The most serious argument against socialism isn't about human nature, it's about economic possibilities. Let's dive into what Mises and Hayek have to say.
The *Socialist* Political Compass: Methods to create socialism
Market Socialism | The Paper Pilot
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The Wall Street Journal’s Socialism Reporting Is Better Than the New York Times’
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal openly opposes socialists. The New York Times also opposes socialism, but prefers a more insidious approach.
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
The Socialist Party of Great Britain
The Socialist Party wants to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism.
Digital Socialism?
What opportunities does the new feedback infrastructure of data capitalism offer for non-market forms of social coordination? Hayek and the Calculation Debate revisited in the age of big data.
John Maynard Keynes: the cultured economist who governments turn to in a crisis
A new play about the art-loving Bloomsbury Group member speaks of the enduring battle of ideas with his free-market rival Friedrich Hayek
Correlates of the Mamdani Vote
No class gradient is a big win for democratic socialism
Anarchy and modern convenience
A major part of anarchy and socialism is the concept of anti-work. An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement—a focus on working less overall and sharing labor more equally—is an important part of decolonization, feminism, and anti-capitalism. A common criticism of this is that reducing the amount everyone works to something like 20 hours a week instead of 40+ means we would have to give up a lot of conveniences.
Political Aspects of Full Employment
Why do capitalists hate full employment? Because it weakens their power over workers.
The Socialist Charcuterie Board - The Ideas Letter
Taking issue with Benanav’s institutional vision of a democratic political economy of technology, Morozov argues that generative AI exposes a deeper problem that socialism has yet to solve: how to…
How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich
Sweden often gets held up as an example of how socialism can work better than markets. But, as Norberg shows, Sweden’s history in fact points to the opposite conclusion.
Denizen
What are some of the fundamental flaws of capitalism? How might we instantiate a market-based economy that is growth agnostic?
There's a pernicious belief, widely believed, that if a platform isn't on its way to becoming the biggest platform then it's on its way to failing. That belief is silly. So let's stop talking about Bluesky as if that belief is true.
We Needn't Have a One True Platform
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