Archives for September, 2017

My long journey from socialism to liberalism

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   I was born in 1946. I lived in a council house until I was

Posted in Bertrand Russell, Common ownership, Democracy, Jeremy Corbyn, Karl Marx, Khmer Rouge, Labour Party, Left politics, Liberalism, Ludwig von Mises, Mao Zedong, Markets, Nationalization, Private enterprise, Property, Right politics, Socialism, Soviet Union, Tony Benn

Whither socialism? – Some lessons from the past

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Many people still call themselves socialists. But rarely is it made clear what they

Posted in Bertrand Russell, Brexit, Common ownership, Democracy, Jeremy Corbyn, Karl Marx, Labour Party, Left politics, Lenin, Markets, Nationalization, Private enterprise, Robert Owen, Socialism, Tony Benn, Tony Blair, Tony Blair, Venezuela

Marxism, neoliberalism and the roots of dictatorship

    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   In terms of basic assumptions, Marxism has more in common with some prominent versions

Posted in Common ownership, Democracy, Karl Marx, Left politics, Leszek Kolakowski, Liberalism, Ludwig von Mises, Markets, Neoliberalism, Politics, Private enterprise, Property, Right politics, Socialism, Soviet Union, Venezuela