to use the term frequently in his writing and was the first to describe communism as a form of government.41 John Goodwyn Barmby is credited with the first use of communism in English, around 1840.36
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#communism-and-socialism","title":"Communism and socialism","text":"Since the 1840s, the term communism has usually been distinguished from socialism. The modern definition and usage of the term socialism was settled by the 1860s, becoming predominant over alternative terms such as associationism (Fourierism), mutualism, or co-operative, which had previously been used as synonyms. Meanwhile, the term communism fell out of use during this period.[^footnotewilliams1983[httpsarchiveorgdetailskeywordsvocabula00willrichpage289_289]-81]
An early distinction between communism and socialism was that the latter aimed to only socialize production, whereas the former aimed to socialize both production and consumption (in the form of common access to final goods).5 This distinction can be observed in Marx's communism, where the distribution of products is based on the principle of \"to each according to his needs\", in contrast to a socialist principle of \"to each according to his contribution\".16 Socialism has been described as a philosophy seeking distributive justice, and communism as a subset of socialism that prefers economic equality as its form of distributive justice.42
In 19th century Europe, the use of the terms communism and socialism eventually accorded with the cultural attitude of adherents and opponents towards religion. In European Christendom, communism was believed to be the atheist way of life. In Protestant England, communism was too phonetically similar to the Roman Catholic communion rite, hence English atheists denoted themselves socialists.[^footnotewilliams1983[httpsarchiveorgdetailskeywordsvocabula00willrichpage289_289]-81] Friedrich Engels stated that in 1848, at the time when The Communist Manifesto was first published,43 socialism was respectable on the continent, while communism was not; the Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists, while working-class movements that \"proclaimed the necessity of total social change\" denoted themselves communists. This latter branch of socialism produced the communist work of \u00c9tienne Cabet in France and Wilhelm Weitling in Germany.44 While liberal democrats looked to the Revolutions of 1848 as a democratic revolution, which in the long run ensured liberty, equality, and fraternity, Marxists denounced 1848 as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a bourgeoisie indifferent to the legitimate demands of the proletariat.45
By 1888, Marxists employed the term socialism in place of communism, which had come to be considered an old-fashioned synonym for the former. It was not until 1917, with the October Revolution, that socialism came to be used to refer to a distinct stage between capitalism and communism. This intermediate stage was a concept introduced by Vladimir Lenin as a means to defend the Bolshevik seizure of power against traditional Marxist criticism that Russia's productive forces were not sufficiently developed for socialist revolution.[^steele_1992,_pp._44%e2%80%9345-25] A distinction between communist and socialist as descriptors of political ideologies arose in 1918 after the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party renamed itself as the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which resulted in the adjective Communist being used to refer to socialists who supported the politics and theories of Bolshevism, Leninism, and later in the 1920s those of Marxism\u2013Leninism.46 In spite of this common usage, Communist parties also continued to describe themselves as socialists dedicated to socialism.[^footnotewilliams1983[httpsarchiveorgdetailskeywordsvocabula00willrichpage289_289]-81]
According to The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, \"Marx used many terms to refer to a post-capitalist society\u00a0\u2013 positive humanism, socialism, Communism, realm of free individuality, free association of producers, etc. He used these terms completely interchangeably. The notion that 'socialism' and 'Communism' are distinct historical stages is alien to his work and only entered the lexicon of Marxism after his death.\"47 According to the Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica, \"Exactly how communism differs from socialism has long been a matter of debate, but the distinction rests largely on the communists' adherence to the revolutionary socialism of Karl Marx.\"1
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#associated-usage-and-communist-states","title":"Associated usage and Communist states","text":"The hammer and sickle is a common theme of communist symbolism. This is an example of a hammer and sickle and red star design from the flag of the Soviet Union.
In the United States, communism is widely used as a pejorative term as part of a Red Scare, much like socialism, and mainly in reference to authoritarian socialism and Communist states. The emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally Communist state led to the term's widespread association with Marxism\u2013Leninism and the Soviet-type economic planning model.14849 In his essay \"Judging Nazism and Communism\",50 Martin Malia defines a \"generic Communism\" category as any Communist political party movement led by intellectuals; this umbrella term allows grouping together such different regimes as radical Soviet industrialism and the Khmer Rouge's anti-urbanism.51 According to Alexander Dallin, the idea to group together different countries, such as Afghanistan and Hungary, has no adequate explanation.52
While the term Communist state is used by Western historians, political scientists, and news media to refer to countries ruled by Communist parties, these socialist states themselves did not describe themselves as communist or claim to have achieved communism; they referred to themselves as being a socialist state that is in the process of constructing communism.53 Terms used by Communist states include national-democratic, people's democratic, socialist-oriented, and workers and peasants' states.54
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#history","title":"History","text":""},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#early-communism","title":"Early communism","text":"According to Richard Pipes,55 the idea of a classless, egalitarian society first emerged in ancient Greece. Since the 20th century, ancient Rome has been examined in this context, as well as thinkers such as Aristotle, Cicero, Demosthenes, Plato, and Tacitus. Plato, in particular, has been considered as a possible communist or socialist theorist,56 or as the first author to give communism a serious consideration.57 The 5th-century Mazdak movement in Persia (modern-day Iran) has been described as communistic for challenging the enormous privileges of the noble classes and the clergy, criticizing the institution of private property, and striving to create an egalitarian society.5859 At one time or another, various small communist communities existed, generally under the inspiration of religious text.[^footnotelansford200724%e2%80%9325-56]
In the medieval Christian Church, some monastic communities and religious orders shared their land and their other property. Sects deemed heretical such as the Waldensians preached an early form of Christian communism.6061 As summarized by historians Janzen Rod and Max Stanton, the Hutterites believed in strict adherence to biblical principles, church discipline, and practised a form of communism. In their words, the Hutterites \"established in their communities a rigorous system of Ordnungen, which were codes of rules and regulations that governed all aspects of life and ensured a unified perspective. As an economic system, communism was attractive to many of the peasants who supported social revolution in sixteenth century central Europe.\"62 This link was highlighted in one of Karl Marx's early writings; Marx stated that \"[a]s Christ is the intermediary unto whom man unburdens all his divinity, all his religious bonds, so the state is the mediator unto which he transfers all his Godlessness, all his human liberty.\"63 Thomas M\u00fcntzer led a large Anabaptist communist movement during the German Peasants' War, which Friedrich Engels analyzed in his 1850 work The Peasant War in Germany. The Marxist communist ethos that aims for unity reflects the Christian universalist teaching that humankind is one and that there is only one god who does not discriminate among people.64
Thomas More, whose Utopia portrayed a society based on common ownership of property
Communist thought has also been traced back to the works of the 16th-century English writer Thomas More.65 In his 1516 treatise titled Utopia, More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property, whose rulers administered it through the application of reason and virtue.66 Marxist communist theoretician Karl Kautsky, who popularized Marxist communism in Western Europe more than any other thinker apart from Engels, published Thomas More and His Utopia, a work about More, whose ideas could be regarded as \"the foregleam of Modern Socialism\" according to Kautsky. During the October Revolution in Russia, Vladimir Lenin suggested that a monument be dedicated to More, alongside other important Western thinkers.67
In the 17th century, communist thought surfaced again in England, where a Puritan religious group known as the Diggers advocated the abolition of private ownership of land. In his 1895 Cromwell and Communism,68 Eduard Bernstein stated that several groups during the English Civil War (especially the Diggers) espoused clear communistic, agrarianist ideals and that Oliver Cromwell's attitude towards these groups was at best ambivalent and often hostile.6970 Criticism of the idea of private property continued into the Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century through such thinkers as Gabriel Bonnot de Mably, Jean Meslier, \u00c9tienne-Gabriel Morelly, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France.71 During the upheaval of the French Revolution, communism emerged as a political doctrine under the auspices of Fran\u00e7ois-No\u00ebl Babeuf, Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, and Sylvain Mar\u00e9chal, all of whom can be considered the progenitors of modern communism, according to James H. Billington.19
In the early 19th century, various social reformers founded communities based on common ownership. Unlike many previous communist communities, they replaced the religious emphasis with a rational and philanthropic basis.72 Notable among them were Robert Owen, who founded New Harmony, Indiana, in 1825, and Charles Fourier, whose followers organized other settlements in the United States, such as Brook Farm in 1841.1 In its modern form, communism grew out of the socialist movement in 19th-century Europe. As the Industrial Revolution advanced, socialist critics blamed capitalism for the misery of the proletariat\u00a0\u2013 a new class of urban factory workers who labored under often-hazardous conditions. Foremost among these critics were Marx and his associate Engels. In 1848, Marx and Engels offered a new definition of communism and popularized the term in their famous pamphlet The Communist Manifesto.1
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#revolutionary-wave-of-19171923","title":"Revolutionary wave of 1917\u20131923","text":"In 1917, the October Revolution in Russia set the conditions for the rise to state power of Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks, which was the first time any avowedly communist party reached that position. The revolution transferred power to the All-Russian Congress of Soviets in which the Bolsheviks had a majority.737475 The event generated a great deal of practical and theoretical debate within the Marxist movement, as Marx stated that socialism and communism would be built upon foundations laid by the most advanced capitalist development; however, the Russian Empire was one of the poorest countries in Europe with an enormous, largely illiterate peasantry, and a minority of industrial workers. Marx warned against attempts \"to transform my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into a historico-philosophy theory of the arche g\u00e9n\u00e9rale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself\",76 and stated that Russia might be able to skip the stage of bourgeois rule through the Obshchina.7778 The moderate Mensheviks (minority) opposed Lenin's Bolsheviks (majority) plan for socialist revolution before the capitalist mode of production was more fully developed. The Bolsheviks' successful rise to power was based upon the slogans such as \"Peace, Bread, and Land\", which tapped into the massive public desire for an end to Russian involvement in World War I, the peasants' demand for land reform, and popular support for the soviets.79 50,000 workers had passed a resolution in favour of Bolshevik demand for transfer of power to the soviets8081 Lenin's government also instituted a number of progressive measures such as universal education, healthcare and equal rights for women.828384 The initial stage of the October Revolution which involved the assault on Petrograd occurred largely without any human casualties.858687[page\u00a0needed]
By November 1917, the Russian Provisional Government had been widely discredited by its failure to withdraw from World War I, implement land reform, or convene the Russian Constituent Assembly to draft a constitution, leaving the soviets in de facto control of the country. The Bolsheviks moved to hand power to the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies in the October Revolution; after a few weeks of deliberation, the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries formed a coalition government with the Bolsheviks from November 1917 to July 1918, while the right-wing faction of the Socialist Revolutionary Party boycotted the soviets and denounced the October Revolution as an illegal coup. In the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly election, socialist parties totaled well over 70% of the vote. The Bolsheviks were clear winners in the urban centres, and took around two-thirds of the votes of soldiers on the Western Front, obtaining 23.3% of the vote; the Socialist Revolutionaries finished first on the strength of support from the country's rural peasantry, who were for the most part single issue voters, that issue being land reform, obtaining 37.6%, while the Ukrainian Socialist Bloc finished a distant third at 12.7%, and the Mensheviks obtained a disappointing fourth place at 3.0%.88
Most of the Socialist Revolutionary Party's seats went to the right-wing faction. Citing outdated voter-rolls, which did not acknowledge the party split, and the assembly's conflicts with the Congress of Soviets, the Bolshevik\u2013Left Socialist-Revolutionaries government moved to dissolve the Constituent Assembly in January 1918. The Draft Decree on the Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly was issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, a committee dominated by Lenin, who had previously supported a multi-party system of free elections. After the Bolshevik defeat, Lenin started referring to the assembly as a \"deceptive form of bourgeois-democratic parliamentarianism.\"88 Some argued this was the beginning of the development of vanguardism as an hierarchical party\u2013elite that controls society,89 which resulted in a split between anarchism and Marxism, and Leninist communism assuming the dominant position for most of the 20th century, excluding rival socialist currents.90
Other communists and Marxists, especially social democrats who favored the development of liberal democracy as a prerequisite to socialism, were critical of the Bolsheviks from the beginning due to Russia being seen as too backward for a socialist revolution.[^steele_1992,_pp._44%e2%80%9345-25] Council communism and left communism, inspired by the German Revolution of 1918\u20131919 and the wide proletarian revolutionary wave, arose in response to developments in Russia and are critical of self-declared constitutionally socialist states. Some left-wing parties, such as the Socialist Party of Great Britain, boasted of having called the Bolsheviks, and by extension those Communist states which either followed or were inspired by the Soviet Bolshevik model of development, establishing state capitalism in late 1917, as would be described during the 20th century by several academics, economists, and other scholars,29 or a command economy.919293 Before the Soviet path of development became known as socialism, in reference to the two-stage theory, communists made no major distinction between the socialist mode of production and communism;47 it is consistent with, and helped to inform, early concepts of socialism in which the law of value no longer directs economic activity. Monetary relations in the form of exchange-value, profit, interest, and wage labor would not operate and apply to Marxist socialism.17
While Joseph Stalin stated that the law of value would still apply to socialism and that the Soviet Union was socialist under this new definition, which was followed by other Communist leaders, many other communists maintain the original definition and state that Communist states never established socialism in this sense. Lenin described his policies as state capitalism but saw them as necessary for the development of socialism, which left-wing critics say was never established, while some Marxist\u2013Leninists state that it was established only during the Stalin era and Mao era, and then became capitalist states ruled by revisionists; others state that Maoist China was always state capitalist, and uphold People's Socialist Republic of Albania as the only socialist state after the Soviet Union under Stalin,9495 who first stated to have achieved socialism with the 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union.96
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#communist-states","title":"Communist states","text":""},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#soviet-union","title":"Soviet Union","text":"War communism was the first system adopted by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War as a result of the many challenges.97 Despite communism in the name, it had nothing to do with communism, with strict discipline for workers, strike actions forbidden, obligatory labor duty, and military-style control, and has been described as simple authoritarian control by the Bolsheviks to maintain power and control in the Soviet regions, rather than any coherent political ideology.98 The Soviet Union was established in 1922. Before the broad ban in 1921, there were several factions in the Communist party, more prominently among them the Left Opposition, the Right Opposition, and the Workers' Opposition, which debated on the path of development to follow. The Left and Workers' oppositions were more critical of the state-capitalist development and the Workers' in particular was critical of bureaucratization and development from above, while the Right Opposition was more supporting of state-capitalist development and advocated the New Economic Policy.97 Following Lenin's democratic centralism, the Leninist parties were organized on a hierarchical basis, with active cells of members as the broad base. They were made up only of elite cadres approved by higher members of the party as being reliable and completely subject to party discipline.99 Trotskyism overtook the left communists as the main dissident communist current, while more libertarian communisms, dating back to the libertarian Marxist current of council communism, remained important dissident communisms outside the Soviet Union. Following Lenin's democratic centralism, the Leninist parties were organized on a hierarchical basis, with active cells of members as the broad base. They were made up only of elite cadres approved by higher members of the party as being reliable and completely subject to party discipline. The Great Purge of 1936\u20131938 was Joseph Stalin's attempt to destroy any possible opposition within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In the Moscow trials, many old Bolsheviks who had played prominent roles during the Russian Revolution or in Lenin's Soviet government afterwards, including Lev Kamenev, Grigory Zinoviev, Alexei Rykov, and Nikolai Bukharin, were accused, pleaded guilty of conspiracy against the Soviet Union, and were executed.10099
The devastation of World War II resulted in a massive recovery program involving the rebuilding of industrial plants, housing, and transportation as well as the demobilization and migration of millions of soldiers and civilians. In the midst of this turmoil during the winter of 1946\u20131947, the Soviet Union experienced the worst natural famine in the 20th century.101[page\u00a0needed] There was no serious opposition to Stalin as the secret police continued to send possible suspects to the gulag. Relations with the United States and Britain went from friendly to hostile, as they denounced Stalin's political controls over eastern Europe and his Berlin Blockade. By 1947, the Cold War had begun. Stalin himself believed that capitalism was a hollow shell and would crumble under increased non-military pressure exerted through proxies in countries like Italy. He greatly underestimated the economic strength of the West and instead of triumph saw the West build up alliances that were designed to permanently stop or contain Soviet expansion. In early 1950, Stalin gave the go-ahead for North Korea's invasion of South Korea, expecting a short war. He was stunned when the Americans entered and defeated the North Koreans, putting them almost on the Soviet border. Stalin supported China's entry into the Korean War, which drove the Americans back to the prewar boundaries, but which escalated tensions. The United States decided to mobilize its economy for a long contest with the Soviets, built the hydrogen bomb, and strengthened the NATO alliance that covered Western Europe.102
According to Gorlizki and Khlevniuk, Stalin's consistent and overriding goal after 1945 was to consolidate the nation's superpower status and in the face of his growing physical decrepitude, to maintain his own hold on total power. Stalin created a leadership system that reflected historic czarist styles of paternalism and repression yet was also quite modern. At the top, personal loyalty to Stalin counted for everything. Stalin also created powerful committees, elevated younger specialists, and began major institutional innovations. In the teeth of persecution, Stalin's deputies cultivated informal norms and mutual understandings which provided the foundations for collective rule after his death.101[page\u00a0needed]
For most Westerners and anti-communist Russians, Stalin is viewed overwhelmingly negatively as a mass murderer; for significant numbers of Russians and Georgians, he is regarded as a great statesman and state-builder.103
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#china","title":"China","text":"Mao Zedong proclaiming the foundation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
After the Chinese Civil War, Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949 as the Nationalist government headed by the Kuomintang fled to the island of Taiwan. In 1950\u20131953, China engaged in a large-scale, undeclared war with the United States, South Korea, and United Nations forces in the Korean War. While the war ended in a military stalemate, it gave Mao the opportunity to identify and purge elements in China that seemed supportive of capitalism. At first, there was close cooperation with Stalin, who sent in technical experts to aid the industrialization process along the line of the Soviet model of the 1930s.[^footnotebrown2009179%e2%80%93193-147] After Stalin's death in 1953, relations with Moscow soured\u00a0\u2013 Mao thought Stalin's successors had betrayed the Communist ideal. Mao charged that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of a \"revisionist clique\" which had turned against Marxism and Leninism and was now setting the stage for the restoration of capitalism.104 The two nations were at sword's point by 1960. Both began forging alliances with communist supporters around the globe, thereby splitting the worldwide movement into two hostile camps.105
Rejecting the Soviet model of rapid urbanization, Mao Zedong and his top aide Deng Xiaoping launched the Great Leap Forward in 1957\u20131961 with the goal of industrializing China overnight, using the peasant villages as the base rather than large cities.[^footnotebrown2009316%e2%80%93332-150] Private ownership of land ended and the peasants worked in large collective farms that were now ordered to start up heavy industry operations, such as steel mills. Plants were built in remote locations, due to the lack of technical experts, managers, transportation, or needed facilities. Industrialization failed, and the main result was a sharp unexpected decline in agricultural output, which led to mass famine and millions of deaths. The years of the Great Leap Forward in fact saw economic regression, with 1958 through 1961 being the only years between 1953 and 1983 in which China's economy saw negative growth. Political economist Dwight Perkins argues: \"Enormous amounts of investment produced only modest increases in production or none at all. ... In short, the Great Leap was a very expensive disaster.\"106 Put in charge of rescuing the economy, Deng adopted pragmatic policies that the idealistic Mao disliked. For a while, Mao was in the shadows but returned to center stage and purged Deng and his allies in the Cultural Revolution (1966\u20131976).107
The Cultural Revolution was an upheaval that targeted intellectuals and party leaders from 1966 through 1976. Mao's goal was to purify communism by removing pro-capitalists and traditionalists by imposing Maoist orthodoxy within the Chinese Communist Party. The movement paralyzed China politically and weakened the country economically, culturally, and intellectually for years. Millions of people were accused, humiliated, stripped of power, and either imprisoned, killed, or most often, sent to work as farm laborers. Mao insisted that those he labelled revisionists be removed through violent class struggle. The two most prominent militants were Marshall Lin Biao of the army and Mao's wife Jiang Qing. China's youth responded to Mao's appeal by forming Red Guard groups around the country. The movement spread into the military, urban workers, and the Communist party leadership itself. It resulted in widespread factional struggles in all walks of life. In the top leadership, it led to a mass purge of senior officials who were accused of taking a \"capitalist road\", most notably Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. During the same period, Mao's personality cult grew to immense proportions. After Mao's death in 1976, the survivors were rehabilitated and many returned to power.108[page\u00a0needed]
Mao's government was responsible for vast numbers of deaths with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims through starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions.109110111112 Mao has also been praised for transforming China from a semi-colony to a leading world power, with greatly advanced literacy, women's rights, basic healthcare, primary education, and life expectancy.113114115116
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#cold-war","title":"Cold War","text":"States that had communist governments in red, states that the Soviet Union believed at one point to be moving toward socialism in orange, and states with constitutional references to socialism in yellow
Its leading role in World War II saw the emergence of the industrialized Soviet Union as a superpower.117118 Marxist\u2013Leninist governments modeled on the Soviet Union took power with Soviet assistance in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Romania. A Marxist\u2013Leninist government was also created under Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia; Tito's independent policies led to the Tito\u2013Stalin split and expulsion of Yugoslavia from the Cominform in 1948, and Titoism was branded deviationist. Albania also became an independent Marxist\u2013Leninist state following the Albanian\u2013Soviet split in 1960,9495 resulting from an ideological fallout between Enver Hoxha, a Stalinist, and the Soviet government of Nikita Khrushchev, who enacted a period of de-Stalinization and re-approached diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia in 1976.119 The Communist Party of China, led by Mao Zedong, established the People's Republic of China, which would follow its own ideological path of development following the Sino-Soviet split.120 Communism was seen as a rival of and a threat to Western capitalism for most of the 20th century.121
In Western Europe, communist parties were part of several post-war governments, and even when the Cold War forced many of those countries to remove them from government, such as in Italy, they remained part of the liberal-democratic process.122123 There were also many developments in libertarian Marxism, especially during the 1960s with the New Left.124 By the 1960s and 1970s, many Western communist parties had criticized many of the actions of communist states, distanced from them, and developed a democratic road to socialism, which became known as Eurocommunism.122 This development was criticized by more orthodox supporters of the Soviet Union as amounting to social democracy.125
Since 1957, communists have been frequently voted into power in the Indian state of Kerala.126
In 1959, Cuban communist revolutionaries overthrew Cuba's previous government under the dictator Fulgencio Batista. The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, ruled Cuba from 1959 until 2008.127
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#dissolution-of-the-soviet-union","title":"Dissolution of the Soviet Union","text":"With the fall of the Warsaw Pact after the Revolutions of 1989, which led to the fall of most of the former Eastern Bloc, the Soviet Union was dissolved on 26 December 1991. It was a result of the declaration number 142-\u041d of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.128 The declaration acknowledged the independence of the former Soviet republics and created the Commonwealth of Independent States, although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do it at all. On the previous day, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev (the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union) resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers, including control of the Cheget, to Russian president Boris Yeltsin. That evening at 7:32, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary Russian flag. Previously, from August to December 1991, all the individual republics, including Russia itself, had seceded from the union. The week before the union's formal dissolution, eleven republics signed the Alma-Ata Protocol, formally establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States, and declared that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.129130
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#post-soviet-communism","title":"Post-Soviet communism","text":"18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
Communist flag at night at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, year 2024
As of 2023, states controlled by Communist parties under a single-party system include the People's Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Communist parties, or their descendant parties, remain politically important in several other countries. With the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Fall of Communism, there was a split between those hardline Communists, sometimes referred to in the media as neo-Stalinists, who remained committed to orthodox Marxism\u2013Leninism, and those, such as The Left in Germany, who work within the liberal-democratic process for a democratic road to socialism;131 other ruling Communist parties became closer to democratic socialist and social-democratic parties.132 Outside Communist states, reformed Communist parties have led or been part of left-leaning government or regional coalitions, including in the former Eastern Bloc. In Nepal, Communists (CPN UML and Nepal Communist Party) were part of the 1st Nepalese Constituent Assembly, which abolished the monarchy in 2008 and turned the country into a federal liberal-democratic republic, and have democratically shared power with other communists, Marxist\u2013Leninists, and Maoists (CPN Maoist), social democrats (Nepali Congress), and others as part of their People's Multiparty Democracy.133134 The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has some supporters, but is reformist rather than revolutionary, aiming to lessen the inequalities of Russia's market economy.1
Chinese economic reforms were started in 1978 under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, and since then China has managed to bring down the poverty rate from 53% in the Mao era to just 8% in 2001.135 After losing Soviet subsidies and support, Vietnam and Cuba have attracted more foreign investment to their countries, with their economies becoming more market-oriented.1 North Korea, the last Communist country that still practices Soviet-style Communism, is both repressive and isolationist.1
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#theory","title":"Theory","text":"Communist political thought and theory are diverse but share several core elements.136 The dominant forms of communism are based on Marxism or Leninism but non-Marxist versions of communism also exist, such as anarcho-communism and Christian communism, which remain partly influenced by Marxist theories, such as libertarian Marxism and humanist Marxism in particular. Common elements include being theoretical rather than ideological, identifying political parties not by ideology but by class and economic interest, and identifying with the proletariat. According to communists, the proletariat can avoid mass unemployment only if capitalism is overthrown; in the short run, state-oriented communists favor state ownership of the commanding heights of the economy as a means to defend the proletariat from capitalist pressure. Some communists are distinguished by other Marxists in seeing peasants and smallholders of property as possible allies in their goal of shortening the abolition of capitalism.137
For Leninist communism, such goals, including short-term proletarian interests to improve their political and material conditions, can only be achieved through vanguardism, an elitist form of socialism from above that relies on theoretical analysis to identify proletarian interests rather than consulting the proletarians themselves,137 as is advocated by libertarian communists.10 When they engage in elections, Leninist communists' main task is that of educating voters in what are deemed their true interests rather than in response to the expression of interest by voters themselves. When they have gained control of the state, Leninist communists' main task was preventing other political parties from deceiving the proletariat, such as by running their own independent candidates. This vanguardist approach comes from their commitments to democratic centralism in which communists can only be cadres, i.e. members of the party who are full-time professional revolutionaries, as was conceived by Vladimir Lenin.137
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#marxist-communism","title":"Marxist communism","text":"A monument dedicated to Karl Marx (left) and Friedrich Engels (right) in Shanghai
Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand social class relations and social conflict and a dialectical perspective to view social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. As Marxism has developed over time into various branches and schools of thought, no single, definitive Marxist theory exists.138 Marxism considers itself to be the embodiment of scientific socialism but does not model an ideal society based on the design of intellectuals, whereby communism is seen as a state of affairs to be established based on any intelligent design; rather, it is a non-idealist attempt at the understanding of material history and society, whereby communism is the expression of a real movement, with parameters that are derived from actual life.139
According to Marxist theory, class conflict arises in capitalist societies due to contradictions between the material interests of the oppressed and exploited proletariat\u00a0\u2013 a class of wage laborers employed to produce goods and services\u00a0\u2013 and the bourgeoisie\u00a0\u2013 the ruling class that owns the means of production and extracts its wealth through appropriation of the surplus product produced by the proletariat in the form of profit. This class struggle that is commonly expressed as the revolt of a society's productive forces against its relations of production, results in a period of short-term crises as the bourgeoisie struggle to manage the intensifying alienation of labor experienced by the proletariat, albeit with varying degrees of class consciousness. In periods of deep crisis, the resistance of the oppressed can culminate in a proletarian revolution which, if victorious, leads to the establishment of the socialist mode of production based on social ownership of the means of production, \"To each according to his contribution\", and production for use. As the productive forces continued to advance, the communist society, i.e. a classless, stateless, humane society based on common ownership, follows the maxim \"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.\"47
While it originates from the works of Marx and Engels, Marxism has developed into many different branches and schools of thought, with the result that there is now no single definitive Marxist theory.138 Different Marxian schools place a greater emphasis on certain aspects of classical Marxism while rejecting or modifying other aspects. Many schools of thought have sought to combine Marxian concepts and non-Marxian concepts, which has then led to contradictory conclusions.140 There is a movement toward the recognition that historical materialism and dialectical materialism remain the fundamental aspects of all Marxist schools of thought.59 Marxism\u2013Leninism and its offshoots are the most well-known of these and have been a driving force in international relations during most of the 20th century.141
Classical Marxism is the economic, philosophical, and sociological theories expounded by Marx and Engels as contrasted with later developments in Marxism, especially Leninism and Marxism\u2013Leninism.142 Orthodox Marxism is the body of Marxist thought that emerged after the death of Marx and which became the official philosophy of the socialist movement as represented in the Second International until World War I in 1914. Orthodox Marxism aims to simplify, codify, and systematize Marxist method and theory by clarifying the perceived ambiguities and contradictions of classical Marxism. The philosophy of orthodox Marxism includes the understanding that material development (advances in technology in the productive forces) is the primary agent of change in the structure of society and of human social relations and that social systems and their relations (e.g. feudalism, capitalism, and so on) become contradictory and inefficient as the productive forces develop, which results in some form of social revolution arising in response to the mounting contradictions. This revolutionary change is the vehicle for fundamental society-wide changes and ultimately leads to the emergence of new economic systems.143 As a term, orthodox Marxism represents the methods of historical materialism and of dialectical materialism, and not the normative aspects inherent to classical Marxism, without implying dogmatic adherence to the results of Marx's investigations.144
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#marxist-concepts","title":"Marxist concepts","text":""},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#class-conflict-and-historical-materialism","title":"Class conflict and historical materialism","text":"At the root of Marxism is historical materialism, the materialist conception of history which holds that the key characteristic of economic systems through history has been the mode of production and that the change between modes of production has been triggered by class struggle. According to this analysis, the Industrial Revolution ushered the world into the new capitalist mode of production. Before capitalism, certain working classes had ownership of instruments used in production; however, because machinery was much more efficient, this property became worthless and the mass majority of workers could only survive by selling their labor to make use of someone else's machinery, and making someone else profit. Accordingly, capitalism divided the world between two major classes, namely that of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. These classes are directly antagonistic as the latter possesses private ownership of the means of production, earning profit via the surplus value generated by the proletariat, who have no ownership of the means of production and therefore no option but to sell its labor to the bourgeoisie.145
According to the materialist conception of history, it is through the furtherance of its own material interests that the rising bourgeoisie within feudalism captured power and abolished, of all relations of private property, only the feudal privilege, thereby taking the feudal ruling class out of existence. This was another key element behind the consolidation of capitalism as the new mode of production, the final expression of class and property relations that has led to a massive expansion of production. It is only in capitalism that private property in itself can be abolished.146 Similarly, the proletariat would capture political power, abolish bourgeois property through the common ownership of the means of production, therefore abolishing the bourgeoisie, ultimately abolishing the proletariat itself and ushering the world into communism as a new mode of production. In between capitalism and communism, there is the dictatorship of the proletariat; it is the defeat of the bourgeois state but not yet of the capitalist mode of production, and at the same time the only element which places into the realm of possibility moving on from this mode of production. This dictatorship, based on the Paris Commune's model,147 is to be the most democratic state where the whole of the public authority is elected and recallable under the basis of universal suffrage.148
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#critique-of-political-economy","title":"Critique of political economy","text":"Critique of political economy is a form of social critique that rejects the various social categories and structures that constitute the mainstream discourse concerning the forms and modalities of resource allocation and income distribution in the economy. Communists, such as Marx and Engels, are described as prominent critics of political economy.149150151 The critique rejects economists' use of what its advocates believe are unrealistic axioms, faulty historical assumptions, and the normative use of various descriptive narratives.152 They reject what they describe as mainstream economists' tendency to posit the economy as an a priori societal category.153 Those who engage in critique of economy tend to reject the view that the economy and its categories is to be understood as something transhistorical.154[^footnotepostone199544,_192%e2%80%93216-200] It is seen as merely one of many types of historically specific ways to distribute resources. They argue that it is a relatively new mode of resource distribution, which emerged along with modernity.155156157
Critics of economy critique the given status of the economy itself, and do not aim to create theories regarding how to administer economies.158159 Critics of economy commonly view what is most commonly referred to as the economy as being bundles of metaphysical concepts, as well as societal and normative practices, rather than being the result of any self-evident or proclaimed economic laws.153 They also tend to consider the views which are commonplace within the field of economics as faulty, or simply as pseudoscience.160161 Into the 21st century, there are multiple critiques of political economy; what they have in common is the critique of what critics of political economy tend to view as dogma, i.e. claims of the economy as a necessary and transhistorical societal category.162
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#marxian-economics","title":"Marxian economics","text":"Marxian economics and its proponents view capitalism as economically unsustainable and incapable of improving the living standards of the population due to its need to compensate for falling rates of profit by cutting employee's wages, social benefits, and pursuing military aggression. The communist mode of production would succeed capitalism as humanity's new mode of production through workers' revolution. According to Marxian crisis theory, communism is not an inevitability but an economic necessity.163
An important concept in Marxism is socialization, i.e. social ownership, versus nationalization. Nationalization is state ownership of property whereas socialization is control and management of property by society. Marxism considers the latter as its goal and considers nationalization a tactical issue, as state ownership is still in the realm of the capitalist mode of production. In the words of Friedrich Engels, \"the transformation ... into State-ownership does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. ... State-ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict, but concealed within it are the technical conditions that form the elements of that solution.\"164 This has led Marxist groups and tendencies critical of the Soviet model to label states based on nationalization, such as the Soviet Union, as state capitalist, a view that is also shared by several scholars.299193
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#democracy-in-marxism","title":"Democracy in Marxism","text":"In Marxist theory, a new democratic society will arise through the organised actions of an international working class, enfranchising the entire population and freeing up humans to act without being bound by the labour market.165166 There would be little, if any, need for a state, the goal of which was to enforce the alienation of labor;165 as such, the state would eventually wither away as its conditions of existence disappear.167168169 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels stated in The Communist Manifesto and later works that \"the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle of democracy\" and universal suffrage, being \"one of the first and most important tasks of the militant proletariat\".170171172 As Marx wrote in his Critique of the Gotha Program, \"between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat\".173 He allowed for the possibility of peaceful transition in some countries with strong democratic institutional structures (such as Britain, the US and the Netherlands), but suggested that in other countries in which workers can not \"attain their goal by peaceful means\" the \"lever of our revolution must be force\", stating that the working people had the right to revolt if they were denied political expression.174175 In response to the question \"What will be the course of this revolution?\" in Principles of Communism, Friedrich Engels wrote:
Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat.
While Marxists propose replacing the bourgeois state with a proletarian semi-state through revolution (dictatorship of the proletariat), which would eventually wither away, anarchists warn that the state must be abolished along with capitalism. Nonetheless, the desired end results, a stateless, communal society, are the same.176
Karl Marx criticized liberalism as not democratic enough and found the unequal social situation of the workers during the Industrial Revolution undermined the democratic agency of citizens.177 Marxists differ in their positions towards democracy.178179
controversy over Marx's legacy today turns largely on its ambiguous relation to democracy
\u2014\u200aRobert Meister337
Some argue democratic decision-making consistent with Marxism should include voting on how surplus labor is to be organized.180
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#leninist-communism","title":"Leninist communism","text":"We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society. The teachings about this society are called \"socialism\".
Vladimir Lenin, To the Rural Poor (1903)181
Leninism is a political ideology developed by Russian Marxist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin that proposes the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, led by a revolutionary vanguard party, as the political prelude to the establishment of communism. The function of the Leninist vanguard party is to provide the working classes with the political consciousness (education and organisation) and revolutionary leadership necessary to depose capitalism in the Russian Empire (1721\u20131917).182
Leninist revolutionary leadership is based upon The Communist Manifesto (1848), identifying the Communist party as \"the most advanced and resolute section of the working class parties of every country; that section which pushes forward all others.\" As the vanguard party, the Bolsheviks viewed history through the theoretical framework of dialectical materialism, which sanctioned political commitment to the successful overthrow of capitalism, and then to instituting socialism; and as the revolutionary national government, to realize the socio-economic transition by all means.183[full citation needed]
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Marxism\u2013Leninism is a political ideology developed by Joseph Stalin.184 According to its proponents, it is based on Marxism and Leninism. It describes the specific political ideology which Stalin implemented in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and in a global scale in the Comintern. There is no definite agreement between historians about whether Stalin actually followed the principles of Marx and Lenin.185 It also contains aspects which according to some are deviations from Marxism such as socialism in one country.186187 Marxism\u2013Leninism was the official ideology of 20th-century Communist parties (including Trotskyist), and was developed after the death of Lenin; its three principles were dialectical materialism, the leading role of the Communist party through democratic centralism, and a planned economy with industrialization and agricultural collectivization. Marxism\u2013Leninism is misleading because Marx and Lenin never sanctioned or supported the creation of an -ism after them, and is revealing because, being popularized after Lenin's death by Stalin, it contained those three doctrinal and institutionalized principles that became a model for later Soviet-type regimes; its global influence, having at its height covered at least one-third of the world's population, has made Marxist\u2013Leninist a convenient label for the Communist bloc as a dynamic ideological order.188189
During the Cold War, Marxism\u2013Leninism was the ideology of the most clearly visible communist movement and is the most prominent ideology associated with communism.141190 Social fascism was a theory supported by the Comintern and affiliated Communist parties during the early 1930s, which held that social democracy was a variant of fascism because it stood in the way of a dictatorship of the proletariat, in addition to a shared corporatist economic model.191 At the time, leaders of the Comintern, such as Stalin and Rajani Palme Dutt, stated that capitalist society had entered the Third Period in which a proletariat revolution was imminent but could be prevented by social democrats and other fascist forces.191192 The term social fascist was used pejoratively to describe social-democratic parties, anti-Comintern and progressive socialist parties and dissenters within Comintern affiliates throughout the interwar period. The social fascism theory was advocated vociferously by the Communist Party of Germany, which was largely controlled and funded by the Soviet leadership from 1928.192
Within Marxism\u2013Leninism, anti-revisionism is a position which emerged in the 1950s in opposition to the reforms and Khrushchev Thaw of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Where Khrushchev pursued an interpretation that differed from Stalin, the anti-revisionists within the international communist movement remained dedicated to Stalin's ideological legacy and criticized the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and his successors as state capitalist and social imperialist due to its hopes of achieving peace with the United States. The term Stalinism is also used to describe these positions but is often not used by its supporters who opine that Stalin practiced orthodox Marxism and Leninism. Because different political trends trace the historical roots of revisionism to different eras and leaders, there is significant disagreement today as to what constitutes anti-revisionism. Modern groups which describe themselves as anti-revisionist fall into several categories. Some uphold the works of Stalin and Mao Zedong and some the works of Stalin while rejecting Mao and universally tend to oppose Trotskyism. Others reject both Stalin and Mao, tracing their ideological roots back to Marx and Lenin. In addition, other groups uphold various less-well-known historical leaders such as Enver Hoxha, who also broke with Mao during the Sino-Albanian split.9495 Social imperialism was a term used by Mao to criticize the Soviet Union post-Stalin. Mao stated that the Soviet Union had itself become an imperialist power while maintaining a socialist fa\u00e7ade.193 Hoxha agreed with Mao in this analysis, before later using the expression to also condemn Mao's Three Worlds Theory.194
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Stalinism represents Stalin's style of governance as opposed to Marxism\u2013Leninism, the socioeconomic system and political ideology implemented by Stalin in the Soviet Union, and later adapted by other states based on the ideological Soviet model, such as central planning, nationalization, and one-party state, along with public ownership of the means of production, accelerated industrialization, pro-active development of society's productive forces (research and development), and nationalized natural resources. Marxism\u2013Leninism remained after de-Stalinization whereas Stalinism did not. In the last letters before his death, Lenin warned against the danger of Stalin's personality and urged the Soviet government to replace him.59 Until the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Communist party referred to its own ideology as Marxism\u2013Leninism\u2013Stalinism.137
Marxism\u2013Leninism has been criticized by other communist and Marxist tendencies, which state that Marxist\u2013Leninist states did not establish socialism but rather state capitalism.299193 According to Marxism, the dictatorship of the proletariat represents the rule of the majority (democracy) rather than of one party, to the extent that the co-founder of Marxism, Friedrich Engels, described its \"specific form\" as the democratic republic.195 According to Engels, state property by itself is private property of capitalist nature,164 unless the proletariat has control of political power, in which case it forms public property.196 Whether the proletariat was actually in control of the Marxist\u2013Leninist states is a matter of debate between Marxism\u2013Leninism and other communist tendencies. To these tendencies, Marxism\u2013Leninism is neither Marxism nor Leninism nor the union of both but rather an artificial term created to justify Stalin's ideological distortion,197 forced into the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Comintern. In the Soviet Union, this struggle against Marxism\u2013Leninism was represented by Trotskyism, which describes itself as a Marxist and Leninist tendency.198
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Trotskyism, developed by Leon Trotsky in opposition to Stalinism,199 is a Marxist and Leninist tendency that supports the theory of permanent revolution and world revolution rather than the two-stage theory and Stalin's socialism in one country. It supported another communist revolution in the Soviet Union and proletarian internationalism.200
Rather than representing the dictatorship of the proletariat, Trotsky claimed that the Soviet Union had become a degenerated workers' state under the leadership of Stalin in which class relations had re-emerged in a new form. Trotsky's politics differed sharply from those of Stalin and Mao, most importantly in declaring the need for an international proletarian revolution\u00a0\u2013 rather than socialism in one country\u00a0\u2013 and support for a true dictatorship of the proletariat based on democratic principles. Struggling against Stalin for power in the Soviet Union, Trotsky and his supporters organized into the Left Opposition,201 the platform of which became known as Trotskyism.199
In particular, Trotsky advocated for a decentralised form of economic planning,202 mass soviet democratization,203 elected representation of Soviet socialist parties,204205 the tactic of a united front against far-right parties,206 cultural autonomy for artistic movements,207 voluntary collectivisation,208209 a transitional program210 and socialist internationalism.211
Trotsky had the support of many party intellectuals but this was overshadowed by the huge apparatus which included the GPU and the party cadres who were at the disposal of Stalin.212 Stalin eventually succeeded in gaining control of the Soviet regime and Trotskyist attempts to remove Stalin from power resulted in Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929. While in exile, Trotsky continued his campaign against Stalin, founding in 1938 the Fourth International, a Trotskyist rival to the Comintern.213214215 In August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico City on Stalin's orders. Trotskyist currents include orthodox Trotskyism, third camp, Posadism, and Pabloism.216217
The economic platform of a planned economy combined with an authentic worker's democracy as originally advocated by Trotsky has constituted the programme of the Fourth International and the modern Trotskyist movement.218
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Maoism is the theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong. Developed from the 1950s until the Deng Xiaoping Chinese economic reform in the 1970s, it was widely applied as the guiding political and military ideology of the Communist Party of China and as the theory guiding revolutionary movements around the world. A key difference between Maoism and other forms of Marxism\u2013Leninism is that peasants should be the bulwark of the revolutionary energy which is led by the working class.219 Three common Maoist values are revolutionary populism, being practical, and dialectics.220
The synthesis of Marxism\u2013Leninism\u2013Maoism,221 which builds upon the two individual theories as the Chinese adaption of Marxism\u2013Leninism, did not occur during the life of Mao. After de-Stalinization, Marxism\u2013Leninism was kept in the Soviet Union, while certain anti-revisionist tendencies like Hoxhaism and Maoism stated that such had deviated from its original concept. Different policies were applied in Albania and China, which became more distanced from the Soviet Union. From the 1960s, groups who called themselves Maoists, or those who upheld Maoism, were not unified around a common understanding of Maoism, instead having their own particular interpretations of the political, philosophical, economical, and military works of Mao. Its adherents claim that as a unified, coherent higher stage of Marxism, it was not consolidated until the 1980s, first being formalized by the Shining Path in 1982.222 Through the experience of the people's war waged by the party, the Shining Path were able to posit Maoism as the newest development of Marxism.222
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#eurocommunism","title":"Eurocommunism","text":"Enrico Berlinguer, the secretary of the Italian Communist Party and main proponent of Eurocommunism
Eurocommunism was a revisionist trend in the 1970s and 1980s within various Western European communist parties, claiming to develop a theory and practice of social transformation more relevant to their region. Especially prominent within the French Communist Party, Italian Communist Party, and Communist Party of Spain, Communists of this nature sought to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union and its All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) during the Cold War.122 Eurocommunists tended to have a larger attachment to liberty and democracy than their Marxist\u2013Leninist counterparts.223 Enrico Berlinguer, general secretary of Italy's major Communist party, was widely considered the father of Eurocommunism.224
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#libertarian-marxist-communism","title":"Libertarian Marxist communism","text":"Libertarian Marxism is a broad range of economic and political philosophies that emphasize the anti-authoritarian aspects of Marxism. Early currents of libertarian Marxism, known as left communism,225 emerged in opposition to Marxism\u2013Leninism226 and its derivatives such as Stalinism and Maoism, as well as Trotskyism.227 Libertarian Marxism is also critical of reformist positions such as those held by social democrats.228 Libertarian Marxist currents often draw from Marx and Engels' later works, specifically the Grundrisse and The Civil War in France,229 emphasizing the Marxist belief in the ability of the working class to forge its own destiny without the need for a revolutionary party or state to mediate or aid its liberation.230 Along with anarchism, libertarian Marxism is one of the main derivatives of libertarian socialism.231
Aside from left communism, libertarian Marxism includes such currents as autonomism, communization, council communism, De Leonism, the Johnson\u2013Forest Tendency, Lettrism, Luxemburgism Situationism, Socialisme ou Barbarie, Solidarity, the World Socialist Movement, and workerism, as well as parts of Freudo-Marxism, and the New Left.232 Moreover, libertarian Marxism has often had a strong influence on both post-left and social anarchists. Notable theorists of libertarian Marxism have included Antonie Pannekoek, Raya Dunayevskaya, Cornelius Castoriadis, Maurice Brinton, Daniel Gu\u00e9rin, and Yanis Varoufakis,233 the latter of whom claims that Marx himself was a libertarian Marxist.234
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#council-communism","title":"Council communism","text":"Rosa Luxemburg
Council communism is a movement that originated from Germany and the Netherlands in the 1920s,[^footnotejohnsonwalkergray2014313%e2%80%93314pannekoek,antonie(1873%e2%80%931960)-284] whose primary organization was the Communist Workers Party of Germany. It continues today as a theoretical and activist position within both libertarian Marxism and libertarian socialism.235 The core principle of council communism is that the government and the economy should be managed by workers' councils, which are composed of delegates elected at workplaces and recallable at any moment. Council communists oppose the perceived authoritarian and undemocratic nature of central planning and of state socialism, labelled state capitalism, and the idea of a revolutionary party,236237 since council communists believe that a revolution led by a party would necessarily produce a party dictatorship. Council communists support a workers' democracy, produced through a federation of workers' councils.
In contrast to those of social democracy and Leninist communism, the central argument of council communism is that democratic workers' councils arising in the factories and municipalities are the natural forms of working-class organizations and governmental power.238239 This view is opposed to both the reformist240 and the Leninist communist ideologies,236 which respectively stress parliamentary and institutional government by applying social reforms on the one hand, and vanguard parties and participative democratic centralism on the other.240236
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#left-communism","title":"Left communism","text":"Left communism is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas and practices espoused, particularly following the series of revolutions that brought World War I to an end by Bolsheviks and social democrats.241 Left communists assert positions which they regard as more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views of Marxism\u2013Leninism espoused by the Communist International after its first congress (March 1919) and during its second congress (July\u2013August 1920).226242243
Left communists represent a range of political movements distinct from Marxist\u2013Leninists, whom they largely view as merely the left-wing of capital, from anarcho-communists, some of whom they consider to be internationalist socialists, and from various other revolutionary socialist tendencies, such as De Leonists, whom they tend to see as being internationalist socialists only in limited instances.244 Bordigism is a Leninist left-communist current named after Amadeo Bordiga, who has been described as being \"more Leninist than Lenin\", and considered himself to be a Leninist.245
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#other-types-of-communism","title":"Other types of communism","text":""},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#anarcho-communism","title":"Anarcho-communism","text":"Peter Kropotkin, main theorist of anarcho-communism
Anarcho-communism is a libertarian theory of anarchism and communism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property, and capitalism in favor of common ownership of the means of production;246247 direct democracy; and a horizontal network of voluntary associations and workers' councils with production and consumption based on the guiding principle, \"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need\".248249 Anarcho-communism differs from Marxism in that it rejects its view about the need for a state socialism phase prior to establishing communism. Peter Kropotkin, the main theorist of anarcho-communism, stated that a revolutionary society should \"transform itself immediately into a communist society\", that it should go immediately into what Marx had regarded as the \"more advanced, completed, phase of communism\".250 In this way, it tries to avoid the reappearance of class divisions and the need for a state to be in control.250
Some forms of anarcho-communism, such as insurrectionary anarchism, are egoist and strongly influenced by radical individualism,251252253 believing that anarchist communism does not require a communitarian nature at all. Most anarcho-communists view anarchist communism as a way of reconciling the opposition between the individual and society.254255256
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#christian-communism","title":"Christian communism","text":"Christian communism is a theological and political theory based upon the view that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support religious communism as the ideal social system.[^footnotelansford200724%e2%80%9325-56] Although there is no universal agreement on the exact dates when communistic ideas and practices in Christianity began, many Christian communists state that evidence from the Bible suggests that the first Christians, including the Apostles in the New Testament, established their own small communist society in the years following Jesus' death and resurrection.257
Many advocates of Christian communism state that it was taught by Jesus and practiced by the apostles themselves,258 an argument that historians and others, including anthropologist Roman A. Montero,259 scholars like Ernest Renan,260261 and theologians like Charles Ellicott and Donald Guthrie,262263 generally agree with.[^footnotelansford200724%e2%80%9325-56]264 Christian communism enjoys some support in Russia. Russian musician Yegor Letov was an outspoken Christian communist, and in a 1995 interview he was quoted as saying: \"Communism is the Kingdom of God on Earth.\"265
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#analysis","title":"Analysis","text":""},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#reception","title":"Reception","text":"Emily Morris from University College London wrote that because Karl Marx's writings have inspired many movements, including the Russian Revolution of 1917, communism is \"commonly confused with the political and economic system that developed in the Soviet Union\" after the revolution.38266 Morris also wrote that Soviet-style communism \"did not 'work'\" due to \"an over-centralised, oppressive, bureaucratic and rigid economic and political system.\"38 Historian Andrzej Paczkowski summarized communism as \"an ideology that seemed clearly the opposite, that was based on the secular desire of humanity to achieve equality and social justice, and that promised a great leap forward into freedom.\"[^footnotepaczkowski200132%e2%80%9333-63] In contrast, Austrian-American economist Ludwig von Mises argued that by abolishing free markets, communist officials would not have the price system necessary to guide their planned production.267
Anti-communism developed as soon as communism became a conscious political movement in the 19th century, and anti-communist mass killings have been reported against alleged communists, or their alleged supporters, which were committed by anti-communists and political organizations or governments opposed to communism. The communist movement has faced opposition since it was founded and the opposition to it has often been organized and violent. Many of these anti-communist mass killing campaigns, primarily during the Cold War,268269 were supported by the United States and its Western Bloc allies,270271 including those who were formally part of the Non-Aligned Movement, such as the Indonesian mass killings of 1965\u201366, the Guatemalan genocide and Operation Condor in South America.272273274
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#excess-mortality-in-communist-states","title":"Excess mortality in Communist states","text":"Many authors have written about excess deaths under Communist states and mortality rates,32 such as excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.33 Some authors posit that there is a Communist death toll, whose death estimates vary widely, depending on the definitions of the deaths that are included in them, ranging from lows of 10\u201320 million to highs over 100 million. The higher estimates have been criticized by several scholars as ideologically motivated and inflated; they are also criticized for being inaccurate due to incomplete data, inflated by counting any excess death, making an unwarranted link to communism, and the grouping and body-counting itself. Higher estimates account for actions that Communist governments committed against civilians, including executions, human-made famines, and deaths that occurred during, or resulted from, imprisonment, and forced deportations and labor. Higher estimates are criticized for being based on sparse and incomplete data when significant errors are inevitable, and for being skewed to higher possible values.275 Others have argued that, while certain estimates may not be accurate, \"quibbling about numbers is unseemly. What matters is that many, many people were killed by communist regimes.\"31 Historian Mark Bradley wrote that while the exact numbers have been in dispute, the order of magnitude is not.[^footnotebradley2017151%e2%80%93153-325]
There is no consensus among genocide scholars and scholars of Communism about whether some or all the events constituted a genocide or mass killing.276 Among genocide scholars, there is no consensus on a common terminology,277 and the events have been variously referred to as excess mortality or mass deaths; other terms used to define some of such killings include classicide, crimes against humanity, democide, genocide, politicide, holocaust, mass killing, and repression.278279 These scholars state that most Communist states did not engage in mass killings;280281 Benjamin Valentino proposes the category of Communist mass killing, alongside colonial, counter-guerrilla, and ethnic mass killing, as a subtype of dispossessive mass killing to distinguish it from coercive mass killing.282 Genocide scholars do not consider ideology,283 or regime-type, as an important factor that explains mass killings.284 Some authors, such as John Gray,285 Daniel Goldhagen,286 and Richard Pipes,287 consider the ideology of communism to be a significant causative factor in mass killings. Some connect killings in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao Zedong's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia on the basis that Stalin influenced Mao, who influenced Pol Pot; in all cases, scholars say killings were carried out as part of a policy of an unbalanced modernization process of rapid industrialization.278288 Daniel Goldhagen argues that 20th century communist regimes \"have killed more people than any other regime type.\"289
Some authors and politicians, such as George G. Watson, allege that genocide was dictated in otherwise forgotten works of Karl Marx.290291 Many commentators on the political right point to the mass deaths under Communist states, claiming them as an indictment of communism.292293294 Opponents of this view argue that these killings were aberrations caused by specific authoritarian regimes, and not caused by communism itself, and point to mass deaths in wars and famines that they argue were caused by colonialism, capitalism, and anti-communism as a counterpoint to those killings.295296 According to Dovid Katz and other historians, a historical revisionist view of the double genocide theory,297298 equating mass deaths under Communist states with the Holocaust, is popular in Eastern European countries and the Baltic states, and their approaches of history have been incorporated in the European Union agenda,299 among them the Prague Declaration in June 2008 and the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, which was proclaimed by the European Parliament in August 2008 and endorsed by the OSCE in Europe in July 2009. Some scholars in Western Europe have rejected the comparison of the two regimes and the equation of their crimes.299
"},{"location":"archive/communism-wiki/#memory-and-legacy","title":"Memory and legacy","text":"Criticism of communism can be divided into two broad categories, namely that criticism of Communist party rule that concerns with the practical aspects of 20th-century Communist states,300 and criticism of Marxism and communism generally that concerns its principles and theory.301 Public memory of 20th-century Communist states has been described as a battleground between the communist-sympathetic or anti-anti-communist political left and the anti-communism of the political right.31 Critics of communism on the political right point to the excess deaths under Communist states as an indictment of communism as an ideology.292293294 Defenders of communism on the political left say that the deaths were caused by specific authoritarian regimes and not communism as an ideology, while also pointing to anti-communist mass killings and deaths in wars that they argue were caused by capitalism and anti-communism as a counterpoint to the deaths under Communist states.26931293
According to Hungarian sociologist and politician Andr\u00e1s Boz\u00f3ki, positive aspects of communist countries included support for social mobility and equality, the elimination of illiteracy, urbanization, more accessible healthcare and housing, regional mobility with public transportation, the elimination of semi-feudal hierarchies, more women entering the labor market, and free access to higher education. Negative aspects of communist countries, on the other hand according to Boz\u00f3ki included the suppression of freedom, the loss of trust in civil society; a culture of fear and corruption; reduced international travel; dependency on the party and state; Central Europe becoming a satellite of the Soviet Union; the creation of closed societies, leading to xenophobia, racism, prejudice, cynicism and pessimism; women only being emancipated in the workforce; the oppression of national identity; and relativist ethical societal standards.302
Memory studies have been done on how the events are memorized.303 According to Kristen R. Ghodsee and Scott Sehon, on the political left, there are \"those with some sympathy for socialist ideals and the popular opinion of hundreds of millions of Russian and east European citizens nostalgic for their state socialist pasts.\", while on the political right, there are \"the committed anti-totalitarians, both east and west, insisting that all experiments with Marxism will always and inevitably end with the gulag.\"31 The \"victims of Communism\" concept,304 has become accepted scholarship, as part of the double genocide theory, in Eastern Europe and among anti-communists in general;305 it is rejected by some Western European299 and other scholars, especially when it is used to equate Communism and Nazism, which is seen by scholars as a long-discredited perspective.306 The narrative posits that famines and mass deaths by Communist states can be attributed to a single cause and that communism, as \"the deadliest ideology in history\", or in the words of Jonathan Rauch as \"the deadliest fantasy in human history\",307 represents the greatest threat to humanity.293 Proponents posit an alleged link between communism, left-wing politics, and socialism with genocide, mass killing, and totalitarianism.308
Some authors, as St\u00e9phane Courtois, propose a theory of equivalence between class and racial genocide.[^footnotejaffrelots%c3%a9melin200937-373] It is supported by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, with 100 million being the most common estimate used from The Black Book of Communism despite some of the authors of the book distancing themselves from the estimates made by Stephen Courtois.31 Various museums and monuments have been constructed in remembrance of the victims of Communism, with support of the European Union and various governments in Canada, Eastern Europe, and the United States.34[page\u00a0needed]35[page\u00a0needed] Works such as The Black Book of Communism and Bloodlands legitimized debates on the comparison of Nazism and Stalinism,[^footnotejaffrelots%c3%a9melin200937-373]309 and by extension communism, and the former work in particular was important in the criminalization of communism.34[page\u00a0needed]35[page\u00a0needed] According to Freedom House, Communism is \"considered one of the two great totalitarian movements of the 20th century\", the other being Nazism, but added that \"there is an important difference in how the world has treated these two execrable phenomena.\":310
The failure of Communist governments to live up to the ideal of a communist society, their general trend towards increasing authoritarianism, their bureaucracy, and the inherent inefficiencies in their economies have been linked to the decline of communism in the late 20th century.1[^footnotelansford20079%e2%80%9324,_36%e2%80%9344-49]28 Walter Scheidel stated that despite wide-reaching government actions, Communist states failed to achieve long-term economic, social, and political success.311 The experience of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the North Korean famine, and alleged economic underperformance when compared to developed free market systems are cited as examples of Communist states failing to build a successful state while relying entirely on what they view as orthodox Marxism.312313[page\u00a0needed] Despite those shortcomings, Philipp Ther stated that there was a general increase in the standard of living throughout Eastern Bloc countries as the result of modernization programs under Communist governments.314
Most experts agree there was a\u00a0significant increase in mortality rates following the years 1989 and 1991, including a 2014 World Health Organization report which concluded that the \"health of people in the former Soviet countries deteriorated dramatically after the collapse of the Soviet Union.\"315 Post-Communist Russia during the IMF-backed economic reforms of Boris Yeltsin experienced surging economic inequality and poverty as unemployment reached double digits by the early to mid 1990s.316317 By contrast, the Central European states of the former Eastern Bloc\u2013Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia\u2013showed healthy increases in life expectancy from the 1990s onward, compared to nearly thirty years of stagnation under Communism.318 Bulgaria and Romania followed this trend after the introduction of more serious economic reforms in the late 1990s.319320 The economies of Eastern Bloc countries had previously experienced stagnation in the 1980s under Communism.321 A common expression throughout Eastern Europe after 1989 was \"everything they told us about communism was a lie, but everything they told us about capitalism was true.\"322 The right-libertarian think tank Cato Institute has stated that the analyses done of post-communist countries in the 1990s were \"premature\" and \"that early and rapid reformers by far outperformed gradual reformers\" on GDP per capita, the United Nations Human Development Index and political freedom, in addition to developing better institutions. The institute also stated that the process of privatization in Russia was \"deeply flawed\" due to Russia's reforms being \"far less rapid\" than those of Central Europe and the Baltic states.323
The average post-Communist country had returned to 1989 levels of per-capita GDP by 2005.324 However, Branko Milanovi\u0107 wrote in 2015 that following the end of the Cold War, many of those countries' economies declined to such an extent during the transition to capitalism that they have yet to return to the point they were prior to the collapse of communism.325 Several scholars state that the negative economic developments in post-Communist countries after the fall of Communism led to increased nationalist sentiment and nostalgia for the Communist era.31326327 In 2011, The Guardian published an analysis of the former Soviet countries twenty years after the fall of the USSR. They found that \"GDP fell as much as 50 percent in the 1990s in some republics... as capital flight, industrial collapse, hyperinflation and tax avoidance took their toll\", but that there was a rebound in the 2000s, and by 2010 \"some economies were five times as big as they were in 1991.\" Life expectancy has grown since 1991 in some of the countries, but fallen in others; likewise, some held free and fair elections, while others remained authoritarian.328 By 2019, the majority of people in most Eastern European countries approved of the shift to multiparty democracy and a market economy, with approval being highest among residents of Poland and residents in the territory of what was once East Germany, and disapproval being the highest among residents of Russia and Ukraine. In addition, 61 percent said that standards of living were now higher than they had been under Communism, while only 31 percent said that they were worse, with the remaining 8 percent saying that they did not know or that standards of living had not changed.329
According to Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker in their book Communism's Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes, citizens of post-Communist countries are less supportive of democracy and more supportive of government-provided social welfare. They also found that those who lived under Communist rule were more likely to be left-authoritarian (referencing the right-wing authoritarian personality) than citizens of other countries. Those who are left-authoritarian in this sense more often tend to be older generations that lived under Communism. In contrast, younger post-Communist generations continue to be anti-democratic but are not as left-wing ideologically, which in the words of Pop-Eleches and Tucker \"might help explain the growing popularity of right-wing populists in the region.\"330
Conservatives, liberals, and social democrats generally view 20th-century Communist states as unqualified failures. Political theorist and professor Jodi Dean argues that this limits the scope of discussion around political alternatives to capitalism and neoliberalism. Dean argues that, when people think of capitalism, they do not consider what are its worst results (climate change, economic inequality, hyperinflation, the Great Depression, the Great Recession, the robber barons, and unemployment) because the history of capitalism is viewed as dynamic and nuanced; the history of communism is not considered dynamic or nuanced, and there is a fixed historical narrative of communism that emphasizes authoritarianism, the gulag, starvation, and violence.331332 University of Cambridge historian Gary Gerstle posits that the collapse of communism \"opened the entire world to capitalist penetration\" and \"shrank the imaginative and ideological space in which opposition to capitalist thought and practices might incubate.\"333 Ghodsee,334 along with Gerstle and Walter Scheidel, suggest that the rise and fall of communism had a significant impact on the development and decline of labor movements and social welfare states in the United States and other Western societies. Gerstle argues that organized labor in the United States was strongest when the threat of communism reached its peak, and the decline of both organized labor and the welfare state coincided with the collapse of communism. Both Gerstle and Scheidel posit that as economic elites in the West became more fearful of possible communist revolutions in their own societies, especially as the tyranny and violence associated with communist governments became more apparent, the more willing they were to compromise with the working class, and much less so once the threat waned.335336
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\"Communism\". World Book Encyclopedia. Vol.\u00a04. Chicago: World Book. 2008. p.\u00a0890. ISBN 978-0-7166-0108-1.\u00a0\u21a9
Ely, Richard T (1883). French and German socialism in modern times. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp.\u00a035\u201336. OCLC 456632. All communists without exception propose that the people as a whole, or some particular division of the people, as a village or commune, should own all the means of production\u00a0\u2013 land, houses, factories, railroads, canals, etc.; that production should be carried on in common; and that officers, selected in one way or another, should distribute among the inhabitants the fruits of their labor.\u00a0\u21a9
Bukharin, Nikolai; Preobrazhensky, Yevgeni (1922) [1920]. \"Distribution in the communist system\" (PDF). The ABC of Communism. Translated by Paul, Cedar; Paul, Eden. London, England: Communist Party of Great Britain. pp.\u00a072\u201373, \u00a7 20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2021 \u2013 via Marxists Internet Archive.\u00a0\u21a9
Steele (1992), p.\u00a043: \"One widespread distinction was that socialism socialised production only while communism socialised production and consumption.\"\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Engels, Friedrich (2005) [1847]. \"Section 18: What will be the course of this revolution?\". The Principles of Communism. Translated by Sweezy, Paul. Archived from the original on 9 February 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2021 \u2013 via Marxists Internet Archive. Finally, when all capital, all production, all exchange have been brought together in the hands of the nation, private property will disappear of its own accord, money will become superfluous, and production will so expand and man so change that society will be able to slough off whatever of its old economic habits may remain.\u00a0\u21a9
Bukharin, Nikolai; Preobrazhensky, Yevgeni (1922) [1920]. \"Administration in the communist system\" (PDF). The ABC of Communism. Translated by Paul, Cedar; Paul, Eden. London, England: Communist Party of Great Britain. pp.\u00a073\u201375, \u00a7 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 18 August 2021 \u2013 via Marxists Internet Archive.\u00a0\u21a9
Kurian, George (2011). \"Withering Away of the State\". In Kurian, George (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press. doi:10.4135/9781608712434. ISBN 978-1-933116-44-0. Retrieved 3 January 2016 \u2013 via SAGE Publishing.\u00a0\u21a9
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George & Wilcox 1996, p.\u00a095 \"The far left in America consists principally of people who believe in some form of Marxism-Leninism, i.e., some form of Communism. A small minority of extreme leftists adhere to \"pure\" Marxism or collectivist anarchism. Most far leftists scorn reforms (except as a short-term tactic), and instead aim for the complete overthrow of the capitalist system including the U.S. government.\"\u00a0\u21a9
Communism is generally considered to be among the more radical ideologies of the political left.338339 Unlike far-right politics, for which there is general consensus among scholars on what it entails and its grouping (e.g. various academic handbooks studies), far-left politics have been difficult to characterize, particularly where they begin on the political spectrum, other than the general consensus of being to the left of a standard political left, and because many of their positions are not extreme,340 or because far-left and hard left are considered to be pejoratives that imply they are marginal.341 In regards to communism and communist parties and movements, some scholars narrow the far left to their left, while others include them by broadening it to be the left of mainstream socialist, social-democratic, and labourist parties.342 In general, they agree that there are various subgroupings within far-left politics, such as the radical left and the extreme left.343344 \u21a9
Engels, Friedrich; Marx, Karl (1969) [1848]. \"Bourgeois and Proletarians\". The Communist Manifesto. Marx/Engels Selected Works. Vol.\u00a01. Translated by Moore, Samuel. Moscow: Progress Publishers. pp.\u00a098\u2013137. Archived from the original on 14 February 2025. Retrieved 1 March 2022 \u2013 via Marxists Internet Archive.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Earlier forms of communism (utopian socialism and some earlier forms of religious communism), shared support for a classless society and common ownership but did not necessarily advocate revolutionary politics or engage in scientific analysis; that was done by Marxist communism, which has defined mainstream, modern communism, and has influenced all modern forms of communism. Such communisms, especially new religious or utopian forms of communism, may share the Marxist analysis, while favoring evolutionary politics, localism, or reformism. By the 20th century, communism has been associated with revolutionary socialism.345 \u21a9
Gasper, Phillip (2005). The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document. Haymarket Books. p.\u00a023. ISBN 978-1-931859-25-7. Marx and Engels never speculated on the detailed organization of a future socialist or communist society. The key task for them was building a movement to overthrow capitalism. If and when that movement was successful, it would be up to the members of the new society to decide democratically how it was to be organized, in the concrete historical circumstances in which they found themselves.\u00a0\u21a9
Gregory, Paul R.; Stuart, Robert C. (2003). Comparing Economic Systems in the Twenty-First (7th\u00a0ed.). South-Western College Pub. p.\u00a0118. ISBN 0-618-26181-8. Under socialism, each individual would be expected to contribute according to capability, and rewards would be distributed in proportion to that contribution. Subsequently, under communism, the basis of reward would be need.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
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Communism is capitalized by scholars when referring to Communist party-ruling states and governments, which are considered to be proper nouns as a result.346 Following scholar Joel Kovel, sociologist Sara Diamond wrote: \"I use uppercase 'C' Communism to refer to actually existing governments and movements and lowercase 'c' communism to refer to the varied movements and political currents organized around the ideal of a classless society.\"347 The Black Book of Communism also adopted such distinction, stating that communism exists since millennia, while Communism (used in reference to Leninist and Marxist\u2013Leninist communism as applied by Communist states in the 20th century) only began in 1917.348 Alan M. Wald wrote: \"In order to tackle complex and often misunderstood political-literary relationships, I have adopted methods of capitalization in this book that may deviate from editorial norms practiced at certain journals and publishing houses. In particular, I capitalize 'Communist' and 'Communism' when referring to official parties of the Third International, but not when pertaining to other adherents of Bolshevism or revolutionary Marxism (which encompasses small-'c' communists such as Trotskyists, Bukharinists, council communists, and so forth).\"349 In 1994, Communist Party USA activist Irwin Silber wrote: \"When capitalized, the International Communist Movement refers to the formal organizational structure of the pro-Soviet Communist Parties. In lower case, the international communist movement is a more generic term referring to the general movement for communism.\"350 \u21a9
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While it refers to its leading ideology as Juche, which is portrayed as a development of Marxism\u2013Leninism, the status of North Korea remains disputed. Marxism\u2013Leninism was superseded by Juche in the 1970s and was made official in 1992 and 2009, when constitutional references to Marxism\u2013Leninism were dropped and replaced with Juche.351 In 2009, the constitution was quietly amended so that it removed all Marxist\u2013Leninist references present in the first draft, and also dropped all references to communism.352 Juche has been described by Michael Seth as a version of Korean ultranationalism,353 which eventually developed after losing its original Marxist\u2013Leninist elements.354 According to North Korea: A Country Study by Robert L. Worden, Marxism\u2013Leninism was abandoned immediately after the start of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union and has been totally replaced by Juche since at least 1974.355 Daniel Schwekendiek wrote that what made North Korean Marxism\u2013Leninism distinct from that of China and the Soviet Union was that it incorporated national feelings and macro-historical elements in the socialist ideology, opting for its \"own style of socialism\". The major Korean elements are the emphasis on traditional Confucianism and the memory of the traumatic experience of Korea under Japanese rule, as well as a focus on autobiographical features of Kim Il Sung as a guerrilla hero.356 \u21a9
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Scholars generally write about individual events, and make estimates of any deaths like any other historical event, favouring background context and country specificities over generalizations, ideology, and Communist grouping as done by other scholars; some events are categorized by a Communist state's particular era, such as Stalinist repression,357358 rather than a connection to all Communist states, which came to cover one-third the world's population by 1985.[^footnotelansford200724%e2%80%9325-56] Historians like Robert Conquest and J. Arch Getty mainly wrote and focused on the Stalin era; they wrote about people who died in the Gulag or as a result of Stalinist repression, and discussed estimates about those specific events, as part of the excess mortality debate in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, without connecting them to communism as a whole. They have vigorously debated, including on the Holodomor genocide question,[^getty_7%e2%80%938-57]359 but the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Revolutions of 1989, and the release of state archives put some of the heat out of the debate.[^davies_&_harris_2005,_pp._3%e2%80%935-59] Some historians, among them Michael Ellman, have questioned \"the very category 'victims of Stalinism'\" as \"a matter of political judgement\" because mass deaths from famines are not a \"uniquely Stalinist evil\" and were widespread throughout the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.360 There exists very little literature that compares excess deaths under \"the Big Three\" of Stalin's Soviet Union, Mao Zedong's China, and Pol Pot's Cambodia, and that which does exist mainly enumerates the events rather than explain their ideological reasons. One such example is Crimes Against Humanity Under Communist Regimes \u2013 Research Review by Klas-G\u00f6ran Karlsson and Michael Schoenhals, a review study summarizing what others have stated about it, mentioning some authors who saw the origins of the killings in Karl Marx's writings; the geographical scope is \"the Big Three\", and the authors state that killings were carried out as part of an unbalanced modernizing policy of rapid industrialization, asking \"what marked the beginning of the unbalanced Russian modernisation process that was to have such terrible consequences?\"278 Notable scholarly exceptions are historian St\u00e9phane Courtois and political scientist Rudolph Rummel, who have attempted a connection between all Communist states. Rummel's analysis was done within the framework of his proposed concept of democide, which includes any direct and indirect deaths by government, and did not limit himself to Communist states, which were categorized within the framework of totalitarianism alongside other regime-types. Rummel's estimates are on the high end of the spectrum, have been criticized and scrutinized, and are rejected by most scholars. Courtois' attempts, as in the introduction to The Black Book of Communism, which have been described by some critical observers as a crudely anti-communist and antisemitic work, are controversial; many reviewers of the book, including scholars, criticized such attempts of lumping all Communist states and different sociological movements together as part of a Communist death toll totalling more than 94 million.275 Reviewers also distinguished the introduction from the book proper, which was better received and only presented a number of chapters on single-country studies, with no cross-cultural comparison, or discussion of mass killings; historian Andrzej Paczkowski wrote that only Courtois made the comparison between communism and Nazism, while the other sections of the book \"are, in effect, narrowly focused monographs, which do not pretend to offer overarching explanations\", and stated that the book is not \"about communism as an ideology or even about communism as a state-building phenomenon.\"[^footnotepaczkowski200132%e2%80%9333-63] More positive reviews found most of the criticism to be fair or warranted, with political scientist Stanley Hoffmann stating that \"Courtois would have been far more effective if he had shown more restraint\",361 and Paczkowski stating that it has had two positive effects, among them stirring a debate about the implementation of totalitarian ideologies and \"an exhaustive balance sheet about one aspect of the worldwide phenomenon of communism.\"362 A Soviet and communist studies example is Steven Rosefielde's Red Holocaust, which is controversial due to Holocaust trivialization; nonetheless, Rosefielde's work mainly focused on \"the Big Three\" (Stalin era, Mao era, and the Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia), plus Kim Il Sung's North Korea and Ho Chi Minh's Vietnam. Rosefielde's main point is that Communism in general, although he focuses mostly on Stalinism, is less genocidal and that is a key distinction from Nazism, and did not make a connection between all Communist states or communism as an ideology. Rosefielde wrote that \"the conditions for the Red Holocaust were rooted in Stalin's, Kim's, Mao's, Ho's and Pol Pot's siege-mobilized terror-command economic systems, not in Marx's utopian vision or other pragmatic communist transition mechanisms. Terror-command was chosen among other reasons because of legitimate fears about the long-term viability of terror-free command, and the ideological risks of market communism.\"363 \u21a9\u21a9
Some authors, such as St\u00e9phane Courtois in The Black Book of Communism, stated that Communism killed more than Nazism and thus was worse; several scholars have criticized this view.364 After assessing twenty years of historical research in Eastern European archives, lower estimates by the \"revisionist school\" of historians have been vindicated,365 despite the popular press continuing to use higher estimates and containing serious errors.366 Historians such as Timothy D. Snyder stated it is taken for granted that Stalin killed more civilians than Hitler; for most scholars, excess mortality under Stalin was about 6 million, which rise to 9 million if foreseeable deaths arising from policies are taken into account. This estimate is less than those killed by Nazis, who killed more noncombatants than the Soviets did.367 \u21a9\u21a9
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Harff (1996); Hiroaki (2001); Paczkowski (2001); Weiner (2002); Duli\u0107 (2004); Harff (2017) \u21a9\u21a9
Most genocide scholars do not lump Communist states together, and do not treat genocidical events as a separate subjects, or by regime-type, and compare them to genocidical events which happened under vastly different regimes. Examples include Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts,373 The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing,374 Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide,375 Resisting Genocide: The Multiple Forms of Rescue,376 and Final Solutions.377 Several of them are limited to the geographical locations of \"the Big Three\", or mainly the Cambodian genocide, whose culprit, the Khmer Rouge regime, was described by genocide scholar Helen Fein as following a xenophobic ideology bearing a stronger resemblance to \"an almost forgotten phenomenon of national socialism\", or fascism, rather than communism,378 while historian Ben Kiernan described it as \"more racist and generically totalitarian than Marxist or specifically Communist\",379 or do not discuss Communist states, other than passing mentions. Such work is mainly done in an attempt to prevent genocides but has been described by scholars as a failure.277 \u21a9
Weiss-Wendt, Anton (2008). \"Problems in Comparative Genocide Scholarship\". In Stone, Dan (ed.). The Historiography of Genocide. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp.\u00a042\u201370. doi:10.1057/9780230297784_3. ISBN 978-0-230-29778-4. There is barely any other field of study that enjoys so little consensus on defining principles such as definition of genocide, typology, application of a comparative method, and timeframe. Considering that scholars have always put stress on prevention of genocide, comparative genocide studies have been a failure. Paradoxically, nobody has attempted so far to assess the field of comparative genocide studies as a whole. This is one of the reasons why those who define themselves as genocide scholars have not been able to detect the situation of crisis.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Karlsson & Schoenhals 2008.\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9\u21a9\u21a9\u21a9\u21a9
Genocide scholar Barbara Harff maintains a global database on mass killings, which is intended mostly for statistical analysis of mass killings in attempt to identify the best predictors for their onset and data is not necessarily the most accurate for a given country, since some sources are general genocide scholars and not experts on local history;380 it includes anticommunist mass killings, such as the Indonesian mass killings of 1965\u20131966 (genocide and politicide), and some events which happened under Communist states, such as the 1959 Tibetan uprising (genocide and politicide), the Cambodian genocide (genocide and politicide), and the Cultural Revolution (politicide), but no comparative analysis or communist link is drawn, other than the events just happened to take place in some Communist states in Eastern Asia. The Harff database is the most frequently used by genocide scholars.283 Rudolph Rummel operated a similar database, but it was not limited to Communist states, it is mainly for statistical analysis, and in a comparative analysis has been criticized by other scholars,381 over that of Harff,380 for his estimates and statistical methodology, which showed some flaws.[^footnoteduli%c4%872004-338]\u00a0\u21a9
Valentino, Benjamin (2005). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p.\u00a091. ISBN 978-0-801-47273-2. Communism has a bloody record, but most regimes that have described themselves as communist or have been described as such by others have not engaged in mass killing.\u00a0\u21a9
In their criticism of The Black Book of Communism, which popularized the topic, several scholars have questioned, in the words of Alexander Dallin, \"[w]hether all these cases, from Hungary to Afghanistan, have a single essence and thus deserve to be lumped together\u00a0\u2013 just because they are labeled Marxist or communist\u00a0\u2013 is a question the authors scarcely discuss.\"52 In particular, historians Jens Mecklenburg and Wolfgang Wippermann stated that a connection between the events in Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union and Pol Pot's Cambodia are far from evident and that Pol Pot's study of Marxism in Paris is insufficient for connecting radical Soviet industrialism and the Khmer Rouge's murderous anti-urbanism under the same category.382 Historian Michael David-Fox criticized the figures as well as the idea to combine loosely connected events under a single category of Communist death toll, blaming St\u00e9phane Courtois for their manipulation and deliberate inflation which are presented to advocate the idea that communism was a greater evil than Nazism. David-Fox criticized the idea to connect the deaths with some \"generic Communism\" concept, defined down to the common denominator of party movements founded by intellectuals.51 A similar criticism was made by Le Monde.383 Allegation of a communist or red Holocaust is not popular among scholars in Germany or internationally,384 and is considered a form of softcore antisemitism and Holocaust trivialization.385 \u21a9
Valentino, Benjamin (2005). Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the Twentieth Century. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p.\u00a066. ISBN 978-0-801-47273-2. I contend mass killing occurs when powerful groups come to believe it is the best available means to accomplish certain radical goals, counter specific types of threats, or solve difficult military problem.\u00a0\u21a9
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The Cambodia case is particular because it is different from the emphasis Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China gave to heavy industry. The goal of Khmer Rouge's leaders goal was to introduce communism in an extremely short period of time through collectivization of agriculture in the effort to remove social differences and inequalities between rural and urban areas.278 As there was not much industry in Cambodia at that time, Pol Pot's strategy to accomplish this was to increase agricultural production in order to obtain money for rapid industrialization.386 In analyzing the Khmer Rouge regime, scholars place it within the historical context. The Khmer Rouge came to power through the Cambodian Civil War (where unparalleled atrocities were executed on both sides) and Operation Menu, resulting in the dropping of more than half a million tonnes of bombs in the country during the civil-war period; this was mainly directed to Communist Vietnam but it gave the Khmer Rouge a justification to eliminate the pro-Vietnamese faction and other communists.278 The Cambodian genocide, which is described by many scholars as a genocide and by others, such as Manus Midlarsky, as a politicide,284 was stopped by Communist Vietnam, and there have been allegations of United States support for the Khmer Rouge. South East Asian communism was deeply divided, as China supported the Khmer Rouge, while the Soviet Union and Vietnam opposed it. The United States supported Lon Nol, who seized power in the 1970 Cambodian coup d'\u00e9tat, and research has shown that everything in Cambodia was seen as a legitimate target by the United States, whose verdict of its main leaders at that time (Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger) has been harsh, and bombs were gradually dropped on increasingly densely populated areas.278 \u21a9
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Mrozick, Agnieszka (2019). Kuligowski, Piotr; Moll, \u0141ukasz; Szadkowski, Krystian (eds.). \"Anti-Communism: It's High Time to Diagnose and Counteract\". Praktyka Teoretyczna\u00a0[pl]. 1 (31, Anti-Communisms: Discourses of Exclusion). Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144: 178\u2013184. Retrieved 26 December 2020 \u2013 via Central and Eastern European Online Library. First is the prevalence of a totalitarian paradigm, in which Nazism and Communism are equated as the most atrocious ideas and systems in human history (because communism, defined by Marx as a classless society with common means of production, has never been realised anywhere in the world, in further parts I will be putting this concept into inverted commas as an example of discursive practice). Significantly, while in the Western debate the more precise term 'Stalinism' is used \u2013 in 2008, on the 70th anniversary of the Ribbentrop\u2013Molotov Pact, the European Parliament established 23 August as the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism \u2013 hardly anyone in Poland is paying attention to niceties: 'communism' or the left, is perceived as totalitarian here. A homogenizing sequence of associations (the left is communism, communism is totalitarianism, ergo the left is totalitarian) and the ahistorical character of the concepts used (no matter if we talk about the USSR in the 1930s under Stalin, Maoist China from the period of the Cultural Revolution, or Poland under Gierek, 'communism' is murderous all the same) not only serves the denigration of the Polish People's Republic, expelling this period from Polish history, but also \u2013 or perhaps primarily \u2013 the deprecation of Marxism, leftist programs, and any hopes and beliefs in Marxism and leftist activity as a remedy for capitalist exploitation, social inequality, fascist violence on a racist and anti-Semitic basis, as well as homophobic and misogynist violence. The totalitarian paradigm not only equates fascism and socialism (in Poland and the countries of the former Eastern bloc stubbornly called 'communism' and pressed into the sphere of influence of the Soviet Union, which should additionally emphasize its foreignness), but in fact recognizes the latter as worse, more sinister (the Black Book of Communism (1997) is of help here as it estimates the number of victims of 'communism' at around 100 million; however, it is critically commented on by researchers on the subject, including historian Enzo Traverso in the book L'histoire comme champ de bataille (2011)). Thus, anti-communism not only delegitimises the left, including communists, and depreciates the contribution of the left to the breakdown of fascism in 1945, but also contributes to the rehabilitation of the latter, as we can see in recent cases in Europe and other places. (Quote at pp. 178\u2013179)\u00a0\u21a9
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Ghodsee & Orenstein 2021, p.\u00a078.\u00a0\u21a9
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Ghodsee (2018): \"Throughout much of the twentieth century, state socialism presented an existential challenge to the worst excesses of the free market. The threat posed by Marxist ideologies forced Western governments to expand social safety nets to protect workers from the unpredictable but inevitable booms and busts of the capitalist economy. After the Berlin Wall fell, many celebrated the triumph of the West, cosigning socialist ideas to the dustbin of history. But for all its faults, state socialism provided an important foil for capitalism. It was in response to a global discourse of social and economic rights\u00a0\u2013 a discourse that appealed not only to the progressive populations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America but also to many men and women in Western Europe and North America\u00a0\u2013 that politicians agreed to improve working conditions for wage laborers as well as create social programs for children, the poor, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled, mitigating exploitation and the growth of income inequality. Although there were important antecedents in the 1980s, once state socialism collapsed, capitalism shook off the constraints of market regulation and income redistribution. Without the looming threat of a rival superpower, the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and financial crises and reduce the vast inequality of economic outcomes between those at the top and bottom of the income distribution.\"\u00a0\u21a9
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movement by Indigenous people in North America to reclaim lands
Land back graffiti with anarchist symbology and an unrelated artist, 2020
Land Back, also referred to with hashtag #LandBack, is a decentralised campaign that emerged in the late 2010s among Indigenous Australians, Indigenous peoples in Canada, Native Americans in the United States, other indigenous peoples and allies who seek to reestablish Indigenous sovereignty, with political and economic control of their ancestral lands. Activists have also used the Land Back framework in Mexico, and scholars have applied it in New Zealand and Fiji. Land Back is part of a broader Indigenous movement for decolonization.
Land Back banner at a protest in Washington, D.C., 2024
Land Back aims to reestablish Indigenous political authority over territories that Indigenous tribes claim by treaty. Scholars from the Indigenous-run Yellowhead Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University describe it as a process of reclaiming Indigenous jurisdiction. The NDN Collective describes it as synonymous with decolonisation and dismantling white supremacy. Land Back advocates for Indigenous rights, preserves languages and traditions, and works toward food sovereignty, decent housing, and a clean environment.
In the United States, the contemporary Land Back Movement began as early as the 1960s, when the American Indian Party candidate for U.S. president ran on a platform of giving land back to Native Americans.
Land Back was introduced in 2018 by Arnell Tailfeathers, a member of the Blood Tribe, a nation within the Blackfoot Confederacy. It then quickly became a hashtag (#LandBack), and now appears in artwork, on clothes and in beadwork. These creations are often used to raise funds to support water protectors and land defenders who protest against oil pipelines in North America.
The Black Hills land claim and protests at Mount Rushmore during Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign were a catalyzing moment for the movement in the United States.
The NDN Collective describes the Land Back campaign as a metanarrative that ties together many different Indigenous organizations similar to the Black Lives Matter campaign. They say that the campaign enables decentralised Indigenous leadership and addresses structural racism faced by Indigenous people that is rooted in theft of their land.
Land Back promotes a return to communal land ownership of traditional and unceded Indigenous lands and rejects colonial concepts of real estate and private land ownership. Return of land is not only economic, but also implies the return of relationships and self-governance.
In some cases Land Back promotes a land tax that seeks to collect revenue on people who are of non-indigenous origins.
Other forms of Land Back involve indigenous communities managing National Parks or Federal Lands.
In some cases, land is directly returned to Indigenous people when private landowners, municipalities, or governments give the land back to Indigenous tribes. This may take the form of a simple transaction within the colonial real estate framework.
Indigenous-led projects may also use community land trusts to reserve lands for their group.
In 2020, electronic music group A Tribe Called Red produced a song \"Land Back\" on their album The Halluci Nation, to support the Wet\u02bcsuwet\u02bcen resistance camp and other Indigenous-led movements. In July 2020, activists from NDN Collective held a protest on a highway leading to Mount Rushmore, where Donald Trump was to give a campaign speech. The site, known to the Sioux in English as \"The Six Grandfathers,\" is on sacred, unceded land, subject to the Black Hills land claim. These protestors drafted the \"Land Back Manifesto\", which seeks \"the reclamation of everything stolen from the original Peoples\". Also in 2020, Haudenosaunee people from the Six Nations of the Grand River blockaded 1492 Land Back Lane to shut down a housing development on their unceded territory.
In 2021, Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Unangax) created a gigantic \"Indian Land\" sign \u2013 in letters reminiscent of southern California's Hollywood sign \u2013 at the entry for the Desert X festival. On July 4, 2021, in Rapid City, South Dakota, a city very close to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, four people were arrested after climbing a structure downtown and hanging an upside-down US flag emblazoned with the words \"Land Back\".
The Wiyot people have lived for thousands of years on Duluwat Island, in Humboldt Bay on California's northern coast. In 2004 the Eureka City Council transferred land back to the Wiyot tribe, to add to land the Wiyot had purchased. The council transferred another 60 acres (24\u00a0ha) in 2006.
The Mashpee Wampanoag have lived in Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island for thousands of years. In 2007, about 300 acres (1.2\u00a0km2) of Massachusetts land was put into trust as a reservation for the tribe. Since then, a legal battle has left the tribe's status\u2014and claim to the land\u2014in limbo.
In 2016 Dr. Mohan Singh Virick, a Punjabi Sikh doctor who served Indigenous people in Cape Breton for 50 years, donated 350 acres (140\u00a0ha) of land to Eskasoni First Nation. He also donated a building in Sydney to help house Eskasoni's growing population.
In October 2018, the city of Vancouver, British Columbia returned ancient burial site (the Great Marpole Midden) land back to the Musqueam people. The land is home to ancient remains of a Musqueam house site.
In 2019, the United Methodist Church gave 3 acres (1.2\u00a0ha) of historic land back to the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. The US government in 1819 had promised the tribe 148,000 acres (600\u00a0km2) of land in what is now Kansas City, Kansas. When 664 Wyandotte people arrived, the land had been given to someone else.
In July 2020, an organization of self-identified Esselen descendants purchased a 1,200-acre ranch (4.9\u00a0km2) near Big Sur, California, as part of a larger $4.5m deal. This acquisition, in historical Esselen lands, aims to protect old-growth forest and wildlife, and the Little Sur River.
Land on the Saanich Peninsula in British Columbia was returned to the Tsartlip First Nation in December 2020.
Management of the 18,800-acre (76\u00a0km2) National Bison Range was transferred from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service back to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in 2021.
In August 2022, the Red Cliff Chippewa in northern Wisconsin had 1,500 acres (6.1\u00a0km2) of land along the Lake Superior shoreline returned to them from the Bayfield County government. This came after the tribe signed a 2017 memorandum of understanding with the county, acknowledging the Red Cliff Chippewa's desire to see their reservation boundaries restored in full.
In October 2022, a 1-acre site was returned to the Tongva Taraxat Paxaavxa Conservancy by a private resident in Altadena, which marked the first time the Tongva had land in Los Angeles County in 200 years.
In 2024, the Government of British Columbia transferred the title of more than 200 islands off Canada's west coast to the Haida people, recognizing the nation's aboriginal land title throughout Haida Gwaii.
Republic of Lakotah proposal
The Land Back Campaign, NDN Collective
Okay so I want your help to create email buttons for all the listed pages.
The simplebutton system has a rest api we can use curl to call. Here is a example of that curl authentication and subsequent button creation:
bunker-admin@bunker-admin-ThinkCentre-M73:~/Change-Maker-V3.9.7-Free-Alberta-Production$ curl -X POST http://localhost:5001/api/auth/login -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"username\":\"admin\",\"password\":\"freeyoda134\"}' {\"token\":\"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjY3YjdhNmFhYzU0ZTY3NWNkYTNmZThhZCIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJpYXQiOjE3NDAzNDY4MTQsImV4cCI6MTc0MDQzMzIxNH0.-S_envi_xSSOd24QFrzOBPBxT1EtCUnqvi1wLspitkQ\"}bunker-admin@bunker-admin-ThinkCentre-M73:~/Change-Maker-V3.9.7-Free-Alberta-Production$ curl -X POST http://localhost:5001/api/buttons -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-auth-token: eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6IjY3YjdhNmFhYzU0ZTY3NWNkYTNmZThhZCIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoiYWRtaW4iLCJpYXQiOjE3NDAzNDY4MTQsImV4cCI6MTc0MDQzMzIxNH0.-S_envi_xSSOd24QFrzOBPBxT1EtCUnqvi1wLspitkQ\" -d '{\"name\":\"Test Button\",\"slug\":\"test-button\",\"subject\":\"Test Email\",\"body\":\"This is a test email\",\"to_email\":\"test@example.com\",\"button_text\":\"Click Me\",\"showEmailText\":true}' {\"name\":\"Test Button\",\"slug\":\"test-button\",\"subject\":\"Test Email\",\"body\":\"This is a test email\",\"to_email\":\"test@example.com\",\"button_text\":\"Click Me\",\"count\":0,\"showEmailText\":true,\"_id\":\"67bb95cfc54e675cda3fea0c\",\"__v\":0}bunker-admin@bunker-admin-ThinkCentre-M73:~/Change-Maker-V3.9.7-Free-Alberta-Production$
Here is example text for a button from one of the .md files:
Button Name: rest-williams
URL Slug: rest-williams
To Email: mha.minister@gov.ab.ca
Subject Line: Mental Health and Work-Life Balance in Alberta
Dear Minister Williams, As your constituent, I'm deeply concerned about mental health and burnout in our workforce. With many Albertans working 60+ hour weeks and struggling with work-life balance, we're facing a mental health crisis that needs immediate attention. Would you consider: - Expanding mental health support services - Implementing workplace mental health standards - Creating programs to address workplace burnout - Supporting initiatives for better work-life balance These issues affect our productivity, healthcare system, and community wellbeing. Could we discuss potential solutions? Thank you for your consideration,
Display Email Text Above Button: True
Work through each page and create email buttons where the email text is never over 1000 characters for each of these pages in the above style.
From the source material .md file, we also want to update the file with the new button using a markdown link. For example:
Email Minister Jones
https://influence.freealberta.org/campaign/energy-reform
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/","title":"What is Socialism","text":""},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#political-philosophy-emphasising-social-ownership-of-production","title":"Political philosophy emphasising social ownership of production","text":"Socialism is an economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse economic and social systems1 characterised by social ownership of the means of production,2 as opposed to private ownership.[^footnotehorvat20001515%e2%80%931516-3][^footnotearnold19947%e2%80%938-4]3 It describes the economic, political, and social theories and movements associated with the implementation of such systems. Social ownership can take various forms, including public, community, collective, cooperative,456 or employee.78 As one of the main ideologies on the political spectrum, socialism is the standard left-wing ideology in most countries.9 Types of socialism vary based on the role of markets and planning in resource allocation, and the structure of management in organizations.1011
Socialist systems divide into non-market and market forms.1213 A non-market socialist system seeks to eliminate the perceived inefficiencies, irrationalities, unpredictability, and crises that socialists traditionally associate with capital accumulation and the profit system.14 Market socialism retains the use of monetary prices, factor markets and sometimes the profit motive.1516 As a political force, socialist parties and ideas exercise varying degrees of power and influence, heading national governments in several countries. Socialist politics have been internationalist and nationalist; organised through political parties and opposed to party politics; at times overlapping with trade unions and other times independent and critical of them, and present in industrialised and developing nations.17 Social democracy originated within the socialist movement,18 supporting economic and social interventions to promote social justice.1920 While retaining socialism as a long-term goal,21 in the post-war period social democracy embraced a mixed economy based on Keynesianism within a predominantly developed capitalist market economy and liberal democratic polity that expands state intervention to include income redistribution, regulation, and a welfare state.2223
The socialist political movement includes political philosophies that originated in the revolutionary movements of the mid-to-late 18th century and out of concern for the social problems that socialists associated with capitalism.24 By the late 19th century, after the work of Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, socialism had come to signify anti-capitalism and advocacy for a post-capitalist system based on some form of social ownership of the means of production.2526 By the early 1920s, communism and social democracy had become the two dominant political tendencies within the international socialist movement,27 with socialism itself becoming the most influential secular movement of the 20th century.28 Many socialists also adopted the causes of other social movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, and progressivism.29
Although the emergence of the Soviet Union as the world's first nominally socialist state led to widespread association of socialism with the Soviet economic model, it has since shifted in favour of democratic socialism. Academics recognised the mixed economies of several Western European and Nordic countries as \"democratic socialist\".3031 Following the revolutions of 1989, many of these countries moved away from socialism as a neoliberal consensus replaced the social democratic consensus in the advanced capitalist world.32 In parallel, many former socialist politicians and political parties embraced \"Third Way\" politics, remaining committed to equality and welfare while abandoning public ownership and class-based politics.33 Socialism experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 2010s.3435
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#etymology","title":"Etymology","text":"According to Andrew Vincent, \"[t]he word 'socialism' finds its root in the Latin sociare, which means to combine or to share. The related, more technical term in Roman and then medieval law was societas. This latter word could mean companionship and fellowship as well as the more legalistic idea of a consensual contract between freemen\".36
19th century utopian socialist pamphlet by Rudolf Sutermeister
Initial use of socialism was claimed by Pierre Leroux, who alleged he first used the term in the Parisian journal Le Globe in 1832.37[^ko%c5%82akowski2005-42] Leroux was a follower of Henri de Saint-Simon, one of the founders of what would later be labelled utopian socialism. Socialism contrasted with the liberal doctrine of individualism that emphasized the moral worth of the individual while stressing that people act or should act as if they are in isolation from one another. The original utopian socialists condemned this doctrine of individualism for failing to address social concerns during the Industrial Revolution, including poverty, oppression, and vast wealth inequality. They viewed their society as harming community life by basing society on competition. They presented socialism as an alternative to liberal individualism based on the shared ownership of resources.38 Saint-Simon proposed economic planning, scientific administration and the application of scientific understanding to the organisation of society. By contrast, Robert Owen proposed to organise production and ownership via cooperatives.3839 Socialism is also attributed in France to Marie Roch Louis Reybaud while in Britain it is attributed to Owen, who became one of the fathers of the cooperative movement.4041
The definition and usage of socialism settled by the 1860s, with the term socialist replacing associationist, co-operative, mutualist and collectivist, which had been used as synonyms, while the term communism fell out of use during this period.42 An early distinction between communism and socialism was that the latter aimed to only socialise production while the former aimed to socialise both production and consumption (in the form of free access to final goods).43 By 1888, Marxists employed socialism in place of communism as the latter had come to be considered an old-fashioned synonym for socialism. It was not until after the Bolshevik Revolution that socialism was appropriated by Vladimir Lenin to mean a stage between capitalism and communism. He used it to defend the Bolshevik program from Marxist criticism that Russia's productive forces were not sufficiently developed for communism.44 The distinction between communism and socialism became salient in 1918 after the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party renamed itself to the All-Russian Communist Party, interpreting communism specifically to mean socialists who supported the politics and theories of Bolshevism, Leninism and later that of Marxism\u2013Leninism,45 although communist parties continued to describe themselves as socialists dedicated to socialism.46 According to The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, \"Marx used many terms to refer to a post-capitalist society\u2014positive humanism, socialism, communism, realm of free individuality, free association of producers, etc. He used these terms completely interchangeably. The notion that 'socialism' and 'communism' are distinct historical stages is alien to his work and only entered the lexicon of Marxism after his death\".47
In Christian Europe, communists were believed to have adopted atheism. In Protestant England, communism was too close to the Roman Catholic communion rite, hence socialist was the preferred term.48 Engels wrote that in 1848, when The Communist Manifesto was published, socialism was respectable in Europe while communism was not. The Owenites in England and the Fourierists in France were considered respectable socialists while working-class movements that \"proclaimed the necessity of total social change\" denoted themselves communists.49 This branch of socialism produced the communist work of \u00c9tienne Cabet in France and Wilhelm Weitling in Germany.50 British moral philosopher John Stuart Mill discussed a form of economic socialism within free market. In later editions of his Principles of Political Economy (1848), Mill posited that \"as far as economic theory was concerned, there is nothing in principle in economic theory that precludes an economic order based on socialist policies\"5152 and promoted substituting capitalist businesses with worker cooperatives.53 While democrats looked to the Revolutions of 1848 as a democratic revolution which in the long run ensured liberty, equality, and fraternity, Marxists denounced it as a betrayal of working-class ideals by a bourgeoisie indifferent to the proletariat.54
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#history","title":"History","text":"The history of socialism has its origins in the Age of Enlightenment and the 1789 French Revolution, along with the changes that brought, although it has precedents in earlier movements and ideas. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847-48 just before the Revolutions of 1848 swept Europe, expressing what they termed scientific socialism. In the last third of the 19th century parties dedicated to Democratic socialism arose in Europe, drawing mainly from Marxism. For a duration of one week in December 1899, the Australian Labor Party formed the first ever socialist government in the world when it was elected into power in the Colony of Queensland with Premier Anderson Dawson as its leader.55
New Harmony, a utopian attempt as proposed by Robert Owen
In the first half of the 20th century, the Soviet Union and the communist parties of the Third International around the world, came to represent socialism in terms of the Soviet model of economic development and the creation of centrally planned economies directed by a state that owns all the means of production, although other trends condemned what they saw as the lack of democracy. The establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, saw socialism introduced. China experienced land redistribution and the Anti-Rightist Movement, followed by the disastrous Great Leap Forward. In the UK, Herbert Morrison said that \"socialism is what the Labour government does\" whereas Aneurin Bevan argued socialism requires that the \"main streams of economic activity are brought under public direction\", with an economic plan and workers' democracy.56 Some argued that capitalism had been abolished.57 Socialist governments established the mixed economy with partial nationalisations and social welfare.
By 1968, the prolonged Vietnam War gave rise to the New Left, socialists who tended to be critical of the Soviet Union and social democracy. Anarcho-syndicalists and some elements of the New Left and others favoured decentralised collective ownership in the form of cooperatives or workers' councils. In 1989, the Soviet Union saw the end of communism, marked by the Revolutions of 1989 across Eastern Europe, culminating in the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Socialists have adopted the causes of other social movements such as environmentalism, feminism and progressivism.58
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#early-21st-century","title":"Early 21st century","text":"In 1990, the S\u00e3o Paulo Forum was launched by the Workers' Party (Brazil), linking left-wing socialist parties in Latin America. Its members were associated with the Pink tide of left-wing governments on the continent in the early 21st century. Member parties ruling countries included the Front for Victory in Argentina, the PAIS Alliance in Ecuador, Farabundo Mart\u00ed National Liberation Front in El Salvador, Peru Wins in Peru, and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, whose leader Hugo Ch\u00e1vez initiated what he called \"Socialism of the 21st century\".
Many mainstream democratic socialist and social democratic parties continued to drift right-wards. On the right of the socialist movement, the Progressive Alliance was founded in 2013 by current or former members of the Socialist International. The organisation states the aim of becoming the global network of \"the progressive, democratic, social-democratic, socialist and labour movement\".5960 Mainstream social democratic and socialist parties are also networked in Europe in the Party of European Socialists formed in 1992. Many of these parties lost large parts of their electoral base in the early 21st century. This phenomenon is known as Pasokification6162 from the Greek party PASOK, which saw a declining share of the vote in national elections\u2014from 43.9% in 2009 to 13.2% in May 2012, to 12.3% in June 2012 and 4.7% in 2015\u2014due to its poor handling of the Greek government-debt crisis and implementation of harsh austerity measures.6364
In Europe, the share of votes for such socialist parties was at its 70-year lowest in 2015. For example, the Socialist Party, after winning the 2012 French presidential election, rapidly lost its vote share, the Social Democratic Party of Germany's fortunes declined rapidly from 2005 to 2019, and outside Europe the Israeli Labor Party fell from being the dominant force in Israeli politics to 4.43% of the vote in the April 2019 Israeli legislative election, and the Peruvian Aprista Party went from ruling party in 2011 to a minor party. The decline of these mainstream parties opened space for more radical and populist left parties in some countries, such as Spain's Podemos, Greece's Syriza (in government, 2015\u201319), Germany's Die Linke, and France's La France Insoumise. In other countries, left-wing revivals have taken place within mainstream democratic socialist and centrist parties, as with Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom and Bernie Sanders in the United States.34 Few of these radical left parties have won national government in Europe, while some more mainstream socialist parties have managed to, such as Portugal's Socialist Party.65
Bhaskar Sunkara, the founding editor of the American socialist magazine Jacobin, argued that the appeal of socialism persists due to the inequality and \"tremendous suffering\" under current global capitalism, the use of wage labor \"which rests on the exploitation and domination of humans by other humans,\" and ecological crises, such as climate change.66 In contrast, Mark J. Perry of the conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) argued that despite socialism's resurgence, it is still \"a flawed system based on completely faulty principles that aren't consistent with human behavior and can't nurture the human spirit.\", adding that \"While it promised prosperity, equality, and security, it delivered poverty, misery, and tyranny.\"67 Some in the scientific community have suggested that a contemporary radical response to social and ecological problems could be seen in the emergence of movements associated with degrowth, eco-socialism and eco-anarchism.6869
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#social-and-political-theory","title":"Social and political theory","text":"Early socialist thought took influences from a diverse range of philosophies such as civic republicanism, Enlightenment rationalism, romanticism, forms of materialism, Christianity (both Catholic and Protestant), natural law and natural rights theory, utilitarianism and liberal political economy.70 Another philosophical basis for a great deal of early socialism was the emergence of positivism during the European Enlightenment. Positivism held that both the natural and social worlds could be understood through scientific knowledge and be analysed using scientific methods.
Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, early French socialist
The fundamental objective of socialism is to attain an advanced level of material production and therefore greater productivity, efficiency and rationality as compared to capitalism and all previous systems, under the view that an expansion of human productive capability is the basis for the extension of freedom and equality in society.71 Many forms of socialist theory hold that human behaviour is largely shaped by the social environment. In particular, socialism holds that social mores, values, cultural traits and economic practices are social creations and not the result of an immutable natural law.7273 The object of their critique is thus not human avarice or human consciousness, but the material conditions and man-made social systems (i.e. the economic structure of society) which give rise to observed social problems and inefficiencies. Bertrand Russell, often considered to be the father of analytic philosophy, identified as a socialist. Russell opposed the class struggle aspects of Marxism, viewing socialism solely as an adjustment of economic relations to accommodate modern machine production to benefit all of humanity through the progressive reduction of necessary work time.74
Socialists view creativity as an essential aspect of human nature and define freedom as a state of being where individuals are able to express their creativity unhindered by constraints of both material scarcity and coercive social institutions.75 The socialist concept of individuality is intertwined with the concept of individual creative expression. Karl Marx believed that expansion of the productive forces and technology was the basis for the expansion of human freedom and that socialism, being a system that is consistent with modern developments in technology, would enable the flourishing of \"free individualities\" through the progressive reduction of necessary labour time. The reduction of necessary labour time to a minimum would grant individuals the opportunity to pursue the development of their true individuality and creativity.76
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#criticism-of-capitalism","title":"Criticism of capitalism","text":"Socialists argue that the accumulation of capital generates waste through externalities that require costly corrective regulatory measures. They also point out that this process generates wasteful industries and practices that exist only to generate sufficient demand for products such as high-pressure advertisement to be sold at a profit, thereby creating rather than satisfying economic demand.7778 Socialists argue that capitalism consists of irrational activity, such as the purchasing of commodities only to sell at a later time when their price appreciates, rather than for consumption, even if the commodity cannot be sold at a profit to individuals in need and therefore a crucial criticism often made by socialists is that \"making money\", or accumulation of capital, does not correspond to the satisfaction of demand (the production of use-values).77 The fundamental criterion for economic activity in capitalism is the accumulation of capital for reinvestment in production, but this spurs the development of new, non-productive industries that do not produce use-value and only exist to keep the accumulation process afloat (otherwise the system goes into crisis), such as the spread of the financial industry, contributing to the formation of economic bubbles.79 Such accumulation and reinvestment, when it demands a constant rate of profit, causes problems if the earnings in the rest of society do not increase in proportion.80
Socialists view private property relations as limiting the potential of productive forces in the economy. According to socialists, private property becomes obsolete when it concentrates into centralised, socialised institutions based on private appropriation of revenue\u2014but based on cooperative work and internal planning in allocation of inputs\u2014until the role of the capitalist becomes redundant.81 With no need for capital accumulation and a class of owners, private property in the means of production is perceived as being an outdated form of economic organisation that should be replaced by a free association of individuals based on public or common ownership of these socialised assets.[^footnotehorvat198215%e2%80%93201:_capitalism,_the_general_pattern_of_capitalist_development-87]82 Private ownership imposes constraints on planning, leading to uncoordinated economic decisions that result in business fluctuations, unemployment and a tremendous waste of material resources during crisis of overproduction.83
Excessive disparities in income distribution lead to social instability and require costly corrective measures in the form of redistributive taxation, which incurs heavy administrative costs while weakening the incentive to work, inviting dishonesty and increasing the likelihood of tax evasion while (the corrective measures) reduce the overall efficiency of the market economy.[^footnotehorvat1982197%e2%80%93198-90] These corrective policies limit the incentive system of the market by providing things such as minimum wages, unemployment insurance, taxing profits and reducing the reserve army of labour, resulting in reduced incentives for capitalists to invest in more production. In essence, social welfare policies cripple capitalism and its incentive system and are thus unsustainable in the long run.[^footnoteschweickartlawlerticktinollman199860%e2%80%9361-91] Marxists argue that the establishment of a socialist mode of production is the only way to overcome these deficiencies. Socialists and specifically Marxian socialists argue that the inherent conflict of interests between the working class and capital prevent optimal use of available human resources and leads to contradictory interest groups (labour and business) striving to influence the state to intervene in the economy in their favour at the expense of overall economic efficiency. Early socialists (utopian socialists and Ricardian socialists) criticised capitalism for concentrating power and wealth within a small segment of society.84 In addition, they complained that capitalism does not use available technology and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public.82
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#marxism","title":"Marxism","text":"At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or\u2014this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms\u2014with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.88
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels argued that socialism would emerge from historical necessity as capitalism rendered itself obsolete and unsustainable from increasing internal contradictions emerging from the development of the productive forces and technology. It was these advances in the productive forces combined with the old social relations of production of capitalism that would generate contradictions, leading to working-class consciousness.85
The writings of Karl Marx provided the basis for the development of Marxist political theory and Marxian economics.
Marx and Engels held the view that the consciousness of those who earn a wage or salary (the working class in the broadest Marxist sense) would be moulded by their conditions of wage slavery, leading to a tendency to seek their freedom or emancipation by overthrowing ownership of the means of production by capitalists and consequently, overthrowing the state that upheld this economic order. For Marx and Engels, conditions determine consciousness and ending the role of the capitalist class leads eventually to a classless society in which the state would wither away.
Marx and Engels used the terms socialism and communism interchangeably, but many later Marxists defined socialism as a specific historical phase that would displace capitalism and precede communism.4447
The major characteristics of socialism (particularly as conceived by Marx and Engels after the Paris Commune of 1871) are that the proletariat would control the means of production through a workers' state erected by the workers in their interests.
For orthodox Marxists, socialism is the lower stage of communism based on the principle of \"from each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution\", while upper stage communism is based on the principle of \"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need\", the upper stage becoming possible only after the socialist stage further develops economic efficiency and the automation of production has led to a superabundance of goods and services.8687 Marx argued that the material productive forces (in industry and commerce) brought into existence by capitalism predicated a cooperative society since production had become a mass social, collective activity of the working class to create commodities but with private ownership (the relations of production or property relations). This conflict between collective effort in large factories and private ownership would bring about a conscious desire in the working class to establish collective ownership commensurate with the collective efforts their daily experience.88
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#role-of-the-state","title":"Role of the state","text":"Socialists have taken different perspectives on the state and the role it should play in revolutionary struggles, in constructing socialism and within an established socialist economy.
In the 19th century, the philosophy of state socialism was first explicitly expounded by the German political philosopher Ferdinand Lassalle. In contrast to Karl Marx's perspective of the state, Lassalle rejected the concept of the state as a class-based power structure whose main function was to preserve existing class structures. Lassalle also rejected the Marxist view that the state was destined to \"wither away\". Lassalle considered the state to be an entity independent of class allegiances and an instrument of justice that would therefore be essential for achieving socialism.89
Preceding the Bolshevik-led revolution in Russia, many socialists including reformists, orthodox Marxist currents such as council communism, anarchists and libertarian socialists criticised the idea of using the state to conduct central planning and own the means of production as a way to establish socialism. Following the victory of Leninism in Russia, the idea of \"state socialism\" spread rapidly throughout the socialist movement and eventually state socialism came to be identified with the Soviet economic model.90
Joseph Schumpeter rejected the association of socialism and social ownership with state ownership over the means of production because the state as it exists in its current form is a product of capitalist society and cannot be transplanted to a different institutional framework. Schumpeter argued that there would be different institutions within socialism than those that exist within modern capitalism, just as feudalism had its own distinct and unique institutional forms. The state, along with concepts like property and taxation, were concepts exclusive to commercial society (capitalism) and attempting to place them within the context of a future socialist society would amount to a distortion of these concepts by using them out of context.91
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#utopian-versus-scientific","title":"Utopian versus scientific","text":"Utopian socialism is a term used to define the first currents of modern socialist thought as exemplified by the work of Henri de Saint-Simon, Charles Fourier and Robert Owen which inspired Karl Marx and other early socialists.92 Visions of imaginary ideal societies, which competed with revolutionary social democratic movements, were viewed as not being grounded in the material conditions of society and as reactionary.93 Although it is technically possible for any set of ideas or any person living at any time in history to be a utopian socialist, the term is most often applied to those socialists who lived in the first quarter of the 19th century who were ascribed the label \"utopian\" by later socialists as a negative term to imply naivete and dismiss their ideas as fanciful or unrealistic.94
Religious sects whose members live communally such as the Hutterites are not usually called \"utopian socialists\", although their way of living is a prime example. They have been categorised as religious socialists by some. Similarly, modern intentional communities based on socialist ideas could also be categorised as \"utopian socialist\". For Marxists, the development of capitalism in Western Europe provided a material basis for the possibility of bringing about socialism because according to The Communist Manifesto \"[w]hat the bourgeoisie produces above all is its own grave diggers\",95 namely the working class, which must become conscious of the historical objectives set it by society.
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#reform-versus-revolution","title":"Reform versus revolution","text":"Revolutionary socialists believe that a social revolution is necessary to effect structural changes to the socioeconomic structure of society. Among revolutionary socialists there are differences in strategy, theory and the definition of revolution. Orthodox Marxists and left communists take an impossibilist stance, believing that revolution should be spontaneous as a result of contradictions in society due to technological changes in the productive forces. Lenin theorised that under capitalism the workers cannot achieve class consciousness beyond organising into trade unions and making demands of the capitalists. Therefore, Leninists argue that it is historically necessary for a vanguard of class conscious revolutionaries to take a central role in coordinating the social revolution to overthrow the capitalist state and eventually the institution of the state altogether.96 Revolution is not necessarily defined by revolutionary socialists as violent insurrection,97 but as a complete dismantling and rapid transformation of all areas of class society led by the majority of the masses: the working class.
Reformism is generally associated with social democracy and gradualist democratic socialism. Reformism is the belief that socialists should stand in parliamentary elections within capitalist society and if elected use the machinery of government to pass political and social reforms for the purposes of ameliorating the instabilities and inequities of capitalism. Within socialism, reformism is used in two different ways. One has no intention of bringing about socialism or fundamental economic change to society and is used to oppose such structural changes. The other is based on the assumption that while reforms are not socialist in themselves, they can help rally supporters to the cause of revolution by popularizing the cause of socialism to the working class.98
The debate on the ability for social democratic reformism to lead to a socialist transformation of society is over a century old. Reformism is criticized for being paradoxical as it seeks to overcome the existing economic system of capitalism while trying to improve the conditions of capitalism, thereby making it appear more tolerable to society. According to Rosa Luxemburg, capitalism is not overthrown, \"but is on the contrary strengthened by the development of social reforms\".99 In a similar vein, Stan Parker of the Socialist Party of Great Britain argues that reforms are a diversion of energy for socialists and are limited because they must adhere to the logic of capitalism.98 French social theorist Andr\u00e9 Gorz criticized reformism by advocating a third alternative to reformism and social revolution that he called \"non-reformist reforms\", specifically focused on structural changes to capitalism as opposed to reforms to improve living conditions within capitalism or to prop it up through economic interventions.100
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#culture","title":"Culture","text":"Under Socialism, solidarity will be the basis of society. Literature and art will be tuned to a different key.
\u2014Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, 1924101102
In the Leninist conception, the role of the vanguard party was to politically educate the workers and peasants to dispel the societal false consciousness of institutional religion and nationalism that constitute the cultural status quo taught by the bourgeoisie to the proletariat to facilitate their economic exploitation of peasants and workers. Influenced by Lenin, the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party stated that the development of the socialist workers' culture should not be \"hamstrung from above\" and opposed the Proletkult (1917\u20131925) organisational control of the national culture.103 Similarly, Trotsky viewed the party as transmitters of culture to the masses for raising the standards of education, as well as entry into the cultural sphere, but that the process of artistic creation in terms of language and presentation should be the domain of the practitioner. According to political scientist Baruch Knei-Paz in his book The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky, this represented one of several distinctions between Trotsky's approach on cultural matters and Stalin's policy in the 1930s.104
Man, Controller of the Universe produced by Mexican artist Diego Rivera
In Literature and Revolution, Trotsky examined aesthetic issues in relation to class and the Russian revolution. Soviet scholar Robert Bird considered his work as the \"first systematic treatment of art by a Communist leader\" and a catalyst for later, Marxist cultural and critical theories.105 He would later co-author the 1938 Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art with the endorsement of prominent artists Andre Breton and Diego Rivera.106 Trotsky's writings on literature such as his 1923 survey which advocated tolerance, limited censorship and respect for literary tradition had strong appeal to the New York Intellectuals.107
Prior to Stalin's rule, literary, religious and national representatives had some level of autonomy in Soviet Russia throughout the 1920s but these groups were later rigorously repressed during the Stalinist era. Socialist realism was imposed under Stalin in artistic production and other creative industries such as music, film along with sports were subject to extreme levels of political control.108
The counter-cultural phenomenon which emerged in the 1960s shaped the intellectual and radical outlook of the New Left; this movement placed a heavy emphasis on anti-racism, anti-imperialism and direct democracy in opposition to the dominant culture of advanced industrial capitalism.109 Socialist groups have also been closely involved with a number of counter-cultural movements such as Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War Coalition, Love Music Hate Racism, Anti-Nazi League110 and Unite Against Fascism.111
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#economics","title":"Economics","text":"The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. ... I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilised in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.339
Albert Einstein advocated for a socialist planned economy with his 1949 article \"Why Socialism?\"
Socialist economics starts from the premise that \"individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members\".112
The original conception of socialism was an economic system whereby production was organised in a way to directly produce goods and services for their utility (or use-value in classical and Marxian economics), with the direct allocation of resources in terms of physical units as opposed to financial calculation and the economic laws of capitalism (see law of value), often entailing the end of capitalistic economic categories such as rent, interest, profit and money.113 In a fully developed socialist economy, production and balancing factor inputs with outputs becomes a technical process to be undertaken by engineers.114
Market socialism refers to an array of different economic theories and systems that use the market mechanism to organise production and to allocate factor inputs among socially owned enterprises, with the economic surplus (profits) accruing to society in a social dividend as opposed to private capital owners.115 Variations of market socialism include libertarian proposals such as mutualism, based on classical economics, and neoclassical economic models such as the Lange model. Some economists, such as Joseph Stiglitz, Mancur Olson, and others not specifically advancing anti-socialists positions have shown that prevailing economic models upon which such democratic or market socialism models might be based have logical flaws or unworkable presuppositions.116117 These criticisms have been incorporated into the models of market socialism developed by John Roemer and Nicholas Vrousalis.118119[when?]
The ownership of the means of production can be based on direct ownership by the users of the productive property through worker cooperative; or commonly owned by all of society with management and control delegated to those who operate/use the means of production; or public ownership by a state apparatus. Public ownership may refer to the creation of state-owned enterprises, nationalisation, municipalisation or autonomous collective institutions. Some socialists feel that in a socialist economy, at least the \"commanding heights\" of the economy must be publicly owned.120 Economic liberals and right libertarians view private ownership of the means of production and the market exchange as natural entities or moral rights which are central to their conceptions of freedom and liberty and view the economic dynamics of capitalism as immutable and absolute, therefore they perceive public ownership of the means of production, cooperatives and economic planning as infringements upon liberty.121122
Management and control over the activities of enterprises are based on self-management and self-governance, with equal power-relations in the workplace to maximise occupational autonomy. A socialist form of organisation would eliminate controlling hierarchies so that only a hierarchy based on technical knowledge in the workplace remains. Every member would have decision-making power in the firm and would be able to participate in establishing its overall policy objectives. The policies/goals would be carried out by the technical specialists that form the coordinating hierarchy of the firm, who would establish plans or directives for the work community to accomplish these goals.123
The role and use of money in a hypothetical socialist economy is a contested issue. Nineteenth century socialists including Karl Marx, Robert Owen, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and John Stuart Mill advocated various forms of labour vouchers or labour credits, which like money would be used to acquire articles of consumption, but unlike money they are unable to become capital and would not be used to allocate resources within the production process. Bolshevik revolutionary Leon Trotsky argued that money could not be arbitrarily abolished following a socialist revolution. Money had to exhaust its \"historic mission\", meaning it would have to be used until its function became redundant, eventually being transformed into bookkeeping receipts for statisticians and only in the more distant future would money not be required for even that role.124
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#planned-economy","title":"Planned economy","text":"A planned economy is a type of economy consisting of a mixture of public ownership of the means of production and the coordination of production and distribution through economic planning. A planned economy can be either decentralised or centralised. Enrico Barone provided a comprehensive theoretical framework for a planned socialist economy. In his model, assuming perfect computation techniques, simultaneous equations relating inputs and outputs to ratios of equivalence would provide appropriate valuations to balance supply and demand.125
The most prominent example of a planned economy was the economic system of the Soviet Union and as such the centralised-planned economic model is usually associated with the communist states of the 20th century, where it was combined with a single-party political system. In a centrally planned economy, decisions regarding the quantity of goods and services to be produced are planned in advance by a planning agency (see also the analysis of Soviet-type economic planning). The economic systems of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc are further classified as \"command economies\", which are defined as systems where economic coordination is undertaken by commands, directives and production targets.126 Studies by economists of various political persuasions on the actual functioning of the Soviet economy indicate that it was not actually a planned economy. Instead of conscious planning, the Soviet economy was based on a process whereby the plan was modified by localised agents and the original plans went largely unfulfilled. Planning agencies, ministries and enterprises all adapted and bargained with each other during the formulation of the plan as opposed to following a plan passed down from a higher authority, leading some economists to suggest that planning did not actually take place within the Soviet economy and that a better description would be an \"administered\" or \"managed\" economy.127
Although central planning was largely supported by Marxist\u2013Leninists, some factions within the Soviet Union before the rise of Stalinism held positions contrary to central planning. Leon Trotsky rejected central planning in favour of decentralised planning. He argued that central planners, regardless of their intellectual capacity, would be unable to coordinate effectively all economic activity within an economy because they operated without the input and tacit knowledge embodied by the participation of the millions of people in the economy. As a result, central planners would be unable to respond to local economic conditions.128 State socialism is unfeasible in this view because information cannot be aggregated by a central body and effectively used to formulate a plan for an entire economy, because doing so would result in distorted or absent price signals.129
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#self-managed-economy","title":"Self-managed economy","text":"Socialism, you see, is a bird with two wings. The definition is 'social ownership and democratic control of the instruments and means of production.'340
The Soviet of Workers' Deputies of St. Petersburg in 1905, Trotsky in the center. The soviets were an early example of a workers council.
A self-managed, decentralised economy is based on autonomous self-regulating economic units and a decentralised mechanism of resource allocation and decision-making. This model has found support in notable classical and neoclassical economists including Alfred Marshall, John Stuart Mill and Jaroslav Vanek. There are numerous variations of self-management, including labour-managed firms and worker-managed firms. The goals of self-management are to eliminate exploitation and reduce alienation.130 Guild socialism is a political movement advocating workers' control of industry through the medium of trade-related guilds \"in an implied contractual relationship with the public\".131 It originated in the United Kingdom and was at its most influential in the first quarter of the 20th century.131 It was strongly associated with G. D. H. Cole and influenced by the ideas of William Morris.
Project Cybersyn was an early form of computational economic planning
One such system is the cooperative economy, a largely free market economy in which workers manage the firms and democratically determine remuneration levels and labour divisions. Productive resources would be legally owned by the cooperative and rented to the workers, who would enjoy usufruct rights.132 Another form of decentralised planning is the use of cybernetics, or the use of computers to manage the allocation of economic inputs. The socialist-run government of Salvador Allende in Chile experimented with Project Cybersyn, a real-time information bridge between the government, state enterprises and consumers.133 This had been preceded by similar efforts to introduce a form of cybernetic economic planning as seen with the proposed OGAS system in the Soviet Union. The OGAS project was conceived to oversee a nationwide information network but was never implemented due to conflicting, bureaucratic interests.134 Another, more recent variant is participatory economics, wherein the economy is planned by decentralised councils of workers and consumers. Workers would be remunerated solely according to effort and sacrifice, so that those engaged in dangerous, uncomfortable and strenuous work would receive the highest incomes and could thereby work less.135 A contemporary model for a self-managed, non-market socialism is Pat Devine's model of negotiated coordination. Negotiated coordination is based upon social ownership by those affected by the use of the assets involved, with decisions made by those at the most localised level of production.136
Michel Bauwens identifies the emergence of the open software movement and peer-to-peer production as a new alternative mode of production to the capitalist economy and centrally planned economy that is based on collaborative self-management, common ownership of resources and the production of use-values through the free cooperation of producers who have access to distributed capital.137
Anarcho-communism is a theory of anarchism which advocates the abolition of the state, private property and capitalism in favour of common ownership of the means of production.138139 Anarcho-syndicalism was practised in Catalonia and other places in the Spanish Revolution during the Spanish Civil War. Sam Dolgoff estimated that about eight million people participated directly or at least indirectly in the Spanish Revolution.140
The economy of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia established a system based on market-based allocation, social ownership of the means of production and self-management within firms. This system substituted Yugoslavia's Soviet-type central planning with a decentralised, self-managed system after reforms in 1953.141
The Marxian economist Richard D. Wolff argues that \"re-organising production so that workers become collectively self-directed at their work-sites\" not only moves society beyond both capitalism and state socialism of the last century, but would also mark another milestone in human history, similar to earlier transitions out of slavery and feudalism.142 As an example, Wolff claims that Mondragon is \"a stunningly successful alternative to the capitalist organisation of production\".143
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#state-directed-economy","title":"State-directed economy","text":"State socialism can be used to classify any variety of socialist philosophies that advocates the ownership of the means of production by the state apparatus, either as a transitional stage between capitalism and socialism, or as an end-goal in itself. Typically, it refers to a form of technocratic management, whereby technical specialists administer or manage economic enterprises on behalf of society and the public interest instead of workers' councils or workplace democracy.
A state-directed economy may refer to a type of mixed economy consisting of public ownership over large industries, as promoted by various Social democratic political parties during the 20th century. This ideology influenced the policies of the British Labour Party during Clement Attlee's administration. In the biography of the 1945 United Kingdom Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: \"[T]he government ... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy.\"144
Nationalisation in the United Kingdom was achieved through compulsory purchase of the industry (i.e. with compensation). British Aerospace was a combination of major aircraft companies British Aircraft Corporation, Hawker Siddeley and others. British Shipbuilders was a combination of the major shipbuilding companies including Cammell Laird, Govan Shipbuilders, Swan Hunter and Yarrow Shipbuilders, whereas the nationalisation of the coal mines in 1947 created a coal board charged with running the coal industry commercially so as to be able to meet the interest payable on the bonds which the former mine owners' shares had been converted into.145146
Market socialism consists of publicly owned or cooperatively owned enterprises operating in a market economy. It is a system that uses the market and monetary prices for the allocation and accounting of the means of production, thereby retaining the process of capital accumulation. The profit generated would be used to directly remunerate employees, collectively sustain the enterprise or finance public institutions.147 In state-oriented forms of market socialism, in which state enterprises attempt to maximise profit, the profits can be used to fund government programs and services through a social dividend, eliminating or greatly diminishing the need for various forms of taxation that exist in capitalist systems. Neoclassical economist L\u00e9on Walras believed that a socialist economy based on state ownership of land and natural resources would provide a means of public finance to make income taxes unnecessary.148 Yugoslavia implemented a market socialist economy based on cooperatives and worker self-management.149 Some of the economic reforms introduced during the Prague Spring by Alexander Dub\u010dek, the leader of Czechoslovakia, included elements of market socialism.150
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, main theorist of mutualism and influential French socialist thinker
Mutualism is an economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labour in the free market.151 Integral to the scheme was the establishment of a mutual-credit bank that would lend to producers at a minimal interest rate, just high enough to cover administration.152 Mutualism is based on a labour theory of value that holds that when labour or its product is sold, in exchange it ought to receive goods or services embodying \"the amount of labour necessary to produce an article of exactly similar and equal utility\".153
The current economic system in China is formally referred to as a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics. It combines a large state sector that comprises the commanding heights of the economy, which are guaranteed their public ownership status by law,154 with a private sector mainly engaged in commodity production and light industry responsible from anywhere between 33%155 to over 70% of GDP generated in 2005.156 Although there has been a rapid expansion of private-sector activity since the 1980s, privatisation of state assets was virtually halted and were partially reversed in 2005.157 The current Chinese economy consists of 150 corporatised state-owned enterprises that report directly to China's central government.158 By 2008, these state-owned corporations had become increasingly dynamic and generated large increases in revenue for the state,159160 resulting in a state-sector led recovery during the 2009 financial crises while accounting for most of China's economic growth.161 The Chinese economic model is widely cited as a contemporary form of state capitalism, the major difference between Western capitalism and the Chinese model being the degree of state-ownership of shares in publicly listed corporations. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam has adopted a similar model after the Doi Moi economic renovation but slightly differs from the Chinese model in that the Vietnamese government retains firm control over the state sector and strategic industries, but allows for private-sector activity in commodity production.162
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#politics","title":"Politics","text":"Socialists in Union Square, New York City on May Day 1912
While major socialist political movements include anarchism, communism, the labour movement, Marxism, social democracy, and syndicalism, independent socialist theorists, utopian socialist authors, and academic supporters of socialism may not be represented in these movements. Some political groups have called themselves socialist while holding views that some consider antithetical to socialism. Socialist has been used by members of the political right as an epithet, including against individuals who do not consider themselves to be socialists and against policies that are not considered socialist by their proponents. While there are many variations of socialism, and there is no single definition encapsulating all of socialism, there have been common elements identified by scholars.[^footnotelambdocherty20061%e2%80%933-174]
In his Dictionary of Socialism (1924), Angelo S. Rappoport analysed forty definitions of socialism to conclude that common elements of socialism include general criticism of the social effects of private ownership and control of capital\u2014as being the cause of poverty, low wages, unemployment, economic and social inequality and a lack of economic security; a general view that the solution to these problems is a form of collective control over the means of production, distribution and exchange (the degree and means of control vary among socialist movements); an agreement that the outcome of this collective control should be a society based upon social justice, including social equality, economic protection of people and should provide a more satisfying life for most people.[^footnotelambdocherty20061%e2%80%932-175]
In The Concepts of Socialism (1975), Bhikhu Parekh identifies four core principles of socialism and particularly socialist society, namely sociality, social responsibility, cooperation and planning.163 In his study Ideologies and Political Theory (1996), Michael Freeden states that all socialists share five themes: the first is that socialism posits that society is more than a mere collection of individuals; second, that it considers human welfare a desirable objective; third, that it considers humans by nature to be active and productive; fourth, it holds the belief of human equality; and fifth, that history is progressive and will create positive change on the condition that humans work to achieve such change.163
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#anarchism","title":"Anarchism","text":"Anarchism advocates stateless societies often defined as self-governed voluntary institutions,164165166167 but that several authors have defined as more specific institutions based on non-hierarchical free associations.168169170171 While anarchism holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary or harmful,172173 it is not the central aspect.174 Anarchism entails opposing authority or hierarchical organisation in the conduct of human relations, including the state system.168175176177178 Mutualists support market socialism, collectivist anarchists favour workers cooperatives and salaries based on the amount of time contributed to production, anarcho-communists advocate a direct transition from capitalism to libertarian communism and a gift economy and anarcho-syndicalists prefer workers' direct action and the general strike.179
The authoritarian\u2013libertarian struggles and disputes within the socialist movement go back to the First International and the expulsion in 1872 of the anarchists, who went on to lead the Anti-authoritarian International and then founded their own libertarian international, the Anarchist St. Imier International.180 In 1888, the individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker, who proclaimed himself to be an anarchistic socialist and libertarian socialist in opposition to the authoritarian state socialism and the compulsory communism, included the full text of a \"Socialistic Letter\" by Ernest Lesigne181 in his essay on \"State Socialism and Anarchism\". According to Lesigne, there are two types of socialism: \"One is dictatorial, the other libertarian\".182 Tucker's two socialisms were the authoritarian state socialism which he associated to the Marxist school and the libertarian anarchist socialism, or simply anarchism, that he advocated. Tucker noted that the fact that the authoritarian \"State Socialism has overshadowed other forms of Socialism gives it no right to a monopoly of the Socialistic idea\".183 According to Tucker, what those two schools of socialism had in common was the labor theory of value and the ends, by which anarchism pursued different means.184
According to anarchists such as the authors of An Anarchist FAQ, anarchism is one of the many traditions of socialism. For anarchists and other anti-authoritarian socialists, socialism \"can only mean a classless and anti-authoritarian (i.e. libertarian) society in which people manage their own affairs, either as individuals or as part of a group (depending on the situation). In other words, it implies self-management in all aspects of life\", including at the workplace.179 Michael Newman includes anarchism as one of many socialist traditions.94 Peter Marshall argues that \"[i]n general anarchism is closer to socialism than liberalism. ... Anarchism finds itself largely in the socialist camp, but it also has outriders in liberalism. It cannot be reduced to socialism, and is best seen as a separate and distinctive doctrine.\"185
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Democratic socialism represents any socialist movement that seeks to establish an economy based on economic democracy by and for the working class. Democratic socialism is difficult to define and groups of scholars have radically different definitions for the term. Some definitions simply refer to all forms of socialism that follow an electoral, reformist or evolutionary path to socialism rather than a revolutionary one.186 According to Christopher Pierson, \"[i]f the contrast which 1989 highlights is not that between socialism in the East and liberal democracy in the West, the latter must be recognised to have been shaped, reformed and compromised by a century of social democratic pressure\". Pierson further claims that \"social democratic and socialist parties within the constitutional arena in the West have almost always been involved in a politics of compromise with existing capitalist institutions (to whatever far distant prize its eyes might from time to time have been lifted)\". For Pierson, \"if advocates of the death of socialism accept that social democrats belong within the socialist camp, as I think they must, then the contrast between socialism (in all its variants) and liberal democracy must collapse. For actually existing liberal democracy is, in substantial part, a product of socialist (social democratic) forces\".187
Social democracy is a socialist tradition of political thought.188189 Many social democrats refer to themselves as socialists or democratic socialists and some such as Tony Blair employ these terms interchangeably.190191192 Others found \"clear differences\" between the three terms and prefer to describe their own political beliefs by using the term social democracy.193 The two main directions were to establish democratic socialism or to build first a welfare state within the capitalist system. The first variant advances democratic socialism through reformist and gradualist methods.194 In the second variant, social democracy is a policy regime involving a welfare state, collective bargaining schemes, support for publicly financed public services and a mixed economy. It is often used in this manner to refer to Western and Northern Europe during the later half of the 20th century.195 It was described by Jerry Mander as \"hybrid economics\", an active collaboration of capitalist and socialist visions.196 Some studies and surveys indicate that people tend to live happier and healthier lives in social democratic societies rather than neoliberal ones.197198199200
Eduard Bernstein
Social democrats advocate a peaceful, evolutionary transition of the economy to socialism through progressive social reform.201[^footnotenewman2005[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidkn8lluabgh8cpgpa74_74]-218] It asserts that the only acceptable constitutional form of government is representative democracy under the rule of law.202 It promotes extending democratic decision-making beyond political democracy to include economic democracy to guarantee employees and other economic stakeholders sufficient rights of co-determination.202 It supports a mixed economy that opposes inequality, poverty and oppression while rejecting both a totally unregulated market economy or a fully planned economy.203 Common social democratic policies include universal social rights and universally accessible public services such as education, health care, workers' compensation and other services, including child care and elder care.204 Socialist child care and elderly care systems allow citizens to take a more active role in building a socialist society, especially women.205 Social democracy supports the trade union labour movement and supports collective bargaining rights for workers.206 Most social democratic parties are affiliated with the Socialist International.194
Modern democratic socialism is a broad political movement that seeks to promote the ideals of socialism within the context of a democratic system. Some democratic socialists support social democracy as a temporary measure to reform the current system while others reject reformism in favour of more revolutionary methods. Modern social democracy emphasises a program of gradual legislative modification of capitalism to make it more equitable and humane while the theoretical end goal of building a socialist society is relegated to the indefinite future. According to Sheri Berman, Marxism is loosely held to be valuable for its emphasis on changing the world for a more just, better future.207
The two movements are widely similar both in terminology and in ideology, although there are a few key differences. The major difference between social democracy and democratic socialism is the object of their politics in that contemporary social democrats support a welfare state and unemployment insurance as well as other practical, progressive reforms of capitalism and are more concerned to administrate and humanise it. On the other hand, democratic socialists seek to replace capitalism with a socialist economic system, arguing that any attempt to humanise capitalism through regulations and welfare policies would distort the market and create economic contradictions.208
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Ethical socialism appeals to socialism on ethical and moral grounds as opposed to economic, egoistic, and consumeristic grounds. It emphasizes the need for a morally conscious economy based upon the principles of altruism, cooperation, and social justice while opposing possessive individualism.[^footnotethompson200652,_58%e2%80%9359-226] Ethical socialism has been the official philosophy of mainstream socialist parties.209
Liberal socialism incorporates liberal principles to socialism.210 It has been compared to post-war social democracy211 for its support of a mixed economy that includes both public and private capital goods.212213 While democratic socialism and social democracy are anti-capitalist positions insofar as criticism of capitalism is linked to the private ownership of the means of production,[^footnotelambdocherty20061%e2%80%932-175] liberal socialism identifies artificial and legalistic monopolies to be the fault of capitalism214 and opposes an entirely unregulated market economy.215 It considers both liberty and social equality to be compatible and mutually dependent.210
Principles that can be described as ethical or liberal socialist have been based upon or developed by philosophers such as John Stuart Mill, Eduard Bernstein, John Dewey, Carlo Rosselli, Norberto Bobbio, and Chantal Mouffe.216 Other important liberal socialist figures include Guido Calogero, Piero Gobetti, Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse, John Maynard Keynes and R. H. Tawney.215 Liberal socialism has been particularly prominent in British and Italian politics.215
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Blanquism is a conception of revolution named for Louis Auguste Blanqui. It holds that socialist revolution should be carried out by a relatively small group of highly organised and secretive conspirators. Upon seizing power, the revolutionaries introduce socialism.[citation needed] Rosa Luxemburg and Eduard Bernstein217 criticised Lenin, stating that his conception of revolution was elitist and Blanquist.218 Marxism\u2013Leninism combines Marx's scientific socialist concepts and Lenin's anti-imperialism, democratic centralism, vanguardism219 and the principle of \"He who does not work, neither shall he eat\".220
Hal Draper defined socialism from above as the philosophy which employs an elite administration to run the socialist state. The other side of socialism is a more democratic socialism from below.221 The idea of socialism from above is much more frequently discussed in elite circles than socialism from below\u2014even if that is the Marxist ideal\u2014because it is more practical.222 Draper viewed socialism from below as being the purer, more Marxist version of socialism.223 According to Draper, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were devoutly opposed to any socialist institution that was \"conducive to superstitious authoritarianism\". Draper makes the argument that this division echoes the division between \"reformist or revolutionary, peaceful or violent, democratic or authoritarian, etc.\" and further identifies six major varieties of socialism from above, among them \"Philanthropism\", \"Elitism\", \"Pannism\", \"Communism\", \"Permeationism\" and \"Socialism-from-Outside\".224 According to Arthur Lipow, Marx and Engels were \"the founders of modern revolutionary democratic socialism\", described as a form of \"socialism from below\" that is \"based on a mass working-class movement, fighting from below for the extension of democracy and human freedom\". This type of socialism is contrasted to that of the \"authoritarian, anti-democratic creed\" and \"the various totalitarian collectivist ideologies which claim the title of socialism\" as well as \"the many varieties of 'socialism from above' which have led in the twentieth century to movements and state forms in which a despotic 'new class' rules over a stratified economy in the name of socialism\", a division that \"runs through the history of the socialist movement\". Lipow identifies Bellamyism and Stalinism as two prominent authoritarian socialist currents within the history of the socialist movement.225
Trotsky viewed himself to be an adherent of Leninism but opposed the bureaucratic and authoritarian methods of Stalin.226 A number of scholars and Western socialists have regarded Leon Trotsky as a democratic alternative rather than a forerunner to Stalin with particular emphasis drawn to his activities in the pre-Civil War period and as leader of the Left Opposition.227228229230 More specifically, Trotsky advocated for a decentralised form of economic planning,231 mass soviet democratization,232233234worker's control of production,235 elected representation of Soviet socialist parties,236237 the tactic of a united front against far-right parties,238 cultural autonomy for artistic movements,239 voluntary collectivisation,240241 a transitional program,242 and socialist internationalism.243
Several scholars state that in practice, the Soviet model functioned as a form of state capitalism.244245246
The first anarchist journal to use the term libertarian was Le Libertaire, Journal du Mouvement Social, published in New York City between 1858 and 1861 by French libertarian communist Joseph D\u00e9jacque,247 the first recorded person to describe himself as libertarian.248
Libertarian socialism, sometimes called left-libertarianism,249250 social anarchism251252 and socialist libertarianism,253 is an anti-authoritarian, anti-statist and libertarian254 tradition within socialism that rejects centralised state ownership and control255 including criticism of wage labour relationships (wage slavery)256 as well as the state itself.257 It emphasises workers' self-management and decentralised structures of political organisation.257258 Libertarian socialism asserts that a society based on freedom and equality can be achieved through abolishing authoritarian institutions that control production.259 Libertarian socialists generally prefer direct democracy and federal or confederal associations such as libertarian municipalism, citizens' assemblies, trade unions and workers' councils.260261
Anarcho-syndicalist Gaston Leval explained:
We therefore foresee a Society in which all activities will be coordinated, a structure that has, at the same time, sufficient flexibility to permit the greatest possible autonomy for social life, or for the life of each enterprise, and enough cohesiveness to prevent all disorder. ... In a well-organised society, all of these things must be systematically accomplished by means of parallel federations, vertically united at the highest levels, constituting one vast organism in which all economic functions will be performed in solidarity with all others and that will permanently preserve the necessary cohesion\".343
All of this is typically done within a general call for libertarian262 and voluntary free associations263 through the identification, criticism and practical dismantling of illegitimate authority in all aspects of human life.264265176
As part of the larger socialist movement, it seeks to distinguish itself from Bolshevism, Leninism and Marxism\u2013Leninism as well as social democracy.266 Past and present political philosophies and movements commonly described as libertarian socialist include anarchism (anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism,267 collectivist anarchism, individualist anarchism268269270 and mutualism),271 autonomism, Communalism, participism, libertarian Marxism (council communism and Luxemburgism),272273 revolutionary syndicalism and utopian socialism (Fourierism).274
Christian socialism is a broad concept involving an intertwining of Christian religion with socialism.275
Arabic letters \"Lam\" and \"Alif\" reading \"L\u0101\" (Arabic for \"No!\") are a symbol of Islamic Socialism in Turkey.
Islamic socialism is a more spiritual form of socialism. Muslim socialists believe that the teachings of the Quran and Muhammad are not only compatible with, but actively promoting the principles of equality and public ownership, drawing inspiration from the early Medina welfare state he established. Muslim socialists are more conservative than their Western contemporaries and find their roots in anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism276277 and sometimes, if in an Arab speaking country, Arab nationalism. Islamic socialists believe in deriving legitimacy from political mandate as opposed to religious texts.
Socialist feminist Clara Zetkin and Rosa Luxemburg in 1910
Socialist feminism is a branch of feminism that argues that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both economic and cultural sources of women's oppression.278 Marxist feminism's foundation was laid by Engels in The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884). August Bebel's Woman under Socialism (1879), is the \"single work dealing with sexuality most widely read by rank-and-file members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)\".279 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both Clara Zetkin and Eleanor Marx were against the demonisation of men and supported a proletariat revolution that would overcome as many male-female inequalities as possible.280 As their movement already had the most radical demands in women's equality, most Marxist leaders, including Clara Zetkin281282 and Alexandra Kollontai,283284 counterposed Marxism against liberal feminism rather than trying to combine them. Anarcha-feminism began with late 19th- and early 20th-century authors and theorists such as anarchist feminists Goldman and Voltairine de Cleyre.285 In the Spanish Civil War, an anarcha-feminist group, Mujeres Libres (\"Free Women\") linked to the Federaci\u00f3n Anarquista Ib\u00e9rica, organised to defend both anarchist and feminist ideas.286 In 1972, the Chicago Women's Liberation Union published \"Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement\", which is believed to be the first published use of the term \"socialist feminism\".287
Edward Carpenter, philosopher and activist who was instrumental in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party as well as in the early LGBTI western movements
Many socialists were early advocates of LGBT rights. For early socialist Charles Fourier, true freedom could only occur without suppressing passions, as the suppression of passions is not only destructive to the individual, but to society as a whole. Writing before the advent of the term \"homosexuality\", Fourier recognised that both men and women have a wide range of sexual needs and preferences which may change throughout their lives, including same-sex sexuality and androg\u00e9nit\u00e9. He argued that all sexual expressions should be enjoyed as long as people are not abused and that \"affirming one's difference\" can actually enhance social integration.288289 In Oscar Wilde's The Soul of Man Under Socialism, he advocates an egalitarian society where wealth is shared by all, while warning of the dangers of social systems that crush individuality.290 Edward Carpenter actively campaigned for homosexual rights. His work The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women was a 1908 book arguing for gay liberation.291 who was an influential personality in the foundation of the Fabian Society and the Labour Party. After the Russian Revolution under the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky, the Soviet Union abolished previous laws against homosexuality.292 Harry Hay was an early leader in the American LGBT rights movement as well as a member of the Communist Party USA. He is known for his involvement in the founding of gay organisations, including the Mattachine Society, the first sustained gay rights group in the United States which in its early days reflected a strong Marxist influence. The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality reports that \"[a]s Marxists the founders of the group believed that the injustice and oppression which they suffered stemmed from relationships deeply embedded in the structure of American society\".293 Emerging from events such as the May 1968 insurrection in France, the anti-Vietnam war movement in the US and the Stonewall riots of 1969, militant gay liberation organisations began to spring up around the world. Many sprang from left radicalism more than established homophile groups,294 although the Gay Liberation Front took an anti-capitalist stance and attacked the nuclear family and traditional gender roles.295
Eco-socialism is a political strain merging aspects of socialism, Marxism or libertarian socialism with green politics, ecology and alter-globalisation. Eco-socialists generally claim that the expansion of the capitalist system is the cause of social exclusion, poverty, war and environmental degradation through globalisation and imperialism under the supervision of repressive states and transnational structures.296 Contrary to the depiction of Karl Marx by some environmentalists,297 social ecologists298 and fellow socialists299 as a productivist who favoured the domination of nature, eco-socialists revisited Marx's writings and believe that he \"was a main originator of the ecological world-view\".300 Marx discussed a \"metabolic rift\" between man and nature, stating that \"private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear quite absurd as private ownership of one man by another\" and his observation that a society must \"hand it [the planet] down to succeeding generations in an improved condition\".301 English socialist William Morris is credited with developing principles of what was later called eco-socialism.302 During the 1880s and 1890s, Morris promoted his ideas within the Social Democratic Federation and Socialist League.303 Green anarchism blends anarchism with environmental issues. An important early influence was Henry David Thoreau and his book Walden304 as well as \u00c9lis\u00e9e Reclus.305306
In the late 19th century, anarcho-naturism fused anarchism and naturist philosophies within individualist anarchist circles in France, Spain, Cuba307 and Portugal.308 Murray Bookchin's first book Our Synthetic Environment309 was followed by his essay \"Ecology and Revolutionary Thought\" which introduced ecology as a concept in radical politics.310 In the 1970s, Barry Commoner, claimed that capitalist technologies were chiefly responsible for environmental degradation as opposed to population pressures.311 In the 1990s socialist/feminists Mary Mellor312 and Ariel Salleh313 adopt an eco-socialist paradigm. An \"environmentalism of the poor\" combining ecological awareness and social justice has also become prominent.314 Pepper critiqued the current approach of many within green politics, particularly deep ecologists.315
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#syndicalism","title":"Syndicalism","text":"Syndicalism operates through industrial trade unions. It rejects state socialism and the use of establishment politics. Syndicalists reject state power in favour of strategies such as the general strike. Syndicalists advocate a socialist economy based on federated unions or syndicates of workers who own and manage the means of production. Some Marxist currents advocate syndicalism, such as De Leonism. Anarcho-syndicalism views syndicalism as a method for workers in capitalist society to gain control of an economy. The Spanish Revolution was largely orchestrated by the anarcho-syndicalist trade union CNT.316 The International Workers' Association is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labour unions and initiatives.317
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#public-views","title":"Public views","text":"A multitude of polls have found significant levels of support for socialism among modern populations.318319
A 2018 IPSOS poll found that 50% of the respondents globally strongly or somewhat agreed that present socialist values were of great value for societal progress. In China this was 84%, India 72%, Malaysia 62%, Turkey 62%, South Africa 57%, Brazil 57%, Russia 55%, Spain 54%, Argentina 52%, Mexico 51%, Saudi Arabia 51%, Sweden 49%, Canada 49%, Great Britain 49%, Australia 49%, Poland 48%, Chile 48%, South Korea 48%, Peru 48%, Italy 47%, Serbia 47%, Germany 45%, Belgium 44%, Romania 40%, United States 39%, France 31%, Hungary 28% and Japan 21%.320
A 2021 survey conducted by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) found that 67% of young British (16\u201324) respondents wanted to live in a socialist economic system, 72% supported the re-nationalisation of various industries such as energy, water along with railways and 75% agreed with the view that climate change was a specifically capitalist problem.321
A 2023 IPSOS poll found that a majority of British public favoured public ownership of utilities including water, rail and electricity. Specifically, 68% of respondents favoured the nationalisation of water services, 65% supporting the nationalisation of the railways, 63% supporting the public ownership of power networks and 39% favouring broadband access which is operated by the government. The poll also found broad levels of support among traditional Labour and Conservative voters.322
The results of a 2019 Axios poll found that 70% of US millennials were willing to vote for a socialist candidate and 50% of this same demographic had a somewhat or very unfavourable view of capitalism.323 Subsequently, another 2021 Axios poll found that 51% of 18-34 US adults had a positive view of socialism. Yet, 41% of Americans more generally had a positive view of socialism compared to 52% of those who viewing socialism more negatively.324
In 2023, the Fraser Institute published findings which found that 42% of Canadians viewed socialism as the ideal system compared to 43% of British respondents, 40% Australian respondents and 31% American respondents. Overall support for socialism ranged from 50% of Canadians 18-24 year olds to 28% of Canadians over 55.325
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#criticism","title":"Criticism","text":"According to analytical Marxist sociologist Erik Olin Wright, \"The Right condemned socialism as violating individual rights to private property and unleashing monstrous forms of state oppression\", while \"the Left saw it as opening up new vistas of social equality, genuine freedom and the development of human potentials.\"326
Because of socialism's many varieties, most critiques have focused on a specific approach. Proponents of one approach typically criticise others. Socialism has been criticised in terms of its models of economic organization as well as its political and social implications. Other critiques are directed at the socialist movement, parties, or existing states.
Some forms of criticism occupy theoretical grounds, such as in the economic calculation problem presented by proponents of the Austrian School as part of the socialist calculation debate, while others support their criticism by examining historical attempts to establish socialist societies. The economic calculation problem concerns the feasibility and methods of resource allocation for a planned socialist system.327328329 Central planning is also criticized by elements of the radical left. Libertarian socialist economist Robin Hahnel notes that even if central planning overcame its inherent inhibitions of incentives and innovation, it would nevertheless be unable to maximize economic democracy and self-management, which he believes are concepts that are more intellectually coherent, consistent and just than mainstream notions of economic freedom.330
Economic liberals and right-libertarians argue that private ownership of the means of production and market exchange are natural entities or moral rights which are central to freedom and liberty and argue that the economic dynamics of capitalism are immutable and absolute. As such, they also argue that public ownership of the means of production and economic planning are infringements upon liberty.331332
Critics of socialism have argued that in any society where everyone holds equal wealth, there can be no material incentive to work because one does not receive rewards for a work well done. They further argue that incentives increase productivity for all people and that the loss of those effects would lead to stagnation. Some critics of socialism argue that income sharing reduces individual incentives to work and therefore incomes should be individualized as much as possible.333
Some philosophers have also criticized the aims of socialism, arguing that equality erodes away at individual diversities and that the establishment of an equal society would have to entail strong coercion.334
Milton Friedman argued that the absence of private economic activity would enable political leaders to grant themselves coercive powers, powers that, under a capitalist system, would instead be granted by a capitalist class, which Friedman found preferable.335
Many commentators on the political right point to the mass killings under communist regimes, claiming them as an indictment of socialism.336[^footnoteengel-dimauro20211%e2%80%9317-356]337 Opponents of this view, including supporters of socialism, state that these killings were aberrations caused by specific authoritarian regimes, and not caused by socialism itself, and draw comparisons to killings, famines and excess deaths under capitalism, colonialism and anti-communist authoritarian governments.338
"},{"location":"archive/socialism-wiki/#see-also","title":"See also","text":"[^footnotenewman2005[httpsbooksgooglecombooksidkn8lluabgh8cpgpa74_74]-218]: Newman (2005), p.\u00a074.
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Hastings, Adrian; Mason, Alistair; Pyper, Hugh (2000). The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought. Oxford University Press. p.\u00a0677. ISBN 978-0198600244. Socialists have always recognized that there are many possible forms of social ownership of which co-operative ownership is one ... Nevertheless, socialism has throughout its history been inseparable from some form of common ownership. By its very nature it involves the abolition of private ownership of capital; bringing the means of production, distribution, and exchange into public ownership and control is central to its philosophy. It is difficult to see how it can survive, in theory or practice, without this central idea.\u00a0\u21a9
Sherman, Howard J.; Zimbalist, Andrew (1988). Comparing Economic Systems: A Political-Economic Approach. Harcourt College Pub. p.\u00a07. ISBN 978-0-15-512403-5. Pure socialism is defined as a system wherein all of the means of production are owned and run by the government and/or cooperative, nonprofit groups.\u00a0\u21a9
Rosser, Mariana V.; Rosser, J. Barkley (2003). Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy. MIT Press. p.\u00a053. ISBN 978-0-262-18234-8. Socialism is an economic system characterised by state or collective ownership of the means of production, land, and capital.\u00a0\u21a9
Badie, Berg-Schlosser & Morlino (2011), p.\u00a02456: \"Socialist systems are those regimes based on the economic and political theory of socialism, which advocates public ownership and cooperative management of the means of production and allocation of resources.\"\u00a0\u21a9
Horvat (2000), pp.\u00a01515\u20131516: \"Just as private ownership defines capitalism, social ownership defines socialism. The essential characteristic of socialism in theory is that it destroys social hierarchies, and therefore leads to a politically and economically egalitarian society. Two closely related consequences follow. First, every individual is entitled to an equal ownership share that earns an aliquot part of the total social dividend ... Second, in order to eliminate social hierarchy in the workplace, enterprises are run by those employed, and not by the representatives of private or state capital. Thus, the well-known historical tendency of the divorce between ownership and management is brought to an end. The society \u2014 i.e. every individual equally \u2014 owns capital and those who work are entitled to manage their own economic affairs.\"\u00a0\u21a9
O'Hara, Phillip (2003). Encyclopedia of Political Economy. Vol.\u00a02. Routledge. p.\u00a071. ISBN 978-0415241878. In order of increasing decentralisation (at least) three forms of socialised ownership can be distinguished: state-owned firms, employee-owned (or socially) owned firms, and citizen ownership of equity.\u00a0\u21a9
\"Left\". Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica. 15 April 2009. Retrieved 22 May 2022. Socialism is the standard leftist ideology in most countries of the world; ... .\u00a0\u21a9
Nove, Alec (2008). \"Socialism\". New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Second\u00a0ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. A society may be defined as socialist if the major part of the means of production of goods and services is in some sense socially owned and operated, by state, socialised or cooperative enterprises. The practical issues of socialism comprise the relationships between management and workforce within the enterprise, the interrelationships between production units (plan versus markets), and, if the state owns and operates any part of the economy, who controls it and how.\u00a0\u21a9
Docherty, James C.; Lamb, Peter, eds. (2006). Historical Dictionary of Socialism. Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements. Vol.\u00a073 (2nd\u00a0ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp.\u00a01\u20133. ISBN 978-0810855601.\u00a0\u21a9
Kolb, Robert (2007). Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society (1st\u00a0ed.). Sage Publications, Inc. p.\u00a01345. ISBN 978-1412916523. There are many forms of socialism, all of which eliminate private ownership of capital and replace it with collective ownership. These many forms, all focused on advancing distributive justice for long-term social welfare, can be divided into two broad types of socialism: nonmarket and market.\u00a0\u21a9
Bockman (2011), p.\u00a020: \"socialism would function without capitalist economic categories\u2014such as money, prices, interest, profits and rent\u2014and thus would function according to laws other than those described by current economic science. While some socialists recognised the need for money and prices at least during the transition from capitalism to socialism, socialists more commonly believed that the socialist economy would soon administratively mobilise the economy in physical units without the use of prices or money.\"; Steele (1999), pp.\u00a0175\u2013177: \"Especially before the 1930s, many socialists and anti-socialists implicitly accepted some form of the following for the incompatibility of state-owned industry and factor markets. A market transaction is an exchange of property titles between two independent transactors. Thus internal market exchanges cease when all of industry is brought into the ownership of a single entity, whether the state or some other organization, ... the discussion applies equally to any form of social or community ownership, where the owning entity is conceived as a single organization or administration.\"; Arneson (1992): \"Marxian socialism is often identified with the call to organize economic activity on a nonmarket basis.\"; Schweickart et al. (1998), pp.\u00a061\u201363: \"More fundamentally, a socialist society must be one in which the economy is run on the principle of the direct satisfaction of human needs. ... Exchange-value, prices and so money are goals in themselves in a capitalist society or in any market. There is no necessary connection between the accumulation of capital or sums of money and human welfare. Under conditions of backwardness, the spur of money and the accumulation of wealth has led to a massive growth in industry and technology. ... It seems an odd argument to say that a capitalist will only be efficient in producing use-value of a good quality when trying to make more money than the next capitalist. It would seem easier to rely on the planning of use-values in a rational way, which because there is no duplication, would be produced more cheaply and be of a higher quality.\"\u00a0\u21a9
Nove (1991), p.\u00a013: \"Under socialism, by definition, it (private property and factor markets) would be eliminated. There would then be something like 'scientific management', 'the science of socially organized production', but it would not be economics.\"; Kotz (2006): \"This understanding of socialism was held not just by revolutionary Marxist socialists but also by evolutionary socialists, Christian socialists, and even anarchists. At that time, there was also wide agreement about the basic institutions of the future socialist system: public ownership instead of private ownership of the means of production, economic planning instead of market forces, production for use instead of for profit.\"; Weisskopf (1992): \"Socialism has historically been committed to the improvement of people's material standards of living. Indeed, in earlier days many socialists saw the promotion of improving material living standards as the primary basis for socialism's claim to superiority over capitalism, for socialism was to overcome the irrationality and inefficiency seen as endemic to a capitalist system of economic organization.\"; Prychitko (2002), p.\u00a012: \"Socialism is a system based upon de facto public or social ownership of the means of production, the abolition of a hierarchical division of labor in the enterprise, a consciously organized social division of labor. Under socialism, money, competitive pricing, and profit-loss accounting would be destroyed.\"\u00a0\u21a9
O'Hara, Phillip (2000). Encyclopedia of Political Economy. Vol.\u00a02. Routledge. p.\u00a071. ISBN 978-0415241878. Market socialism is the general designation for a number of models of economic systems. On the one hand, the market mechanism is utilized to distribute economic output, to organize production and to allocate factor inputs. On the other hand, the economic surplus accrues to society at large rather than to a class of private (capitalist) owners, through some form of collective, public or social ownership of capital.\u00a0\u21a9
Pierson, Christopher (1995). Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism. Pennsylvania State University Press. p.\u00a096. ISBN 978-0271-014784. At the heart of the market socialist model is the abolition of the large-scale private ownership of capital and its replacement by some form of 'social ownership'. Even the most conservative accounts of market socialism insist that this abolition of large-scale holdings of private capital is essential. This requirement is fully consistent with the market socialists' general claim that the vices of market capitalism lie not with the institutions of the market but with (the consequences of) the private ownership of capital ... .\u00a0\u21a9
Newman (2005), p.\u00a02: \"In fact, socialism has been both centralist and local; organized from above and built from below; visionary and pragmatic; revolutionary and reformist; anti-state and statist; internationalist and nationalist; harnessed to political parties and shunning them; an outgrowth of trade unionism and independent of it; a feature of rich industrialized countries and poor peasant-based communities.\"\u00a0\u21a9
Ely, Richard T. (1883). French and German Socialism in Modern Times. New York: Harper and Brothers. pp.\u00a0204\u2013205. Social democrats forms the extreme wing of the socialists ... inclined to lay so much stress on equality of enjoyment, regardless of the value of one's labor, that they might, perhaps, more properly be called communists. ... They have two distinguishing characteristics. The vast majority of them are laborers, and, as a rule, they expect the violent overthrow of existing institutions by revolution to precede the introduction of the socialistic state. I would not, by any means, say that they are all revolutionists, but the most of them undoubtedly are. ... The most general demands of the social democrats are the following: The state should exist exclusively for the laborers; land and capital must become collective property, and production be carried on unitedly. Private competition, in the ordinary sense of the term, is to cease.\u00a0\u21a9
Merkel, Wolfgang; Petring, Alexander; Henkes, Christian; Egle, Christoph (2008). Social Democracy in Power: The Capacity to Reform. Routledge Research in Comparative Politics. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415438209.\u00a0\u21a9
Heywood, Andrew (2012). Political Ideologies: An Introduction (5th\u00a0ed.). Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan. p.\u00a0128. ISBN 978-0230367258. Social democracy is an ideological stance that supports a broad balance between market capitalism, on the one hand, and state intervention, on the other hand. Being based on a compromise between the market and the state, social democracy lacks a systematic underlying theory and is, arguably, inherently vague. It is nevertheless associated with the following views: (1) capitalism is the only reliable means of generating wealth, but it is a morally defective means of distributing wealth because of its tendency towards poverty and inequality; (2) the defects of the capitalist system can be rectified through economic and social intervention, the state being the custodian of the public interest ... .\u00a0\u21a9
Roemer (1994), pp.\u00a025\u201327: \"The long term and the short term.\"; Berman (1998), p.\u00a057: \"Over the long term, however, democratizing Sweden's political system was seen to be important not merely as a means but also as an end in itself. Achieving democracy was crucial not only because it would increase the power of the SAP in the Swedish political system but also because it was the form socialism would take once it arrived. Political, economic, and social equality went hand in hand, according to the SAP, and were all equally important characteristics of the future socialist society.\"; Busky (2000), pp.\u00a07\u20138; Bailey (2009), p.\u00a077: \"... Giorgio Napolitano launched a medium-term programme, 'which tended to justify the governmental deflationary policies, and asked for the understanding of the workers, since any economic recovery would be linked with the long-term goal of an advance towards democratic socialism'\"; Lamb (2015), p.\u00a0415\u00a0\u21a9
Badie, Berg-Schlosser & Morlino (2011), p.\u00a02423: \"Social democracy refers to a political tendency resting on three fundamental features: (1) democracy (e.g., equal rights to vote and form parties), (2) an economy partly regulated by the state (e.g., through Keynesianism), and (3) a welfare state offering social support to those in need (e.g., equal rights to education, health service, employment and pensions).\"\u00a0\u21a9
Smith, J. W. (2005). Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle for the 21st century. Radford: Institute for Economic Democracy Press. ISBN 1933567015.\u00a0\u21a9
Lamb & Docherty (2006), p.\u00a01.\u00a0\u21a9
Gasper, Phillip (2005). The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document. Haymarket Books. p.\u00a024. ISBN 978-1931859257. As the nineteenth century progressed, 'socialist' came to signify not only concern with the social question, but opposition to capitalism and support for some form of social ownership.\u00a0\u21a9
Giddens, Anthony (1998) [1994]. Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics (1998\u00a0ed.). Cambridge, England, UK: Polity Press. p.\u00a071.\u00a0\u21a9
Newman (2005), p.\u00a05: \"Chapter 1 looks at the foundations of the doctrine by examining the contribution made by various traditions of socialism in the period between the early 19th century and the aftermath of the First World War. The two forms that emerged as dominant by the early 1920s were social democracy and communism.\"\u00a0\u21a9
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Kropotkin, Peter. Anarchism: its philosophy and ideal. Archived from the original on 18 March 2012 \u2013 via The Anarchist Library. That is why Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of the mechanism that serves to impose them, when it refuses all hierarchical organisation and preaches free agreement\u2014at the same time strives to maintain and enlarge the precious kernel of social customs without which no human or animal society can exist.\u00a0\u21a9
\"B.1 Why are anarchists against authority and hierarchy?\". An Anarchist FAQ. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012 \u2013 via The Anarchist Library. anarchists are opposed to irrational (e.g., illegitimate) authority, in other words, hierarchy\u2014hierarchy being the institutionalisation of authority within a society.\u00a0\u21a9
Malatesta, Errico. \"Towards Anarchism\". Man!. OCLC 3930443. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Agrell, Siri (14 May 2007). \"Working for The Man\". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 16 May 2007. Retrieved 14 April 2008. \"Anarchism\". Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica. Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Premium Service. 2006. Archived from the original on 14 December 2006. Retrieved 29 August 2006. \"Anarchism\". The Shorter Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: 14. 2005. Anarchism is the view that a society without the state, or government, is both possible and desirable. The following sources cite anarchism as a political philosophy: McLaughlin (2007), p.\u00a059; Johnston, R. (2000). The Dictionary of Human Geography. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers. p.\u00a024. ISBN 978-0631205616.\u00a0\u21a9
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McLaughlin (2007), p.\u00a028\"Anarchists do reject the state, as we will see. But to claim that this central aspect of anarchism is definitive is to sell anarchism short.\"\u00a0\u21a9
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McLaughlin (2007), p.\u00a01\"Authority is defined in terms of the right to exercise social control (as explored in the \"sociology of power\") and the correlative duty to obey (as explored in the \"philosophy of practical reason\"). Anarchism is distinguished, philosophically, by its scepticism towards such moral relations\u2014by its questioning of the claims made for such normative power\u2014and, practically, by its challenge to those \"authoritative\" powers which cannot justify their claims and which are therefore deemed illegitimate or without moral foundation.\"\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
Individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker defined anarchism as opposition to authority as follows \"They found that they must turn either to the right or to the left,\u2014follow either the path of Authority or the path of Liberty. Marx went one way; Warren and Proudhon the other. Thus were born State Socialism and Anarchism\u00a0... Authority, takes many shapes, but, broadly speaking, her enemies divide themselves into three classes: first, those who abhor her both as a means and as an end of progress, opposing her openly, avowedly, sincerely, consistently, universally; second, those who profess to believe in her as a means of progress, but who accept her only so far as they think she will subserve their own selfish interests, denying her and her blessings to the rest of the world; third, those who distrust her as a means of progress, believing in her only as an end to be obtained by first trampling upon, violating, and outraging her. These three phases of opposition to Liberty are met in almost every sphere of thought and human activity. Good representatives of the first are seen in the Catholic Church and the Russian autocracy; of the second, in the Protestant Church and the Manchester school of politics and political economy; of the third, in the atheism of Gambetta and the socialism of Karl Marx.\" Benjamin Tucker. Individual Liberty. \u21a9
Anarchist historian George Woodcock report of Mikhail Bakunin's anti-authoritarianism and shows opposition to both state and non-state forms of authority as follows: \"All anarchists deny authority; many of them fight against it.\" (p. 9)\u00a0... Bakunin did not convert the League's central committee to his full program, but he did persuade them to accept a remarkably radical recommendation to the Bern Congress of September 1868, demanding economic equality and implicitly attacking authority in both Church and State.\"\u00a0\u21a9
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This definition is captured in this statement by Anthony Crosland, who \"argued that the socialisms of the pre-war world (not just that of the Marxists, but of the democratic socialists too) were now increasingly irrelevant\". Pierson, Chris (June 2005). \"Lost property: What the Third Way lacks\". Journal of Political Ideologies. 10 (2): 145\u201363. doi:10.1080/13569310500097265. S2CID 144916176. Other texts which use the terms democratic socialism in this way include Malcolm Hamilton Democratic Socialism in Britain and Sweden (St Martin's Press 1989).\u00a0\u21a9
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\"unlike other socialists, they tend to see (to various different degrees, depending on the thinker) to be skeptical of centralised state intervention as the solution to capitalist exploitation...\" Roderick T. Long. \"Toward a libertarian theory of class.\" Social Philosophy and Policy. Volume 15. Issue 02. Summer 1998. Pg. 305\u00a0\u21a9
\"Therefore, rather than being an oxymoron, \"libertarian socialism\" indicates that true socialism must be libertarian and that a libertarian who is not a socialist is a phoney. As true socialists oppose wage labour, they must also oppose the state for the same reasons. Similarly, libertarians must oppose wage labour for the same reasons they must oppose the state.\" \"I1. Isn't libertarian socialism an oxymoron\". Archived 16 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine. In An Anarchist FAQ.\u00a0\u21a9
\"So, libertarian socialism rejects the idea of state ownership and control of the economy, along with the state as such. Through workers' self-management it proposes to bring an end to authority, exploitation, and hierarchy in production.\" \"I1. Isn't libertarian socialism an oxymoron\" in Archived 16 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine An Anarchist FAQ\u00a0\u21a9\u21a9
\" ...preferring a system of popular self governance via networks of decentralized, local voluntary, participatory, cooperative associations. Roderick T. Long. \"Toward a libertarian theory of class.\" Social Philosophy and Policy. Volume 15. Issue 02. Summer 1998. Pg. 305\u00a0\u21a9
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Authored by Jared Wesley
Archived 2025-02-25
I\u2019m going to be blunt in this piece. As a resident of Alberta and someone trained to recognize threats to democracy, I have an obligation to be.
The United Conservative Party is an authoritarian force in Alberta. Full stop.
I don\u2019t come by this argument lightly. It\u2019s based on extensive evidence that I present below, followed by some concrete actions Albertans can take to push back against creeping authoritarianism.
Drawing the line
There\u2019s no hard-and-fast line between democracy and authoritarianism. Just ask people from autocracies: you don\u2019t simply wake up one day under arbitrary rule.
They\u2019re more like opposite sides of a spectrum, ranging from full participation by all citizens in policy-making at one end (democracy) to full control by a leader and their cadre on the other (authoritarianism).
Clearly, Alberta politics sit somewhere between these two poles. It is neither an ideal Greek city-state nor a totalitarian hellscape.
The question is: How much of a shift toward authoritarianism are we willing to accept? Where do we draw the line between politics as usual and anti-democratic activities?
At a bare minimum, we should expect our leaders to respect the rule of law, constitutional checks and balances, electoral integrity and the distribution of power.
Unfortunately, the United Conservative Party has shown disregard for these principles. They\u2019ve breached them so many times that citizens can be forgiven for being desensitized. But it is important to take stock so we can determine how far we\u2019ve slid.
Here\u2019s a breakdown of those principles.
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By these standards, Alberta is not looking so healthy these days.
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"},{"location":"archive/ucp-threat-democracy-wesley/#checks-and-balances","title":"Checks and Balances","text":"Leaders should also abide by the Constitution, including:
The UCP government has demonstrated a passing familiarity and respect for these checks on its authority.
In democracies, leaders respect the will of the people.
That includes:
Again, the UCP\u2019s record is abysmal.
More broadly, our leaders should respect the importance of pluralism, a system where power is dispersed among multiple groups or institutions, ensuring no single entity holds too much control. This includes:
The UCP has little respect for these principles, either.
Combined, these measures have steadily concentrated power in the hands of the premier and their entourage. The province has become less democratic and more authoritarian in the process.
What we can do about it
The first step in pushing back against this creeping authoritarianism is recognizing that this is not politics as usual. Despite the government\u2019s disinformation, these new measures are unprecedented. Alberta\u2019s drift toward authoritarianism has not happened overnight, but we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to the shift.
We should continue to call out instances of anti-democratic behaviour and tie them to the growing narrative I\u2019ve presented above. Crowing about each individual misdeed doesn\u2019t help if they don\u2019t fit into the broader storyline. Arguing over whether the UCP is acting in authoritarian or fascist ways also isn\u2019t helpful. This isn\u2019t about semantics; it\u2019s about action.
This also isn\u2019t a left/right or partisan issue. Conservatives ought to be as concerned about the UCP\u2019s trajectory as progressives. Politicians of all stripes should be speaking out and Albertans should welcome all who do. Opposition to the UCP\u2019s backsliding can\u2019t be monolithic. We need many voices, including those within the government caucus and UCP base.
In this sense, it\u2019s important to avoid engaging in whataboutism over which side is more authoritarian. It\u2019s important to acknowledge when any government strays from democratic principles. Finding common ground with folks from across the spectrum about what we expect from our governments is key.
Some Albertans are organizing protests related to specific anti-democratic moves by the UCP government, while others are marshalling general resistance events and movements. With numerous public sector unions in negotiations with the government this year, there is a potential for a groundswell of public education and mobilization in the months ahead. Supporting these organizations and movements is an important way to signal your opposition to the UCP government\u2019s democratic backsliding.
Show up, amplify their messages, and donate if you can. Protests work, but only if everyday Albertans support the causes.
Calling or writing your MLA also helps. Don\u2019t use a form letter or script; those are easily ignored. But staffers I\u2019ve interviewed confirm that for every original phone call they receive, they assume at least a dozen other constituents are just as upset; you can double that for every letter. Inundating UCP MLA offices, in particular, can have a real impact on government caucus discussions. We know that governments make policy U-turns when enough caucus members threaten a revolt. On the flip side, silence from constituents is taken as complicity with the government\u2019s agenda.
Talking to friends, family and neighbours about your concerns is equally important. It lets people know that others are also fed up, helping communities break out of the \u201cspiral of silence\u201d that tends to hold citizens back from advocating for their interests. Encouraging them to write or call their MLA, or to join you at a rally, would also help.
Elections are the ultimate source of accountability for governments. While Albertans will likely have to wait until May 2027 for another provincial campaign, there are some interim events that allow folks to voice their concerns.
None of what I\u2019ve suggested starts or ends with spouting off on social media. Our digital world is full of slacktivists who talk a good game on Facebook or X but whose actual impact is more performance than action.
It\u2019s also not enough to say \u201cthe courts will handle it.\u201d Many of the UCP\u2019s moves sit in a constitutional grey area. Even if the courts were to intervene, they\u2019d be a backstop, at best. Investigations, let alone court cases, take months if not years to conclude. And the standard of proof is high. In the meantime, the damage to individuals, groups and our democratic norms would have been done already.
In short, if Albertans want to push back against the UCP\u2019s creeping authoritarianism, they\u2019ll need to get off the couch. Make a commitment and a plan to stand up. Democracy demands that of us, from time to time.
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Phone: 403-762-1251
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Imagine: your Sunday morning begins with a coffee made in a French press you checked out from the Cookware Library down the block. You may swap it out for a teapot in a couple of weeks. You head out the door with some tennis racquets you borrowed from the Sport & Fitness Library to volley with a friend. Afterwards, you finally get around to hanging those new prints you got from the Art Library and you use tools from the Tool Library to do it. In the evening you checkout a giant Jenga set and an outdoor Bluetooth speaker to bring to your friend\u2019s picnic.
THE FIVE LAWS OF A LIBRARY ECONOMY
Modern library science has five key tenets that would also guide a future library economy. Developed by S. R. Ranganathan in his 1931 book, \u201cFive Laws of Library Science,\u201d these concepts are some of the most influential in today\u2019s library economy. Let\u2019s discuss these laws and how they would apply to the broader library economy.
1. Books are for use
While preservation of certain original works is important, the purpose of a book is to be read. More broadly, a hammer\u2019s purpose is to hammer, a tent to shelter, a children\u2019s toy to be played with. Americans buy a lot of stuff, much of which spends more time idle in storage than in productive use. This law guides libraries to prioritize access, equality of service, and focus on the little things that prevent people from active use of the library\u2019s collection.
2. Every person has their book
This law guides libraries to serve a wide range of patrons and to develop a broad collection to serve a wide variety of needs and wants. The librarian should not be judgmental or prejudiced regarding what specific patrons choose to borrow. This extends to aesthetics of products, ergonomics, accessibility, topics, and the types of products themselves.
3. Every book has its reader
This law states that everything has its place in the library, and guides libraries to keep pieces of the collection, even if only a very small demographic might choose to read them. This prevents a tyranny of the majority in access to resources.
4. Save the time of the reader
This law guides libraries to focus on making resources easy to locate quickly and efficiently. This involves employing systems of categorization that save the time of patrons and library employees.
5. The library is a growing organism
This law posits that libraries should always be growing in the quantity of items in the library and in the collection\u2019s overall quality through gradual replacement and updating as materials are worn down. Growth today can also mean adoption of digital access tools.
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS
The most obvious benefit of a library economy is resource conservation. At the heart of many of our environmental problems is a rate of extraction of raw materials from our earth that exceeds our ability to regenerate. Through the library economy model, it is feasible to decrease the amount of raw materials like metals, minerals, and timber we extract and consume with neutral or positive impact on quality of life. This would have a cascading positive effect on ecosystems, as less land is required for resource extraction and less chemical waste is created in the processes of creating plastics and other synthetic materials.
This model further encourages waste minimization and a circular economy where goods are designed to be reused and recycled. Libraries looking to purchase products for their collection will have the ability to prioritize quality craftsmanship, ethical production, reparability, and durability. This will reward manufacturers and companies who create sturdy and well-made goods while disincentivizing planned obsolescence, throwaway culture, and products that are impossible to repair on one\u2019s own. This will further decrease raw material extraction and will significantly reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills, including electronic waste materials that can seriously contaminate nearby soil and water.
Finally, the library economy could significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for fossil fuels in the manufacturing and transportation of new goods. The industrial sector made up 23% of total U.S. GHG emissions in 2022, and since many industrial processes cannot yet feasibly be done without fossil fuels, it is vital that we find ways to reduce total industrial production.[1]
Real world evidence backs up the intuitive environmental and social benefits of a library economy. The Tool Library in Buffalo, New York, recorded over 14,000 transactions in 2022 and saved the community $580,000 in new products that would have otherwise been purchased for short-term use.[2] The non-profit also partnered with the City of Buffalo Department of Recycling to create pop-up \u201cRepair Cafes\u201d that diverted 4,229 pounds of waste from landfill by teaching residents how to repair their items, demonstrating the potential of complementary programming in library economies .[3] Borrowers at the UK Library of Things have saved more than 110 tons of e-waste from going to landfills, prevented 220 tons of carbon emissions, and saved a total of \u00a3600,000 by borrowing rather than buying since the library\u2019s inception in 2014.[4] Information on the storage space, money, and waste saved is made available for each item borrowed.[5] The Turku City Library in Finland even has an electric car available for borrow.[6] In short, people are spending less, doing more, preventing massive amounts of carbon emissions, and reducing the need for needless resource extraction. An expanded nationwide or global library economy would be a multi-faceted boon for the health of the environment.
LEGAL FRAMEWORKS FOR A LIBRARY ECONOMY
Existing law in the United States can enable the development and expansion of a library economy centered around efficient and communal resource management. In fact, limited versions of a library of things are fairly prevalent in existing library systems in many states. In Washington, D.C., the library operates a makerspace where specialized tools like 3D printers and sewing machines can be used but not brought home. The library\u2019s 2022 proposed rulemaking creating a tools library policy, along with its existing makerspace structure, offers a glimpse of the core elements of any library of things\u2019 legal framework.[7] First, waivers are required from all borrowers in order to limit the library\u2019s liability if any injuries or accidents occur while using something from the collection.[8] Release agreements indemnify third parties and include an assumption of risk clause. Second, the proposed tool library policy[9] establishes how borrowing works. The policy is built to incentivize respectful and responsible use of the collection by setting a default borrowing term of seven days, which can be renewed two additional times if the tool is not on hold. The library also lays out a fee structure for late returns or damage to tools. Borrowing privileges are suspended until tools are returned and fees are paid.
The ancient concept of usufruct could \u00a0also be modernized to manage communal resources like nature areas, fruit and vegetable gardens, or public lands that should be enjoyed by the public without the need of individual waivers and bureaucracy. Usufruct, found in civil law systems, is the \u201cright of enjoying a thing, the property of which is vested in another, and to draw from the same all the profit, utility, and advantage which it may produce, provided it be without altering the substance of the thing.\u201d[10] Legislation creating this limited right for certain communal resources could allow people to eat fruit off of a park tree or utilize fleets of electric cars to profit off of ride-share services, so long as they don\u2019t degrade or overuse the resource such that it is no longer communal or productive. This creates a legal right enforceable by anyone who finds overly extractive resource use occurring.
Additional changes could help institutionalize the library economy. Zoning laws could be revised to allocate public spaces specifically for the purpose of sharing resources. Land use plans could incorporate unique designations for Libraries of Things to ensure accessibility based on proximity to transit, set neighborhood requirements for libraries, or even create library districts in which access to various libraries are centralized. Like all zoning and placement decisions, equity and true community buy-in are essential.
ENSURING EQUITY AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
While the library economy has numerous benefits, it is necessary to address and minimize potential risks. The library economy would prove to be cheaper, but economic justice and racial equity are still serious concerns. A study on Portland, Oregon\u2019s community garden initiative provides an applicable structure to understand barriers to active participation that can inform the specific policies and regulations around the creation of Libraries of Things.[11]
This diagram shows the barriers that researchers found kept community members from participating in the program.[12] These barriers fall into three categories: structural, social, and cultural. Lawmakers, administrators, and staff would be wise to analyze these areas when creating a library and setting relevant guidelines and policies.
Two key issues illustrate the importance of potential barriers and their effect on equity of access and use. First, monetary penalties should be only imposed for very high-value things and should be used with caution. The specter of militant collections or unjust financial penalties could deter borrowing for marginalized groups and the poor, who already know the histories of predatory government fees and fines. Universal participation by communities is essential to avoid perpetuating the ongoing reality in the United States that it is more expensive to be poor and it\u2019s cheaper to be rich.
Second, cultural barriers including language accessibility and a welcoming, diverse staff hired from the community will keep these libraries from becoming the seeds of gentrification. Research from the Portland study showed that lack of inclusionary space was the highest-reported barrier to participation in interviews with residents.[13] The study highlights an example where a community organizer threw a block party at a newly opened community garden and actively invited black community members to celebrate, connect, and learn about the space.[14] This was highly effective in getting community participation and could be a model for library launches.
CONCLUSION
The library economy offers an innovative but familiar approach to resource management. By expanding existing library systems and incentivizing non-profit libraries of things we can address the environmental crisis through legal avenues, fostering a sustainable and equitable future. A library economy will let us do more with less, improve the environment, and possibly make the world a bit more equitable in the process. What will you borrow?
[1] EPA, EPA 430-R-23-002, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990\u20132021 (2023), \u00a0https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2021.
[2] The Tool Library, 2022 Annual Report 3 (2023), https://thetoollibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/TL_AnnualReport_2022_compressed.pdf.
[3] Id. at 11.
[4] Library of Things, https://www.libraryofthings.co.uk (last visited Oct. 21, 2023).
[5] Id.
[6] Turku Abo, Borrow An Electric Car With A Library Card \u2013 Turku City Library Makes An Electric Vehicle Available to Everyone, as the First Library in the World, Turku City Leisure Service Bulletin (4.5.2023, 09:00), \u00a0https://www.epressi.com/tiedotteet/kulttuuri-ja-taide/borrow-an-electric-car-with-a-library-card-turku-city-library-makes-an-electric-vehicle-available-to-everyone-as-the-first-library-in-the-world.html.
[7] Tool Library in the Labs Policy, D.C. Mun. Reg. 19-8 (proposed Sept. 28, 2022) (to be codified at 19 D.C.F.R \u00a7823), https://www.dclibrary.org/library-policies/tool-library-labs-policy.
[8] The Labs at DC Public Library, Waiver and Release of Liability, 1https://dcgov.seamlessdocs.com/f/LABSParticipantRelease (last visited Oct. 22, 2023).
[9] Id.
[10] Usufruct,\u00a0Black\u2019s Law Dictionary\u00a0(11th ed. 2019).
[11] Jullian Michael Schrup, Barriers to Community Gardening in Portland, OR (Portland State Univ. 2019), https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.786.
[12] Id. at 18.
[13] Id. at 26.
[14] Id. at 34.
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I\u2019m going to be blunt in this piece. As a resident of Alberta and someone trained to recognize threats to democracy, I have an obligation to be.
The United Conservative Party is an authoritarian force in Alberta. Full stop.
I don\u2019t come by this argument lightly. It\u2019s based on extensive evidence that I present below, followed by some concrete actions Albertans can take to push back against creeping authoritarianism.
Drawing the line
There\u2019s no hard-and-fast line between democracy and authoritarianism. Just ask people from autocracies: you don\u2019t simply wake up one day under arbitrary rule.
They\u2019re more like opposite sides of a spectrum, ranging from full participation by all citizens in policy-making at one end (democracy) to full control by a leader and their cadre on the other (authoritarianism).
Clearly, Alberta politics sit somewhere between these two poles. It is neither an ideal Greek city-state nor a totalitarian hellscape.
The question is: How much of a shift toward authoritarianism are we willing to accept? Where do we draw the line between politics as usual and anti-democratic activities?
At a bare minimum, we should expect our leaders to respect the rule of law, constitutional checks and balances, electoral integrity and the distribution of power.
Unfortunately, the United Conservative Party has shown disregard for these principles. They\u2019ve breached them so many times that citizens can be forgiven for being desensitized. But it is important to take stock so we can determine how far we\u2019ve slid.
Here\u2019s a breakdown of those principles.
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By these standards, Alberta is not looking so healthy these days.
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Leaders should also abide by the Constitution, including:
The UCP government has demonstrated a passing familiarity and respect for these checks on its authority.
3. Electoral Integrity
In democracies, leaders respect the will of the people.
That includes:
Again, the UCP\u2019s record is abysmal.
4. Distribution of Power
More broadly, our leaders should respect the importance of pluralism, a system where power is dispersed among multiple groups or institutions, ensuring no single entity holds too much control. This includes:
The UCP has little respect for these principles, either.
Combined, these measures have steadily concentrated power in the hands of the premier and their entourage. The province has become less democratic and more authoritarian in the process.
What we can do about it
The first step in pushing back against this creeping authoritarianism is recognizing that this is not politics as usual. Despite the government\u2019s disinformation, these new measures are unprecedented. Alberta\u2019s drift toward authoritarianism has not happened overnight, but we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to the shift.
We should continue to call out instances of anti-democratic behaviour and tie them to the growing narrative I\u2019ve presented above. Crowing about each individual misdeed doesn\u2019t help if they don\u2019t fit into the broader storyline. Arguing over whether the UCP is acting in authoritarian or fascist ways also isn\u2019t helpful. This isn\u2019t about semantics; it\u2019s about action.
This also isn\u2019t a left/right or partisan issue. Conservatives ought to be as concerned about the UCP\u2019s trajectory as progressives. Politicians of all stripes should be speaking out and Albertans should welcome all who do. Opposition to the UCP\u2019s backsliding can\u2019t be monolithic. We need many voices, including those within the government caucus and UCP base.
In this sense, it\u2019s important to avoid engaging in whataboutism over which side is more authoritarian. It\u2019s important to acknowledge when any government strays from democratic principles. Finding common ground with folks from across the spectrum about what we expect from our governments is key.
Some Albertans are organizing protests related to specific anti-democratic moves by the UCP government, while others are marshalling general resistance events and movements. With numerous public sector unions in negotiations with the government this year, there is a potential for a groundswell of public education and mobilization in the months ahead. Supporting these organizations and movements is an important way to signal your opposition to the UCP government\u2019s democratic backsliding.
Show up, amplify their messages, and donate if you can. Protests work, but only if everyday Albertans support the causes.
Calling or writing your MLA also helps. Don\u2019t use a form letter or script; those are easily ignored. But staffers I\u2019ve interviewed confirm that for every original phone call they receive, they assume at least a dozen other constituents are just as upset; you can double that for every letter. Inundating UCP MLA offices, in particular, can have a real impact on government caucus discussions. We know that governments make policy U-turns when enough caucus members threaten a revolt. On the flip side, silence from constituents is taken as complicity with the government\u2019s agenda.
Talking to friends, family and neighbours about your concerns is equally important. It lets people know that others are also fed up, helping communities break out of the \u201cspiral of silence\u201d that tends to hold citizens back from advocating for their interests. Encouraging them to write or call their MLA, or to join you at a rally, would also help.
Elections are the ultimate source of accountability for governments. While Albertans will likely have to wait until May 2027 for another provincial campaign, there are some interim events that allow folks to voice their concerns.
None of what I\u2019ve suggested starts or ends with spouting off on social media. Our digital world is full of slacktivists who talk a good game on Facebook or X but whose actual impact is more performance than action.
It\u2019s also not enough to say \u201cthe courts will handle it.\u201d Many of the UCP\u2019s moves sit in a constitutional grey area. Even if the courts were to intervene, they\u2019d be a backstop, at best. Investigations, let alone court cases, take months if not years to conclude. And the standard of proof is high. In the meantime, the damage to individuals, groups and our democratic norms would have been done already.
In short, if Albertans want to push back against the UCP\u2019s creeping authoritarianism, they\u2019ll need to get off the couch. Make a commitment and a plan to stand up. Democracy demands that of us, from time to time.
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Why do we let them sell our clear blue sky?
What profit is there to poisoned water?
Why must we pay to eat?
Why do empty homes exist while people freeze?
What if you could travel anywhere in the province and arrive to a warm bed without a worry?
What if you could walk into any grocer and take what you needed for that nights meal?
What if every spring, pond, lake, and rivers water was clean and clear?
What if we had more days of breathable air?
Freedom is more than a word. It is something we experience and a responsibility. The more we are able to allow people the experience of a free and fair life, the greater our society will be.
True liberty comes from ensuring everyone has access to their basic needs without coercion. Providing resources for human needs frees us all. Free is freedom; they are one and the same.
Man is only as free as his stomach is hungry.\nWhen communities self-organize to provide for each other's needs - whether it's food, shelter, or clean water - they demonstrate that we don't need hierarchical systems to take care of each other. This mutual aid approach has deep roots in various political philosophies that prioritize human needs over profit. People have organized themselves like this for millenia and their are more people organizing themselves to provide for the human needs for all then ever before in human history.
Clean water for all or champagne for the 1%?\nThroughout most of human history, access to basic needs was considered a communal right. It's only under modern society that we've normalized putting a price tag on survival itself. You can read about the history of this transformation through the wiki starting points in the archive.
Why must the hungry produce profits for the boss before they can eat?\nAs we work to make resources freely available in Alberta, we're participating in a long tradition of communities taking care of their own, challenging the notion that basic human needs should be commodified for profit. Freedom isn't just a word - it's access to the basic needs and rights that let everyone thrive. Here's your guide to making freedom real in Alberta.
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Think About It
\"Freedom is not an abstract idea. It's clean water, safe housing, healthy food, and the right to think and speak freely. It's what we build together.\"
Because freedom is something we do, not just something we say.
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\ud83c\udf1f Bounty reward: Your name in the hall of fame + helping build real freedom
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Communications Policy
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Energy Policy
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Offers food hampers for those in need.
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Phone: 780-385-0810
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Address: Fort Saskatchewan 11226 88 Avenue 11226 88 Avenue , Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta T8L 3W5
Phone: 780-998-4099
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Address: Fort Saskatchewan 11226 88 Avenue 11226 88 Avenue , Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta T8L 3W5
Phone: 780-998-4099
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Address: Okotoks 220 Stockton Avenue 220 Stockton Avenue , Okotoks, Alberta T1S 1B2
Phone: 403-651-6629
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Address: Hinton 124 Market Street 124 Market Street , Hinton, Alberta T7V 2A2
Phone: 780-865-6256
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Phone: 780-624-2370
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Address: 9709 98 Avenue , Peace River, Alberta T8S 1J3
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Address: Coronation 5002 Municipal Road 5002 Municipal Road , Coronation, Alberta T0C 1C0
Phone: 403-578-3020
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Address: 20 East Lake Way , Airdrie, Alberta T4A 2J3
Phone: 403-948-0063
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Address: Fort McKay Road , Fort McKay, Alberta T0P 1C0
Phone: 780-828-4312
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Address: 4944 53 Street , Redwater, Alberta T0A 2W0
Phone: 780-942-2061
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Address: 4524 54 Street , Camrose, Alberta T4V 1X8
Phone: 780-679-3220
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Address: 4829 50 Street , Camrose, Alberta T4V 1P6
Phone: 780-679-3220
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Address: Leduc 6051 47 Street 6051 47 Street , Leduc, Alberta T9E 7A5
Phone: 780-986-5333
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Address: 20 East Lake Way , Airdrie, Alberta T4A 2J3
Phone: 403-948-0063
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Address: 9802 103 Street , Sexsmith, Alberta T0H 3C0
Phone: 780-568-4345
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Address: 4620 53 Avenue , Vermilion, Alberta T9X 1S2
Phone: 780-853-5161
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Address: Vegreville 5129 52 Avenue 5129 52 Avenue , Vegreville, Alberta T9C 1M2
Phone: 780-208-6002
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Address: 219 Main Street , Elnora, Alberta T0M 0Y0
Phone: 403-773-3920
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Address: 4620 53 Avenue , Vermilion, Alberta T9X 1S2
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Address: 4917 Hankin Street , Thorsby, Alberta T0C 2P0 5088 1 Avenue S, New Sarepta, Alberta T0B 3M0 4901 50 Avenue , Calmar, Alberta T0C 0V0 5212 50 Avenue , Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0
Phone: 780-848-2828
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Address: Leduc 6051 47 Street 6051 47 Street , Leduc, Alberta T9E 7A5
Phone: 780-986-5333
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Phone: 780-743-4135
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Address: 141 Alberta Drive , Fort McMurray, Alberta T9H 1R2
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Address: Vulcan 105B 3 Avenue 105B 3 Avenue S, Vulcan, Alberta T0L 2B0
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Address: 4620 53 Avenue , Vermilion, Alberta T9X 1S2
Phone: 780-853-5161
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Address: 10010 Centennial Drive , Fort McMurray, Alberta T9H 4A2
Phone: 780-743-1125
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Address: 10010 Centennial Drive , Fort McMurray, Alberta T9H 4A2
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Address: 4917 52 Street , Rocky Mountain House, Alberta T4T 1B4
Phone: 403-845-2788
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Address: 110 Bear Street , Banff, Alberta T1L 1A1
Phone: 403-762-1251
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Address: 455 Cougar Street , Banff, Alberta T1L 1A3
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Phone: 780-674-3341
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Address: Barrhead 5115 45 Street 5115 45 Street , Barrhead, Alberta T7N 1J2
Phone: 780-674-3341
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Address: 3343 49 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta T3E 6M6
Phone: 403-246-1804
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Address: Calgary 1731 29 Street SW 1731 29 Street SW, Calgary, Alberta T3C 1M6
Phone: 403-930-2700
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Address: Calgary 39 4 Street NE 39 4 Street NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 3R6
Phone: 403-264-1155
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Address: 1840 Ranchlands Way NW, Calgary, Alberta T3G 1R4 Calgary 3303 17 Avenue SE 3303 17 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2A 0R2 7904 43 Avenue NW, Calgary, Alberta T3B 4P9
Phone: 403-204-8280
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Address: Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M5
Phone: 403-250-0319
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Address: Calgary 112 16 Avenue NE 112 16 Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 1J5
Phone: 1-800-563-6106
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Address: Calgary 4920 17 Avenue SE 4920 17 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2A 0V4
Phone: 403-455-5792
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Address: Calgary 4869 Hubalta Road SE 4869 Hubalta Road SE, Calgary, Alberta T2B 1T5
Phone: 403-474-3237
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Address: 5000 11 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2H 2Y5
Phone: 403-253-2055 (Hamper Request Line)
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Address: 1840 38 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2B 0Z3
Phone: 403-273-1050 (Call or Text)
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Address: Calgary 221 18 Avenue SW 221 18 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta T2S 0C2
Phone: 403-218-5500
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Address: 1 Dermot Baldwin Way SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0P8
Phone: 403-266-3600
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Address: 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary, Alberta T3E 6K6
Phone: 403-440-6269
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Address: Calgary 316 7 Avenue SE 316 7 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 0J2
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Address: Calgary 3961 52 Avenue 3961 52 Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta T3J 0J7
Phone: 403-466-6367
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Address: Calgary, 5510 26 Avenue NE 5510 26 Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta T1Y 6S1
Phone: 403-280-9500
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Address: 100 - 5115 17 Avenue SE, Calgary, Alberta T2A 0V8
Phone: 403-410-1160
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Address: 77 Deerpoint Road SE, Calgary, Alberta T2J 6W5
Phone: 403-278-8263
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Address: 5000 11 Street SE, Calgary, Alberta T2H 2Y5
Phone: 403-253-2055 (Hamper Requests)
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Address: Calgary 1725 30 Avenue NE 1725 30 Avenue NE, Calgary, Alberta T2E 7P6
Phone: 403-291-3179 (Office)
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Address: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Phone: 403-220-8599
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Address: Calgary, Alberta T2P 2M5
Phone: 403-538-7383
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Address: 10407 97 Street , Clairmont, Alberta T8X 5E8
Phone: 780-567-2843
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Address: 4620 53 Avenue , Vermilion, Alberta T9X 1S2
Phone: 780-853-5161
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Address: Sherwood Park, Alberta T8H 2T4
Phone: 780-449-5353 (Messages Only)
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Address: Sherwood Park 255 Kaska Road 255 Kaska Road , Sherwood Park, Alberta T8A 4E8
Phone: 780-449-6413
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Address: Edson 4511 5 Avenue 4511 5 Avenue , Edson, Alberta T7E 1B9
Phone: 780-725-3185
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Address: 4620 53 Avenue , Vermilion, Alberta T9X 1S2
Phone: 780-853-5161
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Address: Edson 4511 5 Avenue 4511 5 Avenue , Edson, Alberta T7E 1B9
Phone: 780-725-3185
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Address: Red Deer 6002 54 Avenue 6002 54 Avenue , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 4M8
Phone: 1-888-448-4673
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Address: 4837 54 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2G5
Phone: 403-346-2251
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Address: Red Deer 4630 61 Street 4630 61 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2R2
Phone: 403-347-2210
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Address: 4837 54 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2G5
Phone: 403-346-2251
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Address: Red Deer 7429 49 Avenue 7429 49 Avenue , Red Deer, Alberta T4P 1N2
Phone: 403-346-1505 (Hamper Request)
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Address: 4837 54 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2G5
Phone: 403-346-2251
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Address: Red Deer 5014 49 Street 5014 49 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1V5
Phone: 403-341-4470
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Address: 100 College Boulevard , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 5H5
Phone: 403-342-3200
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Address: Red Deer 4935 51 Street 4935 51 Street , Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2A8
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Our right to swing our fists ends at others' noses, and our right to honk our horns ends at others' ears. We can figure this out - it's not that complicated.
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King did not comment after his sentencing due to bail conditions for outstanding perjury and obstruction of justice charges. His lawyer Natasha Calvinho called the sentencing \"very balanced.\"
\"If Mr. King was sentenced to 10 years in jail, which is what the Crown was asking, they would have essentially been making him a political prisoner. They would have been sentencing Mr. King for the sum total of everything that was done by every individual in the Freedom Convoy,\" Calvinho said.
King was found guilty on five of nine charges in November, including mischief and disobeying a court order, for his role in the 2022 protest that took over downtown Ottawa for three weeks.
Justice Charles Hackland said King must remain at his residence during his house arrest, except for time spent on court appointments and community service and three hours on Monday afternoons to \"get necessities for life.\"
Hackland also told King he must not return to Ottawa except for court appearances and must stay away from six other convoy leaders, including Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.
Crown prosecutor Moiz Karimjee called for the maximum sentence for mischief \u2014 10 years \u2014 arguing this was \"the worst case\" of mischief.
Hackland disagreed, citing a lack of aggravating factors like protest actions specifically targeting vulnerable populations.
Hackland said the convoy protest could easily have degenerated into widespread violence and property damage and described King as a \"positive influence\" due to his repeated calls on social media for participants to remain non-violent.
The judge said King's sentence needs to be in line with mischief sentences received by other convoy protest participants in Ottawa, Windsor, Ont. and Coutts, Alta. Most of those sentences ranged from three to six months.
Hackland said King held additional responsibility due to being a leadership figure in the protest, but not enough to warrant a long sentence.
King issued an apology for his role in the protest and its impact on the residents of Ottawa during the pre-sentencing hearing, which Hackland characterized as \"emotional\" and \"sincere.\"
Calvinho said King planned to serve his house arrest back home in Alberta.
Karimjee declined further comment after the sentencing.
Source: Ottawa Citizen
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met twice with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in Florida this weekend to try and persuade him not to impose hefty tariffs on Canadian goods.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith visited Mar-a-Lago, the Florida home of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, on Saturday.
Smith confirmed the visit in a social media post Sunday morning, in which she said she and Trump had a \"friendly and constructive conversation.\"
\"I emphasized the mutual importance of the U.S.-Canadian energy relationship, and specifically, how hundreds of thousands of American jobs are supported by energy exports from Alberta,\" Smith's post said.
\"I was also able to have similar discussions with several key allies of the incoming administration and was encouraged to hear their support for a strong energy and security relationship with Canada.\"
Other social media posts showed Smith, along with Canadian celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary and psychologist and media personality Jordan Peterson, posing for photographs in the Palm Beach mansion.
O'Leary has\u00a0courted controversy recently by expressing support for the idea of an economic union between Canada and the U.S., an idea he has promised to raise with the incoming American president.
In December, Smith said she would attend Trump's inauguration ceremony in Washington on Jan. 20.
As well as attending the inauguration, Smith will be hosting several events in Washington and hopes to meet with energy groups, congresspeople, and various officials, according to a spokesperson.
That announcement came in the wake of threats from Trump, who has said he would impose 25 per cent tariffs if Canada and Mexico do not enact measures to tackle illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the United States.
Alberta responded to those threats by introducing plans to invest $29 million to create a border patrol team under the command of the Alberta Sheriffs.
Featuring 51 officers, as well as patrol dogs, surveillance drones and narcotics analyzers, the team is designed to intercept illegal attempts to cross the border, and attempts to bring drugs or firearms across the international boundary with the U.S.
Other provincial leaders are approaching the issue differently. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has spoken out against the tariffs in international media, as well as Trump's threat to make Canada the 51st U.S. state.
WATCH | Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Trump's tariff ideas aren't 'realistic':
Ontario to enhance security at U.S. border as Trump tariff threat looms
The Ontario government has enhanced security measures along its border with the United States as part of its response to tariff threats from Donald Trump. As CBC\u2019s Shawn Jeffords reports, Ontario Premier Doug Ford made several appearances on international media to make his case.
Ford last week pitched an \"renewed strategic alliance\" for\u00a0Canada and the U.S. on energy. Ontario and Manitoba have also launched new border security measures.
Ford pitches ambitious energy plan in effort to stave off Trump tariffs
Ontario launches new border security measures in wake of Trump tariff threats
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Trump's talk about Canada becoming the 51st state is intended to distract people on both sides of the border from the real issue\u00a0\u2014 the threat of 25 per cent tariffs.
\"[Trump] likes to keep people a little off balance. The 51st state \u2014 that's not going to happen. It's just a non-starter,\" Trudeau said.\u00a0
\"Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian, but people are now talking about that as opposed to talking about, for example,\u00a0the impact of 25 per cent\u00a0tariffs on steel and aluminum coming into the United States\u00a0\u2014 on energy, whether it's oil and gas or electricity. I mean, no American wants to pay 25 per cent\u00a0more for electricity or oil and gas coming in from Canada. And that's something that I think people need to pay a little more attention to.\"
Smith has previously said she doesn't support tariffs on either Canadian or U.S. goods because the result makes life more expensive for everyday Canadians and Americans.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at Trump's Florida home Mar-a-Lago on Saturday. (Danielle Smith/X)
According to Mount Royal University political scientist Lori Williams, if Smith is representing Canada's interests and presenting a united front with other provincial and federal leaders, then visits like this one to\u00a0Mar-a-Lago can bear fruit.\u00a0
\"When she's speaking for Canada, for Canada's interest, she can be quite effective and she can reach an audience that some others cannot,\" Williams told CBC News.
The problems begin, Williams said, when the premier speaks only for Alberta.
\"If ... the message is my province and its industries are most important and I don't like the federal government and I don't care about the industries in other provinces, if that's the sort of thing that's going on, then that's going to be counterproductive. It's not going to help Canada. It's actually going to put us in a weaker, rather than in a stronger position.\"
Smith says Alberta is taking a diplomatic approach to attempt to avoid Trump's tariffs on behalf of all\u00a0Canadians.
\"I will continue to engage in constructive dialogue and diplomacy with the incoming administration and elected federal and state officials from both parties, and will do all I can to further Alberta's and Canada's interests,\" Smith's Sunday post said.
Source: CBC News
"},{"location":"freedumb/separatist-billboard-controversy/","title":"Alberta Separatist Group's Billboard Campaign Backfires","text":"The controversial billboard along Highway 2 near Red Deer sparked widespread criticism and mockery on social media. Photo: Edmonton Journal
A recent billboard campaign by the Alberta Independence Coalition (AIC) meant to promote separatist sentiment has instead sparked widespread ridicule and criticism across the province, with marketing experts calling it \"a masterclass in how not to do political messaging.\"
The billboard, erected along Highway 2 near Red Deer, contained multiple grammatical errors and what critics called \"confused messaging\" that seemed to contradict its own separatist goals.
\"The irony is almost poetic,\" said Dr. Sarah Martinez, a political communications professor at the University of Alberta. \"In attempting to demonstrate Alberta's capability for independence, they've demonstrated precisely why we need good editors.\"
AIC spokesperson James Wilson defended the campaign, stating that \"minor typographical errors\" shouldn't detract from their message. \"The point is about Alberta's future, not grammar,\" Wilson said in a written statement.
However, social media response has been overwhelmingly negative, with #BillboardFail trending provincially for over 48 hours. Local businesses have joined in the commentary, with one Edmonton marketing firm offering the group \"free proofreading services for all future campaigns.\"
The Alberta Chamber of Commerce expressed concern about potential economic impacts. \"When you're trying to position Alberta as a serious player on the world stage, these kinds of amateur hour mistakes don't help,\" said Chamber President Michael Chang.
Cost estimates for the billboard campaign range between $15,000 and $20,000, according to industry experts. Several community organizations have pointed out that this money could have funded various local initiatives instead.
Mayor Andrea Thompson of Red Deer acknowledged the controversy but aimed to find a silver lining: \"If nothing else, it's brought Albertans together in a shared moment of - let's call it collaborative critique.\"
The AIC has announced they will be reviewing their marketing strategy and implementing a \"more rigorous approval process\" for future campaigns.
Local printing companies report a surge in spell-check service requests since the incident.
Source: Edmonton Journal
"},{"location":"freefrom/","title":"Free From: Because Freedom Isn't Just About Trucks and Taxes","text":"Freedom Fighter Wisdom
\"Your freedom to be a jerk ends where my freedom to live in peace begins.\"
"},{"location":"freefrom/#what-should-we-be-free-from","title":"What Should We Be Free From?","text":"Look, Alberta, we love our \"freedom\" rhetoric as much as we love complaining about Ottawa. But let's talk about the freedoms that actually matter - like being free from the stuff that makes life unnecessarily difficult for everyone who isn't a CEO's golden retriever.
"},{"location":"freefrom/#the-not-so-optional-freedoms","title":"The Not-So-Optional Freedoms","text":"Essential Freedoms From:
Plot Twist Alert
If your definition of freedom requires stepping on others, you're not a freedom fighter - you're just being what we Albertans technically call \"a bit of a hoser.\"
"},{"location":"freefrom/#the-real-deal","title":"The Real Deal","text":"Freedom FROM things is just as important as freedom TO do things. It's like having a massive truck - sure, you CAN park it across four spaces, but should you? (No. The answer is no.)
Pro Freedom Tip
If you think being free FROM discrimination limits your freedom, try being on the receiving end for a day. Suddenly those \"PC culture gone mad\" complaints seem a bit silly, eh?
"},{"location":"freefrom/#the-economic-argument","title":"The Economic Argument","text":"When people are free from oppression and interference: - Productivity soars (turns out happy people work better) - Innovation flourishes (diversity of thought actually helps) - Communities thrive (who knew treating people well would work?) - Everyone benefits (even the people who opposed it)
"},{"location":"freefrom/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Reality Check
Your freedom to do whatever you want isn't actually freedom - it's just privilege without responsibility.
"},{"location":"freefrom/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Being truly free means being free FROM the things that hold us back as much as being free TO do things. It's about creating a society where everyone can actually use their freedoms, not just the folks with the biggest trucks or the fattest wallets.
Get Involved
Ready to fight for real freedom? Start by examining your own biases - yes, even that one you think doesn't count. Then join us in making Alberta truly free for everyone, not just the loudest complainers.
Remember: Real freedom fighters work to free everyone, not just themselves. And yes, that includes the people you disagree with. (Shocking concept, we know.)
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/","title":"Freedom From Colonization","text":"Urgent: Ongoing Colonization
As Albertans, we must acknowledge that colonization isn't just historical - it's happening right now through policy decisions, resource allocation, and systemic discrimination. Through our tax dollars and silence, we enable ongoing colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. This systemic violence threatens everyone's freedom, and we must take responsibility for ending it.
Land Back Wisdom
\"You can't claim to love Alberta while disrespecting its original caretakers.\"
Call Rajan Sawhney, Minister of Indigenous Relations Email Minister of Indigenous Relations
Call Dan Williams, Minister of Municipal Affairs Email Minister of Municipal Affairs
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-colonization","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Colonization?","text":"Because somehow we went from \"this land is sacred\" to \"this land is for sale.\" Let's talk about why true freedom means acknowledging and addressing the ongoing impacts of colonization in Alberta.
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#our-current-reconciliation-system","title":"Our Current \"Reconciliation\" System","text":"The Colonial Experience Today
Plot Twist
Decolonization doesn't mean reversing time - it means creating a future where Indigenous peoples have their rightful place as nations within nations.
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#the-real-issues","title":"The Real Issues","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#land-and-resources","title":"Land and Resources","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think decolonization is too radical, let's remember that colonization was pretty radical too.
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#what-decolonized-systems-look-like","title":"What Decolonized Systems Look Like","text":"When we support decolonization: - Communities heal - Environments recover - Cultures flourish - Innovation includes traditional wisdom - Everyone benefits from Indigenous knowledge
Reality Check
Reconciliation without decolonization is just colonization with better PR.
"},{"location":"freefrom/colonization/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom from colonization means creating a future where Indigenous peoples can fully exercise their inherent rights and where treaties are honored as sacred agreements between nations. It means understanding that decolonization benefits everyone, not just Indigenous peoples.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to support decolonization? Let's start by: - Learning true history - Supporting Indigenous-led movements - Respecting treaty obligations - Backing land back initiatives - Amplifying Indigenous voices
Remember: Real freedom means freedom for everyone, and that includes freedom from the ongoing impacts of colonization.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/","title":"Freedom From Corporate Corruption","text":"Call Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Email Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration
Call Andrew Boitchenko, Minister of Tourism and Sport Email Minister of Tourism and Sport
Boardroom Wisdom
\"We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong. Trust us.\"
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-corporate-corruption","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Corporate Corruption?","text":"Because somehow we ended up in a world where corporations have more rights than people and less accountability than a toddler with a cookie jar. Let's talk about why our freedom shouldn't depend on a CEO's quarterly bonus.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Corporate Freedom Experience
Plot Twist
A truly free market requires rules - like how a free society needs laws. Otherwise, we're just living in corporate feudalism with better PR.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#common-corporate-freedom-violations","title":"Common Corporate Freedom Violations","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#worker-exploitation","title":"Worker Exploitation","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think corporate regulation kills jobs, let's see what corporate corruption does to our entire communities.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#the-economic-reality","title":"The Economic Reality","text":"When we fight corporate corruption: - Our small businesses can actually compete - Our workers keep more of their earnings - Our communities thrive - Our innovation serves people, not just profits - Our economy works for everyone, not just shareholders
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Our Rights vs Corporate \"Rights\": - Our privacy < Their data collection - Our health < Their profits - Our community < Their expansion plans - Our future < Their quarterly reports
Reality Check
Corporate freedom isn't the same as human freedom. One serves profit margins, the other serves actual humans.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corporate/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom from corporate corruption means having an economy that works for people, not just profits. It means understanding that corporations should serve our society, not rule it.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to fight corporate corruption? Let's start by supporting our local businesses, demanding transparency, and remembering that corporations aren't people - no matter what their lawyers say.
Remember: The free market should be free for all of us, not just those at the top. And freedom from corporate corruption is essential for our actual economic freedom.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/","title":"Freedom From Corruption","text":"Power Structure Wisdom
\"We investigated ourselves and found that we're all working exactly as intended.\"
Call Danielle Smith, Premier
Call Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety Email Minister of Public Safety
Call Mickey Amery, Minister of Justice Email Minister of Justice
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-corruption","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Corruption?","text":"Because somehow we ended up in a world where money talks louder than voters and corporate lobbyists have more access to politicians than we do to our own MLAs. Let's talk about why our democracy shouldn't depend on who has the biggest expense account.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Corruption Experience
Plot Twist
Being business-friendly shouldn't mean being citizen-hostile. And maybe, just maybe, our politicians should remember who they actually work for (hint: it's us).
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#common-corruption-patterns","title":"Common Corruption Patterns","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#political-corruption","title":"Political Corruption","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we're told \"that's just how things work,\" we're probably looking at corruption wearing a business suit.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#the-economic-reality","title":"The Economic Reality","text":"When we fight corruption: - Our democracy works for everyone - Our tax dollars serve the public - Our regulations protect people - Our services improve - Our trust in institutions grows
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Our Rights vs Special Interests: - Our votes < Their donations - Our needs < Their profits - Our future < Their quarterly reports - Our voices < Their lobbyists
Reality Check
A system that consistently favors the powerful isn't broken - it's corrupted. And corruption isn't a bug, it's a feature for those who benefit.
"},{"location":"freefrom/corruption/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom from corruption means having a democracy that works for all of us, not just the well-connected. It means understanding that our government should serve the people, not just those who can afford access.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to fight corruption? Let's start by: - Following the money - Supporting transparency initiatives - Backing anti-corruption reforms - Voting for clean government - Demanding accountability
Remember: Corruption thrives in darkness. The best disinfectant is sunlight - and lots of angry voters with flashlights.
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/","title":"Freedom From Discrimination","text":"Overheard in Alberta
\"I'm not discriminating, I just think everyone should be exactly like me!\"
Call Muhammad Yaseen, Associate Minister of Multiculturalism Email Associate Minister of Multiculturalism
Call Tanya Fir, Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women Email Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-discrimination","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Discrimination?","text":"Because surprisingly, treating each other like actual people isn't a radical leftist plot. Wild concept: maybe our worth as humans shouldn't depend on our backgrounds, beliefs, or whether we drive a Ram vs. F-150.
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"A Typical Discrimination Experience
Plot Twist
Our right to be jerks isn't actually a protected human right. Shocking, we know.
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we eliminate discrimination: - Our talent pools expand - Our innovation increases - Our productivity soars - Our communities thrive - We all win (even those who fought against it)
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think anti-discrimination policies limit our freedom, let's try experiencing discrimination for a day. Suddenly those \"political correctness gone mad\" complaints seem pretty trivial.
"},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#common-forms-of-discrimination-we-face","title":"Common Forms of Discrimination We Face","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/discrimination/#race-ethnicity","title":"Race & Ethnicity","text":"Freedom from discrimination means creating a society where we can all use our talents and abilities without artificial barriers. It means understanding that our diversity isn't just a buzzword - it's how successful societies actually work.
Reality Check
Our discomfort with change isn't more important than someone else's right to exist.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to fight discrimination? Let's start by examining our own biases - yes, even those we think \"don't count.\" Because real freedom means freedom for all of us, not just people who look and think like us.
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/","title":"Freedom From Government Overreach","text":"Government Wisdom
\"The government is here to help! (Terms and conditions may apply)\"
Call Danielle Smith, Premier Email the Premier
Call Mickey Amery, Minister of Justice Email Minister of Justice
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-government-overreach","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Government Overreach?","text":"Because somehow, the same government that can't fix our potholes wants to micromanage our lives. Let's talk about actual government overreach - not the \"they made us stop at red lights\" kind.
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"A Day in Our Life Under Big Government
Plot Twist
Yes, we need government - like we need guardrails on mountain roads. But guardrails shouldn't take up the whole highway.
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/#the-real-issues","title":"The Real Issues","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/government/#surveillance-state","title":"Surveillance State","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think all government is bad, let's try driving on a private road network where each owner sets their own traffic rules. Suddenly some basic standards don't seem so evil.
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/#what-good-government-looks-like","title":"What Good Government Looks Like","text":"When government stays in its lane:
Reality Check
Government overreach isn't just annoying - it's expensive, inefficient, and dangerous to our democracy.
"},{"location":"freefrom/government/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom from government overreach means having a government that protects our rights instead of restricting them. It means understanding that the best government is one that knows its limits.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to fight government overreach? Let's start by learning our rights, supporting privacy initiatives, and voting for politicians who understand that less is more when it comes to government control.
Remember: The goal isn't no government - it's good government. And good government knows when to back off and let us live our lives.
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/","title":"Freedom From Police Violence","text":"Urgent: Ongoing Police Violence
As Albertans, we must acknowledge that police violence isn't just an American problem - it's happening right here, right now. Through our tax dollars, we are funding a system that disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples, black and brown folks, and vulnerable communities. This systemic violence threatens everyone's freedom, and we must take responsibility for changing it.
Community Safety Wisdom
\"Public safety means building communities where everyone feels safe, not just those with badges.\"
Call Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety Email Minister of Public Safety
Call ASIRT (Alberta Serious Incident Response Team) Email ASIRT Director
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-police-violence","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Police Violence?","text":"Because somehow we went from \"protect and serve\" to \"command and control.\" Let's talk about why true freedom means addressing the ongoing impacts of police violence in Alberta.
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/#our-current-public-safety-system","title":"Our Current \"Public Safety\" System","text":"The Policing Experience Today
Plot Twist
Public safety doesn't mean more police - it means addressing root causes and building stronger communities.
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/#what-reformed-public-safety-looks-like","title":"What Reformed Public Safety Looks Like","text":"When we reduce policing:
Reality Check
Reform without systemic change is just oppression with better PR.
Pro Freedom Tip
If we think police reform is too radical, let's remember that militarized policing was pretty radical too.
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/#resources-and-support","title":"Resources and Support","text":"If you've experienced police violence:
Emergency Situations
If you're in immediate danger, seek safety first. Document the incident when it's safe to do so.
"},{"location":"freefrom/police-violence/#moving-forward","title":"Moving Forward","text":"Creating freedom from police violence requires systemic change and community engagement. It's about building a society where public safety means safety for everyone, not just some.
Get Involved
Join local organizations working on police accountability and community safety initiatives. Change happens when communities come together.
Remember: Real freedom means freedom for everyone, and that includes freedom from the fear of those meant to protect us.
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/","title":"Freedom From State Violence","text":"Urgent: Ongoing State Violence
As Albertans, we must acknowledge that state violence isn't just about physical force - it's happening through policy decisions, resource allocation, and systemic discrimination every day. Through our compliance and silence, we enable a system that perpetuates harm against marginalized communities. This institutional violence threatens everyone's freedom, and we must take responsibility for dismantling it.
Systemic Justice Wisdom
\"State violence isn't just about physical force - it's about the systemic ways institutions can harm communities.\"
Call Alberta Human Rights Commission Email Human Rights Commission
Call Alberta Ombudsman Email Alberta Ombudsman
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-state-violence","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From State Violence?","text":"Because somehow we went from \"government of the people\" to \"government despite the people.\" Let's talk about why true freedom means addressing the ongoing impacts of state violence in Alberta.
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#our-current-democratic-system","title":"Our Current \"Democratic\" System","text":"The State Violence Experience Today
State violence encompasses the broader ways that government institutions and systems can cause harm to individuals and communities:
Our province has specific challenges: - Resource development impacts on Indigenous communities - Urban planning inequities - Healthcare access disparities - Housing affordability crisis - Food security challenges
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#solutions-and-resistance","title":"Solutions and Resistance","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#policy-reform","title":"Policy Reform","text":"Taking Action
Creating freedom from state violence means: - Building community resilience - Developing alternative systems - Supporting mutual aid networks - Creating accountability mechanisms - Fostering community power
Resources
Connect with local organizations working on: - Policy reform - Community support - Mutual aid - Advocacy - Education
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#moving-forward","title":"Moving Forward","text":"True freedom requires addressing all forms of state violence. It's about creating systems that support rather than harm, include rather than exclude, and empower rather than oppress.
Remember
State violence affects different communities differently. Understanding intersectionality is crucial for addressing systemic issues effectively.
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#what-real-freedom-from-state-violence-looks-like","title":"What Real Freedom From State Violence Looks Like","text":"Plot Twist
Just governance doesn't mean austerity - it means investing in people and communities rather than corporate welfare.
Pro Freedom Tip
If we think systemic change is too expensive, let's calculate the cost of maintaining oppressive systems.
"},{"location":"freefrom/state-violence/#what-reformed-state-systems-look-like","title":"What Reformed State Systems Look Like","text":"When we address state violence: - Communities thrive - Innovation flourishes - Resources are shared - Environment heals - Everyone benefits from just governance
Reality Check
Reform without redistribution of power is just oppression with better marketing.
Remember: Real freedom means freedom for everyone, and that includes freedom from the violence of unjust systems and institutions.
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/","title":"Freedom From Surveillance","text":"Privacy Wisdom
\"Just because we have nothing to hide doesn't mean we should live in glass houses.\"
Call Danielle Smith, Premier Email the Premier
Call Nate Glubish, Minister of Technology and Innovation Email Minister of Technology and Innovation
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#why-do-we-need-freedom-from-surveillance","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom From Surveillance?","text":"Because somehow we went from \"1984 is a warning\" to \"1984 is a user manual.\" Let's talk about why our toasters don't need to spy on our breakfast habits.
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"A Day Under Surveillance
Plot Twist
Security and privacy aren't opposites. We can lock our doors AND have curtains on our windows. Amazing concept, we know.
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#the-real-issues","title":"The Real Issues","text":""},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#digital-surveillance","title":"Digital Surveillance","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think privacy doesn't matter, let's try giving our phone's unlock code to everyone we meet. Suddenly privacy seems important, eh?
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#the-privacy-paradox","title":"The Privacy Paradox","text":"What They Say vs Our Reality: - \"Nothing to hide\" \u2260 Nothing to protect - \"For our security\" \u2260 For our benefit - \"Personalized experience\" \u2260 Privacy respect - \"Terms of service\" \u2260 Informed consent
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"The cost of surveillance on us: - Privacy becomes a luxury - Innovation gets stifled - Trust erodes - Democracy weakens - Freedom diminishes
Reality Check
Our right to privacy isn't negotiable just because technology makes it easier to violate it.
"},{"location":"freefrom/surveillance/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom from surveillance means having the right to exist without constant monitoring. It means understanding that privacy isn't about hiding bad things - it's about maintaining our basic human dignity.
Let's Get Involved
Ready to fight surveillance? Let's start by: - Using privacy-respecting services - Supporting encryption rights - Questioning unnecessary data collection - Teaching others about privacy - Demanding better privacy laws
Remember: Just because they can watch doesn't mean they should. Privacy isn't just a right - it's a cornerstone of our freedom.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/","title":"Free Needs: DEMANDS for Basic Human Rights While Politicians Sip Champagne","text":"Reality Check
While our Premier poses for photos at Mar-a-Lago luxury resort, communities in Alberta still lack clean drinking water. Air is unbreathable for several days of the year. This isn't just wrong - it's violence.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/#our-basic-rights-are-non-negotiable","title":"Our Basic Rights Are Non-Negotiable","text":"We're done asking politely. While political elites jet off to Florida mansions for \"constructive conversations\" over champagne, Albertans are:
The Crisis is NOW
While politicians enjoy luxury resorts:
Basic Human Rights - NOT PRIVILEGES
Reality Check
While they ask this question, our leaders find money for:
The money exists - it's just being hoarded by the wealthy and powerful.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/#direct-action-gets-results","title":"Direct Action Gets Results","text":"We're done with polite requests. Our communities need:
The Time for Talk is OVER
While politicians pose for photos in Florida, Albertans are suffering. We demand action NOW.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/#join-the-fight","title":"Join the Fight","text":"This isn't about asking nicely anymore. This is about survival, dignity, and justice. Join us in demanding our basic rights:
Remember
Every day they delay is another day people suffer needlessly. Every photo op at a luxury resort is an insult to Albertans struggling to survive.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/","title":"Air Freedom","text":"Clean Air Wisdom
\"Nothing says freedom like checking the air quality index before letting our kids play outside\"
Call Grant Hunter, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Email Minister about Air Quality Protection
Call Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Health Email Minister about Health Impacts
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/#why-should-air-be-free","title":"Why Should Air Be Free?","text":"Because somehow we've normalized checking pollution levels before stepping outside. Revolutionary concept: maybe breathing shouldn't come with a health warning?
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Air Experience
Plot Twist
Here's a wild idea: maybe our right to breathe is more important than corporate profit margins. Shocking, we know.
There is no profit imaginable that replaces the need for clean and clear air. Our blue skies are not for sale.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we have clean air:
Pro Freedom Tip
If we think clean air regulations kill jobs, try running a business with workers who can't breathe.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/#the-real-cost-of-our-air-crisis","title":"The Real Cost of Our Air Crisis","text":"Our current system costs us:
Imagine if we had:
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between different brands of air purifiers isn't actually freedom - it's just expensive submission to air pollution.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/air/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Air freedom means having the right to breathe clean air without checking an app first. It means understanding that clean air isn't a luxury - it's a fundamental human right.
Take A Deep Breath
Ready to fight for real air freedom? Let's share this with our fellow Albertans - especially those who think smog is just spicy fog.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/","title":"Education Freedom","text":"Student Loan Wisdom
\"Knowledge is power, but power apparently costs $50,000 plus interest\"
Call Demetrios Nicolaides, Minister of Education Email Minister of Education
Call Myles McDougall, Minister of Advanced Education Email Minister of Advanced Education
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/#why-should-education-be-free","title":"Why Should Education Be Free?","text":"Because somehow we decided that learning should come with a side of crippling debt. It's like paying for air, except the air is knowledge, and you'll be paying for it until you retire.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/#the-current-freedom-system","title":"The Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Education Journey
Plot Twist
Countries with free education actually have higher standards. Turns out when you're not worrying about paying tuition, you can focus on learning. Who knew?
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When education is free: - Innovation increases - Entrepreneurship thrives - Workforce skills improve - People can actually change careers - The economy grows (fancy that!)
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If you think free education will make degrees worthless, explain why employers still value graduates from countries with free universities.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/education/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Education freedom means having the ability to learn and grow throughout your life without mortgaging your future. It means understanding that an educated population is an innovative population.
Reality Check
Your freedom to choose which bank owns your future isn't actually freedom - it's just debt with extra steps.
Ready to learn about real freedom? Share this page with your fellow Albertans - especially the ones still paying off their student loans from 1995.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/","title":"Environmental Freedom","text":"Oil Patch Wisdom
\"The environment will be fine! Now excuse us while we drink this totally normal looking tap water.\"
Call Grant Hunter, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Email Minister of Environment
Call Brian Jean, Minister of Energy and Minerals Email Minister of Energy
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/#why-should-our-environment-be-free","title":"Why Should Our Environment Be Free?","text":"Because breathing shouldn't be a premium service, and clean water shouldn't be something we have to buy at Costco. Revolutionary concept: maybe not poisoning our backyard is actually good for all of us?
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Environmental Experience
Plot Twist
Here's a shocking revelation: clean energy jobs don't require environmental sacrifice. Plus, bonus: our grandkids might actually have a planet to live on.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we protect our environment: - Our healthcare costs drop (breathing clean air helps, who knew?) - Our tourism increases (people like mountains without smokestacks) - Our property values stay stable (clean soil is worth more than contaminated soil) - Our new industries emerge (solar panels don't install themselves)
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think environmental protection kills jobs, let's consider the job-killing effects of uninhabitable planets.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/environment/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Environmental freedom means having the right to clean air, water, and soil without having to fight corporations for it. It means understanding that a healthy environment is actually good for our business (and, you know, staying alive).
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between different brands of bottled water isn't actually freedom - it's just expensive submission to environmental degradation.
Ready to breathe easier in a freer Alberta? Let's share this with our neighbors - especially the ones who think climate change is just spicy weather.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/food/","title":"Food Freedom","text":"Drive-Thru Philosophy
\"Friend Tim Hortons stopped being food a long time ago; lets at least demand the sludge is free\"
Call RJ Sigurdson, Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Email Minister of Agriculture
Call Jason Nixon, Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services Email Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services
"},{"location":"freeneeds/food/#why-should-food-be-free","title":"Why Should Food Be Free?","text":"Because somehow, in our province with more cattle than people, we still have folks going hungry. And no, living off energy drinks and beef jerky isn't a sustainable diet plan for any of us.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/food/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Food Chain
Plot Twist
Here's a crazy idea: we could pay our farmers to grow food for everyone, not just those who can afford farmers' market prices. Revolutionary, we know. And then we could cut out the vampires who make a profit on peoples hunger.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/food/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we all have good food:
Pro Freedom Tip
If we think free basic food is communist, let's hear about school lunches in other countries. Spoiler: their kids aren't doing basic necessities swaps on the playground.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/food/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Food freedom means never having to choose between paying our bills and eating well. It means understanding that a well-fed population is a productive population (shocking revelation).
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between different brands of instant noodles isn't actually freedom - it's just colorful malnutrition.
Ready to feed a freer Alberta? Let's share this with our friends and make sure that nobody ever goes hungry on this land again.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/","title":"Healthcare Freedom","text":"Emergency Room Wisdom
\"Our life-saving procedure has been denied because our insurance company's CEO needs a new yacht.\"
Call Adriana LaGrange, Minister of Health Email Minister of Health
Call Rick Wilson, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Email Minister of Mental Health and Addiction
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/#why-should-our-healthcare-be-free","title":"Why Should Our Healthcare Be Free?","text":"Because surprisingly, having a pulse shouldn't be a luxury item. We know, we know - radical thinking here in Alberta, where some of us think universal healthcare is already too generous. But let's hear each other out.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"A Typical Albertan Healthcare Journey
Plot Twist
True choice isn't picking which insurance company gets to deny our claims - it's being able to get care when we need it, regardless of our bank balance.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"Fun fact: Countries with universal healthcare actually spend LESS per capita on healthcare than we do. That's right - we're paying premium prices for discount service. It's like buying a lifted truck but only getting a Smart Car.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we're worried about government control of healthcare, consider this: right now, our health decisions are being made by corporate executives who've never met us. At least the government is somewhat accountable to us voters.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/healthcare/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Healthcare freedom means never having to choose between paying rent and getting that weird lump checked out. It means understanding that a healthy population is actually good for our economy (shocking, we know).
Reality Check
Our freedom to ignore that growing medical problem because of costs isn't actually freedom - it's just delayed bankruptcy.
Ready to join the fight for real healthcare freedom? Let's share this page with our fellow Albertans - especially the ones with \"Don't Tread On Me\" bumper stickers on their medicine cabinets.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/","title":"Housing Freedom","text":"Landlord Wisdom
\"Let's pull ourselves up by our bootstraps! (Just not in my rental property)\"
Call Jason Nixon, Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services Email Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services
Call Searle Turton, Minister of Children and Family Services Email Minister of Children and Family Services
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/#why-should-housing-be-free","title":"Why Should Housing Be Free?","text":"Because living in our trucks might be a lifestyle choice for some, but it shouldn't be our only option. Wild concept: maybe having a roof over our heads shouldn't require sacrificing our firstborns to the mortgage gods.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Housing Dream
Plot Twist
Nobody's saying we can't own property. We're just suggesting that maybe housing shouldn't be treated like Pokemon cards - you know, gotta catch 'em all while others have none.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we have stable housing, we: - Keep our jobs better - Stay healthier - Contribute more to our community - Buy more local truck accessories
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think free basic housing is radical, remember: we already have public roads, schools, and healthcare. Our houses didn't suddenly become a communist plot.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/housing/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Housing freedom means having a secure place to live that doesn't eat up 80% of our income. It means understanding that a housed population is a productive population (who knew?).
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between overpriced rentals isn't actually freedom - it's just decorated desperation.
Ready to build a freer Alberta? Let's share this with our neighbors - especially the ones who think \"just move somewhere cheaper\" is helpful advice.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/","title":"Movement & Transportation Freedom","text":"Traffic Wisdom
\"Nothing says freedom like being stuck in traffic with 10,000 of our closest individually-liberated neighbors\"
Call Devin Dreeshen, Minister of Transportation and Economic Corridors Email Minister of Transportation
Call Dan Williams, Minister of Municipal Affairs Email Minister of Municipal Affairs
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#why-should-transportation-be-free","title":"Why Should Transportation Be Free?","text":"Because somehow we decided that our right to move around should depend on our ability to afford a $70,000 pickup truck. Revolutionary concept: maybe getting to work shouldn't require a small mortgage on wheels?
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Transportation Experience
Plot Twist
Nobody's coming for our F-150s. We're just suggesting that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't be our only way to get to Costco. Wild, we know.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When our public transit is free and effective: - We save thousands on vehicle costs - Our cities spend less on road maintenance - Our air quality improves - Our parking lots can become actual useful spaces - Our downtown isn't just one giant parking garage
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think free public transit is communist, let's consider how much of our taxes go to maintaining roads for Amazon delivery trucks.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#the-real-cost-of-our-car-dependency","title":"The Real Cost of Our Car Dependency","text":"Our \"freedom machines\" cost us: - $700/month in payments - $200/month in insurance - $400/month in gas - $300/month in maintenance - Our firstborn's college fund in parking - Our sanity in traffic
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#the-better-way","title":"The Better Way","text":"Imagine if we had a world where: - We could read during our commute - We didn't have to be personal mechanics - Winter didn't mean bankruptcy via repairs - Our kids could get places without us being their chauffeurs - We could have a few drinks without needing a mortgage-sized Uber ride home
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between different colored trucks isn't actually freedom - it's just expensive isolation on wheels.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/transportation/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Transportation freedom means having the ability to move around our community without sacrificing our financial future. It means understanding that a mobile population is a productive population (and a less angry one too).
Let's Get Moving
Ready to roll toward real freedom? Let's share this with our fellow Albertans - especially those who think adding another lane will finally fix our traffic (spoiler: it won't).
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/","title":"Water Freedom","text":"Tap Water Reality
\"Nothing says freedom like having to boil our tap water while oil companies use millions of liters for free\"
Call Grant Hunter, Minister of Environment and Protected Areas Email Minister of Environment
Call Jason Nixon, Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services Email Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#why-should-water-be-free","title":"Why Should Water Be Free?","text":"Because somehow we've arrived at a point where bottled water costs more than gas. Revolutionary concept: maybe the thing we literally need to survive shouldn't come with a price tag?
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#our-current-freedom-system","title":"Our Current \"Freedom\" System","text":"The Alberta Water Experience
Plot Twist
Nobody's saying we can't use water. We're just suggesting that maybe corporations shouldn't get it for free while communities have to boil theirs.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#the-economic-freedom-argument","title":"The Economic Freedom Argument","text":"When we have clean, free water: - Public health improves - Local businesses thrive - Communities grow - We save billions on bottled water - Our environment thanks us
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think free clean water is radical, remember that corporations get millions of liters for pennies while charging us $2.50 for 500ml.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#the-real-cost-of-our-water-crisis","title":"The Real Cost of Our Water Crisis","text":"Our current system costs us: - $300/year in bottled water - Countless boil water advisories - Environmental degradation - Public health issues - Our basic human dignity
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#the-better-way","title":"The Better Way","text":"Imagine if we had: - Clean tap water everywhere - Protected water sources - Modern infrastructure - Fair distribution - Actual conservation policies
Reality Check
Our freedom to choose between different brands of bottled water isn't actually freedom - it's just expensive submission to corporate water control.
"},{"location":"freeneeds/water/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Water freedom means having access to clean, safe water without having to mortgage our future or destroy our environment. It means understanding that water is a human right, not a commodity to be bought and sold.
Let's Get Moving
Ready to flow toward real freedom? Let's share this with our fellow Albertans - especially those who think pristine water is just for premium subscribers.
"},{"location":"freethings/","title":"Free Things: Because Paying for Basic Necessities is So Last Century","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"If we're so free, why does everything cost money? Checkmate, capitalists.\"
"},{"location":"freethings/#things-that-should-be-free-but-arent-because-reasons","title":"Things That Should Be Free (But Aren't Because... Reasons)","text":"Look, we get it Alberta. We love our free market almost as much as we love complaining about carbon taxes. But let's talk about all the things that could actually be free if we weren't so busy protecting corporate profits.
"},{"location":"freethings/#the-obvious-ones","title":"The Obvious Ones","text":"Essential Services That Should Be Free:
Oh, I Don't Know, Maybe...
But What About The Economy?!
Funny how we never ask this when giving billions in subsidies to oil companies. Just saying.
"},{"location":"freethings/#the-real-cost-of-not-free","title":"The Real Cost of \"Not Free\"","text":"When basic services cost money:
Reality Check
If we can afford to give billions in corporate tax breaks, we can afford to make basic services free. It's not rocket science (which should also be free, by the way).
"},{"location":"freethings/#deep-dive-links","title":"Deep Dive Links","text":""},{"location":"freethings/#energy","title":"Energy","text":"Free Energy - Because freezing in -40\u00b0 isn't freedom
Environmental Impact - The real cost of \"cheap\" energy
"},{"location":"freethings/#communications","title":"Communications","text":"Free Communications - Break free from the telco oligarchy
Digital Rights - Because privacy shouldn't be a premium feature
"},{"location":"freethings/#recreation","title":"Recreation","text":"Free Recreation - Nature doesn't charge admission
Community Building - Building spaces for everyone
"},{"location":"freethings/#public-services","title":"Public Services","text":"Free Public Services - Stop paying to prove you exist
Government Reform - Making public services actually public
"},{"location":"freethings/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"We're not saying everything should be free (although...). We're just saying that in the richest province in one of the richest countries in the world, maybe - just maybe - we could make life a little less expensive for everyone.
Pro Freedom Tip
Real freedom includes freedom from crushing bills for basic services. Wild concept, we know.
Remember: A society is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members, not by how many billionaires it creates. And if we're really about freedom, maybe we should start with freeing people from unnecessary costs for essential services.
Think About It
If corporations can get free money from the government, why can't we get free services from our society? It's time to redistribute some freedom, comrades!
"},{"location":"freethings/communications/","title":"Free Communications: Because Getting Gouged by Telcos Isn't Freedom","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"If we're so free, why does it cost $100 a month to send memes to our friends?\"
Call Nate Glubish, Minister of Technology and Innovation Email Minister of Technology and Innovation
Call Dale Nally, Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Email Minister of Service Alberta
"},{"location":"freethings/communications/#the-current-situation","title":"The Current Situation","text":"Let's talk about our \"competitive\" telecommunications market:
Because...
Reality Check
Corporate Excuse Bingo
Digital Rights
Corporate Monopolies
"},{"location":"freethings/communications/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"In a digital age, treating communication as a commodity rather than a right is like charging for access to roads. Oh wait, they're trying to do that too...
Pro Tip
If your telecom bill is higher than your grocery bill, something's wrong with the system (and it's not you).
"},{"location":"freethings/energy/","title":"Free Energy: Because Paying to Keep Warm in -40\u00b0 is Ridiculous","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"We have enough oil and gas to power a small planet, but somehow we're still paying through the nose for heat. Make it make sense.\"
Call Brian Jean, Minister of Energy and Minerals Email Minister of Energy and Minerals
Call Nathan Neudorf, Minister of Affordability and Utilities Email Minister of Affordability and Utilities
"},{"location":"freethings/energy/#the-current-situation","title":"The Current Situation","text":"In a province literally swimming in energy resources, we're still: - Paying some of the highest utility bills in Canada - Watching energy companies post record profits - Pretending deregulation was a good idea - Getting price-gouged every winter
"},{"location":"freethings/energy/#why-energy-should-be-free","title":"Why Energy Should Be Free","text":"Because...
Plot Twist
Corporate Tears Alert
Energy executives might have to downgrade from private jets to first class. Our hearts bleed.
"},{"location":"freethings/energy/#the-real-cost-of-paid-energy","title":"The Real Cost of \"Paid\" Energy","text":"Environmental Impact
Corporate Corruption
"},{"location":"freethings/energy/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"In a province blessed with abundant energy resources, paying for basic power needs is like paying for air - absurd, unnecessary, and frankly, a bit suspicious.
Think About It
If we can subsidize oil companies, we can subsidize your heating bill. It's just a matter of priorities.
"},{"location":"freethings/publicservices/","title":"Free Public Services: Because Paying to Prove You Exist is Peak Capitalism","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"Nothing says 'freedom' like paying $80 to renew your license to drive on roads you already paid for with your taxes.\"
Call Dale Nally, Minister of Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction Email Minister of Service Alberta
Call Danielle Smith, Premier Email the Premier
"},{"location":"freethings/publicservices/#the-current-situation","title":"The Current Situation","text":"In our perfectly rational system, we pay for: - Birth certificates (congratulations, that'll be $40) - Marriage licenses (love isn't free, apparently) - Death certificates (final micro-transaction) - Vehicle registration (annual subscription to driving) - Business registration (pay-to-play entrepreneurship) - Property tax assessment (paying to know how much more to pay)
"},{"location":"freethings/publicservices/#why-public-services-should-be-free","title":"Why Public Services Should Be Free","text":"Because...
Reality Check
Bureaucrat's Lament
\"But how will we justify our existence without making people fill out forms in triplicate?\"
"},{"location":"freethings/publicservices/#the-real-cost-of-paid-public-services","title":"The Real Cost of Paid Public Services","text":"Government Overreach
Economic Justice
"},{"location":"freethings/publicservices/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"If corporations can register offshore accounts for free, you should be able to register your car without taking out a loan.
Think About It
In a truly free society, proving your existence shouldn't come with a price tag.
"},{"location":"freethings/recreation/","title":"Free Recreation: Because Fun Shouldn't Be Paywalled","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"Nothing says freedom like paying $200 to walk in your own mountains.\"
Call Andrew Boitchenko, Minister of Tourism and Sport Email Minister of Tourism and Sport
Call Todd Loewen, Minister of Forestry and Parks Email Minister of Forestry and Parks
"},{"location":"freethings/recreation/#the-current-situation","title":"The Current Situation","text":"In a province blessed with: - The Rocky Mountains - Countless lakes and rivers - Beautiful provincial parks - World-class facilities
We've somehow managed to: - Charge entry fees for nature - Privatize recreation centers - Make sports unaffordable - Turn parks into profit centers
"},{"location":"freethings/recreation/#why-recreation-should-be-free","title":"Why Recreation Should Be Free","text":"Because...
Oh, I Don't Know...
But What About Maintenance?
Funny how we never ask this about hockey arenas that get millions in public funding...
"},{"location":"freethings/recreation/#the-real-benefits-of-free-recreation","title":"The Real Benefits of Free Recreation","text":"Public Health
Community Building
"},{"location":"freethings/recreation/#success-stories","title":"Success Stories","text":"Look What Works
If we can afford to build million-dollar hockey arenas for billionaire team owners, we can afford to make recreation free for everyone.
Remember
A society that plays together, stays together. Unless they're priced out of playing, then they just watch Netflix alone.
"},{"location":"freeto/","title":"Free To: Because Freedom Isn't Just About What You're Against","text":"Alberta Freedom Philosophy
\"Freedom isn't just about honking your horn - sometimes it's about having the freedom to get a good night's sleep.\"
"},{"location":"freeto/#what-should-we-be-free-to-do","title":"What Should We Be Free To Do?","text":"Look, Alberta, we know you love our freedom to complain about Ottawa (it's practically our provincial sport). But let's talk about the freedoms that actually make life better - you know, the ones that don't involve blocking traffic or writing angry Facebook posts.
"},{"location":"freeto/#the-real-freedoms","title":"The Real Freedoms","text":"Essential Freedoms To:
Traditional values are great - if you choose them. But forcing everyone to live like it's 1950 isn't freedom, it's just nostalgia with extra steps. All things change, values as well, and we can either change with the times or be left behind by history.
"},{"location":"freeto/#the-economic-argument","title":"The Economic Argument","text":"When people are free to be themselves and pursue their dreams: - Innovation flourishes (turns out diversity isn't just a buzzword) - Communities grow stronger (who knew?) - Economy diversifies (yes, beyond oil and gas) - Culture becomes richer (and we don't just mean financially)
"},{"location":"freeto/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Reality Check
Your freedom to be yourself includes other people's freedom to be themselves. Shocking concept, we know.
"},{"location":"freeto/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Being truly free means having the ability to chart your own course, even if that course doesn't look like everyone else's. It means understanding that freedom isn't just about what you're against - it's about what you're for.
Get Involved
Ready to expand freedom for everyone? Start by supporting others in their journey to be themselves. Yes, even the ones who put pineapple on pizza (we don't judge... much).
Remember: True freedom creates possibilities - it doesn't limit them. And sometimes the most radical act of freedom is just letting others live their lives in peace.
Fun Fact
Did you know? The more freedom people have to be themselves, the more interesting and vibrant our society becomes. It's almost like diversity makes life better for everyone. Who would've thought?
"},{"location":"freeto/associate/","title":"Freedom to Associate: Choosing Your Community","text":"Community Building Philosophy
\"Your tribe isn't just who you're born with - it's who you choose to walk with.\"
Call Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Email Minister of Jobs about Worker Associations
Call Muhammad Yaseen, Associate Minister of Multiculturalism Email Minister of Immigration about Cultural Associations
"},{"location":"freeto/associate/#the-power-of-association","title":"The Power of Association","text":"Freedom to associate means more than just hanging out with friends. It's about forming meaningful connections, building networks, and creating communities that reflect your values and aspirations.
"},{"location":"freeto/associate/#why-it-matters","title":"Why It Matters","text":"Benefits of Free Association
Remember
Freedom to associate includes the freedom not to associate. Respect boundaries and consent in community building.
"},{"location":"freeto/associate/#building-healthy-associations","title":"Building Healthy Associations","text":"Guidelines for Success
Strong associations create: - Resilient communities - Democratic participation - Cultural preservation - Social innovation - Economic cooperation
Taking Action
Looking to build or join associations? Start with shared interests and values, then work together to create the change you want to see.
"},{"location":"freeto/associate/#contact-your-representatives","title":"Contact Your Representatives","text":"Help strengthen association rights in Alberta by getting involved in your community.
"},{"location":"freeto/create/","title":"Freedom to Create","text":"Creative Wisdom
\"But what if we made something that WASN'T related to oil and gas?\" - An Albertan Visionary, probably
Call Tanya Fir, Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women Email Minister of Arts and Culture
Call Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#why-do-we-need-freedom-to-create","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom to Create?","text":"Because somehow we got stuck thinking innovation only happens in the oil patch. Shocking revelation: we've got more creative potential than a pipeline proposal meeting.
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#our-current-creative-system","title":"Our Current \"Creative\" System","text":"The Alberta Creative Journey
Plot Twist
Did we know? Creative industries can actually make money. And bonus: they don't require environmental cleanup afterward!
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#our-creative-landscape","title":"Our Creative Landscape","text":""},{"location":"freeto/create/#arts-culture","title":"Arts & Culture","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think creativity is a waste of time, let's try living in a world without art, music, design, or innovation. Even our trucks were designed by someone creative.
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#the-economic-reality","title":"The Economic Reality","text":"When we embrace creative freedom: - Our new industries emerge - Our tourism diversifies - Our young people stay - Our culture thrives - Our economy grows (in new directions!)
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#what-were-missing","title":"What We're Missing","text":"Steps to Our Creative Liberation: 1. Let's acknowledge creativity's value 2. Let's fund diverse projects 3. Let's build creative spaces 4. Let's support local artists 5. Let's embrace innovation 6. Let's accept that not everything needs to be \"practical\"
Reality Check
Our freedom to stick to tradition doesn't mean we can't create something new. Innovation isn't a personal attack on our way of life.
"},{"location":"freeto/create/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom to create means having the support, space, and resources to bring our new ideas to life. It means understanding that a thriving society needs more than just resource extraction - we need imagination, innovation, and yes, even art.
Let's Get Creating
Ready to support creative freedom? Let's start by: - Supporting our local artists - Funding our innovative projects - Attending our cultural events - Embracing our new ideas - Creating something ourselves
Remember: Every great innovation started with someone having the freedom to try something different. Even our oil industry was once a crazy new idea.
"},{"location":"freeto/gather/","title":"Freedom to Gather: Building Community Through Assembly","text":"Alberta Community Philosophy
\"Real freedom includes the right to come together - and not just for hockey games and stampedes.\"
Call Mike Ellis, Minister of Public Safety Email Minister about Assembly Rights
Call Dan Williams, Minister of Municipal Affairs Email Minister about Community Spaces
"},{"location":"freeto/gather/#why-gathering-matters","title":"Why Gathering Matters","text":"In an age of digital isolation and social distancing, the freedom to gather has never been more important. It's about more than just meeting up - it's about building the foundations of community action and social change.
"},{"location":"freeto/gather/#the-power-of-assembly","title":"The Power of Assembly","text":"Key Benefits of Gathering
Remember
Freedom to gather comes with responsibility. Respect others, respect spaces, and remember that peaceful assembly is the key.
"},{"location":"freeto/gather/#creating-safe-spaces","title":"Creating Safe Spaces","text":"Best Practices
When communities gather: - Ideas spread - Movements grow - Change happens - Democracy strengthens - Culture thrives
Get Started
Want to organize a gathering? Start small, think inclusive, and remember: every great movement started with people simply coming together.
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/","title":"Freedom to Learn","text":"Educational Wisdom
\"Learning is a lifelong journey, not just something we do until we can get a job in the oil patch.\"
Call Demetrios Nicolaides, Minister of Education Email Minister of Education
Call Nate Glubish, Honourable Minister of Technology and Innovation Email Minister Glubish
Call Myles McDougall, Minister of Advanced Education Email Minister of Advanced Education
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#why-do-we-need-freedom-to-learn","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom to Learn?","text":"Because somehow we got stuck thinking education ends when we get our first hard hat. Plot twist: our brains don't expire after high school, and learning new things won't make our trucks less manly.
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#our-current-learning-system","title":"Our Current \"Learning\" System","text":"The Alberta Learning Journey
Plot Twist
Turns out, the more things we're free to learn, the more innovative our economy becomes. Mind-blowing, we know.
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#the-learning-landscape","title":"The Learning Landscape","text":""},{"location":"freeto/learn/#traditional-education","title":"Traditional Education","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think learning is just for kids, let's try competing in today's job market with 1980s skills. Even our trucks have computers now.
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#breaking-down-barriers","title":"Breaking Down Barriers","text":"What's Stopping Us: - Time constraints (\"We work three jobs\") - Financial barriers (\"Learning is expensive\") - Social pressure (\"Real workers don't need book learning\") - Limited access (\"Our only college is 3 hours away\") - Fear of change (\"But this is how we've always done it\")
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#what-we-need","title":"What We Need","text":"When we're free to learn: - Our innovation increases - Our productivity improves - Our adaptability grows - Our economy diversifies - Our communities thrive
Reality Check
Our freedom to stay the same doesn't mean we shouldn't have the freedom to grow and change.
"},{"location":"freeto/learn/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom to learn means having the opportunity, resources, and support to develop ourselves throughout our lives. It means understanding that education isn't just about jobs - it's about growing as people and as a society.
Let's Get Learning
Ready to support learning freedom? Let's start by: - Supporting our education initiatives - Encouraging lifelong learning - Sharing our knowledge and skills - Creating learning opportunities - Never stopping our own learning journey
Remember: Every skill we have was learned at some point. Freedom to learn means giving all of us the chance to develop our full potential - even if that potential doesn't involve a hard hat.
"},{"location":"freeto/love/","title":"Freedom to Love","text":"Love Wisdom
\"Love isn't just about who we are, it's about who we're free to become together.\"
"},{"location":"freeto/love/#who-is-responsible","title":"Who is Responsible?","text":"Call Premier Danielle Smith Email Premier Smith
Call Deputy Premier Mike Ellis Email Deputy Premier Ellis
Call Searle Turton, Minister of Children and Family Services Email Minister Turton
Call Rick Wilson, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Email Minister Williams
Call Tanya Fir, Minister of Arts, Culture and Status of Women Email Minister of Arts and Culture
Call Andrew Boitchenko, Minister of Tourism and Sport Email Minister of Tourism
"},{"location":"freeto/love/#why-do-we-need-freedom-to-love","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom to Love?","text":"Because somehow we got stuck thinking there's only one right way to build relationships and families. Plot twist: love comes in more varieties than Tim Hortons' donuts, and that's actually pretty great.
"},{"location":"freeto/love/#our-current-love-system","title":"Our Current \"Love\" System","text":"The Alberta Love Journey
Plot Twist
Traditional values aren't threatened by other people's happiness. Your marriage isn't less valid because others can marry too.
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If we think limiting others' love makes ours stronger, we might need to rethink what love actually means.
"},{"location":"freeto/love/#breaking-down-barriers","title":"Breaking Down Barriers","text":"What's Stopping Us:
When we're free to love:
Reality Check
Our freedom to love traditionally doesn't mean others shouldn't have the freedom to love differently.
"},{"location":"freeto/love/#the-love-freedom-checklist","title":"The Love Freedom Checklist","text":"Essential Freedoms:
Freedom to love means having the right to build authentic relationships and families without fear, discrimination, or judgment. It means understanding that love strengthens our community when we let it flourish in all its forms.
Let's Support Love
Ready to support love freedom? Let's start by: - Supporting LGBTQ2S+ rights - Celebrating diverse families - Creating safe spaces - Fighting discrimination - Teaching acceptance - Sharing love stories
Remember: Love isn't a finite resource - letting others love freely doesn't diminish anyone else's love. If anything, it makes our whole community stronger.
Fun Fact
Did you know? Communities that embrace diversity and love freedom tend to have lower rates of mental health issues and higher rates of economic growth. It's almost like letting people be themselves is good for everyone.
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/","title":"Freedom to Rest","text":"Burnout Wisdom
\"Our worth isn't measured by our productivity, even if our truck's worth is measured by its horsepower.\"
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#who-is-responsible","title":"Who is Responsible?","text":"Call Rick Wilson, Minister of Mental Health and Addiction Email Minister of Mental Health
Call Jason Nixon, Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services Send Minister Nixon a Email
Call Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Email Minister of Jobs and Economy
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#why-do-we-need-freedom-to-rest","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom to Rest?","text":"Because somehow we ended up thinking that working ourselves to death is a badge of honor. News flash: even our oil rigs have maintenance breaks, and we're at least as important as industrial equipment.
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#our-current-rest-system","title":"Our Current \"Rest\" System","text":"The Alberta Rest Journey
Plot Twist
Turns out, well-rested workers are more productive. Shocking concept: we aren't machines, and treating us like people actually works better.
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#the-rest-revolution","title":"The Rest Revolution","text":""},{"location":"freeto/rest/#physical-rest","title":"Physical Rest","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think rest is for the weak, let's try operating heavy machinery after 48 hours without sleep. Actually, don't - that's literally illegal.
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#breaking-rest-barriers","title":"Breaking Rest Barriers","text":"What's Stopping Us: - Hustle culture (\"Rise and grind!\") - Financial pressure (\"Can't afford to rest\") - Social stigma (\"Lazy millennials\") - Work expectations (\"Always be available\") - FOMO (Fear Of Missing Overtime)
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#what-we-need","title":"What We Need","text":"When we're free to rest: - Our productivity improves - Our creativity increases - Our health costs decrease - Our safety improves - Our innovation thrives - Our relationships strengthen
Reality Check
Our freedom to work ourselves to death doesn't mean we all should have to. Rest isn't weakness - it's essential maintenance.
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#the-rest-revolution-checklist","title":"The Rest Revolution Checklist","text":"Essential Freedoms: - Freedom to disconnect - Freedom to take breaks - Freedom to vacation - Freedom to say no - Freedom to prioritize health - Freedom to have a life outside work
"},{"location":"freeto/rest/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom to rest means having the right, ability, and social acceptance to take care of ourselves without guilt or consequence. It means understanding that we aren't machines, and downtime isn't wasted time.
Let's Get Resting
Ready to support rest freedom? Let's start by: - Taking our own breaks - Respecting each other's rest time - Supporting work-life balance - Fighting toxic productivity - Normalizing rest and recovery
Remember: Even our precious trucks need regular maintenance and downtime. We deserve at least as much care as our vehicles.
Fun Fact
Did we know? Countries with better work-life balance and more vacation time often have higher productivity rates. It's almost like treating people like humans works better than treating us like machines.
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/","title":"Freedom to Start Over","text":"Fresh Start Wisdom
\"Because sometimes the best way forward is to start from scratch.\"
Call Joseph Schow, Minister of Jobs, Economy, Trade and Immigration Email Minister of Jobs and Economy
Call Searle Turton, Minister of Children and Family Services Email Minister of Assisted Living and Social Services
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#why-do-we-need-freedom-to-start-over","title":"Why Do We Need Freedom to Start Over?","text":"Because somehow we've decided that our first career choice at 18 should define our entire lives. Plot twist: maybe when we couldn't legally buy a beer wasn't the best time to make lifetime decisions.
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#our-current-starting-over-system","title":"Our Current \"Starting Over\" System","text":"The Alberta Do-Over Journey
Plot Twist
The most stable thing we can do is be adaptable. Even dinosaurs thought they had job security, and look how that turned out.
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#the-fresh-start-landscape","title":"The Fresh Start Landscape","text":""},{"location":"freeto/startover/#career-transitions","title":"Career Transitions","text":"Pro Freedom Tip
If we think starting over is for quitters, remember: even Fort Mac had to think beyond oil sands eventually.
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#breaking-down-barriers","title":"Breaking Down Barriers","text":"What's Stopping Us: - Financial fear (\"We can't afford to switch\") - Social pressure (\"What will people think?\") - Age bias (\"We're too old to change\") - Family expectations (\"But it's our family business!\") - Identity attachment (\"But we're [current job] people!\")
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#what-we-need","title":"What We Need","text":"When we're free to start over: - Our innovation flourishes - Our industries adapt - Our economy diversifies - Our resilience grows - Our communities evolve
Reality Check
Our freedom to stay the same doesn't mean we shouldn't have the freedom to change. Change isn't betrayal - it's growth.
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#the-fresh-start-checklist","title":"The Fresh Start Checklist","text":"Essential Freedoms: - Freedom to change careers - Freedom to learn new skills - Freedom to move locations - Freedom to reinvent ourselves - Freedom to admit mistakes - Freedom to try again
"},{"location":"freeto/startover/#the-bottom-line","title":"The Bottom Line","text":"Freedom to start over means having the support, resources, and social acceptance to change our paths when needed. It means understanding that growth often requires letting go of what's familiar.
Let's Get Started
Ready to support fresh start freedom? Let's begin by: - Supporting transition programs - Sharing success stories - Offering mentorship - Creating opportunities - Being open to change ourselves
Remember: Even Alberta itself started over - we weren't always about oil and gas. Sometimes the best traditions are the ones we haven't created yet.
Fun Fact
Did we know? The average person changes careers 5-7 times in their lifetime. It's almost like adapting to change is actually normal. Who would've thought?
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