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Should we be arguing that, if Mamdani’s bunch can increase rent controls, there might be a temporary improvement to workers’ living standards, but the law of value will operate on wages and the result will merely be a redistribution of surplus value away from the rentiers and towards the employers?
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The main socialist argument, which is not the argument of the leftwinger, is that taxation produces a heavy burden on the capitalist profits, and to implement it, taxation on the capitalists must be increased, and the capitalists are going to push back, and the state would be forced to eliminate the program.Most rich people, landowners, and landlords are against those reforms because they know that they will affect their profits.
Real estate in New York is very expensive, and it produces high rental income
It might temporarily increase the standard of living of the workers for a short period of time, but nothing is free in a capitalist society
.Those programs must be implemented using higher taxation on the capitalists; it is a tax law, like Obamacare is a tax law, and that is the reason why the capitalists want to eliminate it.
The main problem with those social democratic reformists ( calling themselves socialists ) is that when they fail, or their reformist programs can not be implemented, the capitalists blame it on socialism.
His program is new for the American ( USA ) workers, but it is not new for the Europeans and some Latin American countries, who have also elected social democrats, and socialism is not a dirty word.
It was implemented after the economic boom of the post-war period and high taxation on the capitalist class, but most of those programs have been reversed.
Some right-wing presidents and dictators have implemented programs of land reform for the peasants, price control, and rent control, and they have not worked; on the contrary, they have created more economic problems.
A president or a state minister can not control the market system.
In Venezuela, Hugo Chavez implemented some free programs for the workers, including housing, but they failed because capitalism must produce profits to avoid economic crisis.
I forgot to mention in my last message ( I can’t edit it ) that socialism is not going to be an economic system; it is a social production, or a society of freely associated labourers
Better correct “with” to “without” before “social classes”, or Wez will pick up on it!
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I am resting my case: There is no fascism, there are no fascists, and socialism is not an ideology, and it is not a doctrine either, even though Engels used the expression: doctrine in a different context. Later on, he called socialism/communism a movement
Every month from the Socialist Standard, we are going to translate one or two important articles in Spanish, French and Portuguese
Well, there are more than 7 websites publishing articles and pamphlets from the Socialist Party, World Socialist Movement, in different languages.
https://bsky.app/profile/movimientosocialis.bsky.social
https://mastodon.social/@publicacionespoloticasyecono
https://www.facebook.com/groups/713297011781469
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569616352095
Marx defined ideology as the ideas that uphold the conceptions of the ruling class in every epoch; Engels also defined it as false consciousness, or a distortion of reality.
Therefore, socialism is not an ideology because the working class is not and will not be a ruling class; on the contrary, it is going to establish a society without social classes, without a ruling class, without distortion of our social reality
Socialism will provide self-class consciousness and real social awareness to the whole world working class, and all ideologies of all kinds will be rejected.
Socialists are and should be against all ideologies
When Marx was a proto Menshevik, Lenin copied or took some of his conceptions to elaborate some of his Leninist distortions, including the national liberation. Marx changed his point of view when he became politically mature. Was Marx or Engels responsible for Leninism?
Julius Martov’s archives in Spanish have been expanded, too.
https://www.marxists.org/espanol/martov/index.htm
There are four more articles that were published by the Socialist Party that can not be included. They were not written by Julius Martov
Most Socialist Party pamphlets like this one have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese and French
No existen autobuses gratuitos ( Socialist Standard 11/25 )
The economic reality is going to show him and his followers that a leader can not change the economic base of any class society, and that there is nothing free within the capitalist society. That reform has been tried in other places, and they have failed. Some universities had free transportation for their students, and some were forced to eliminate the program
“Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend”. Mao. That expression of Mao applies to all the Trotskyist sects; every day, a new one emerges, and all of them compete against each other. The main problem of those groups is the concept of leadership; they are followers of leaders
Many scientific conceptions came through Paganism, and some scientists were pagans because religion and science were still together. After all, natural sciences have evolved by themselves, and both have separated. Medicine was not born with the Greeks; it was born in Africa and among the Egyptians. The merits of the Greeks are that they explained that diseases were produced by natural causes instead of divine intervention. Hippocrates was also a philosopher and a scientist. Many scientists, biologists and mathematicians were philosophers
Adam Smith was also a philosopher and an economist, and he wrote about ethics and morality. Robert Owen was also a philosopher, and Saint Simon was a philosopher. Engels indicated that England was the birthplace of modern materialism, although philosophy evolved with the Indian ( from India ) and the Greek
