Digital socialism or knowledge capitalism?

The socialization of capitalism or the neoliberalization of socialism?

What does a socialist at heart do when he has become disillusioned with the experience of socialism in the East and flabbergasted with the extraordinary resilience and spreading out of capitalism everywhere? When he knows, deep down, that capitalism has become ‘part of the natural order of things’ and that a wholesome transformation of the social bases of production is unlikely, if not impossib...

Capitalism, Socialism, and Behavioral Theory

My personal observations of the conditions in and behaviors emitted by citizens in several socialist states and their capitalistic neighbors are first described and compared. I then discuss the applicability of behavioral theory to individual behavior in all environments and how those principles can be applied to an understanding of the emergence of capitalistic relationships. I suggest that be...

"Fair shares": beyond capitalism and socialism, or the biological basis of social justice.

The accumulating scientific evidence -- across many disciplines -- regarding human evolution and the dualities and complexities of human nature indicates that the core ideological assumptions of both capitalism and socialism are simplistic and ultimately irreconcilable. A biologically grounded approach to social justice enables us to articulate a new ideological paradigm that I call ''Fair Shar...

Socialism and Capitalism: Are They Qualitatively Different Socioeconomic Systems?

Marxism and the Spirit of Socialism: Cultural Origins of Anti-capitalism (1982)

Ignazio Silone, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party, has written strikingly about the role of moral commitment in radical theory. ‘The more Socialist theories claim to be “scientifi c”’, he suggests, ‘the more transitory they are; but Socialist values are permanent. The distinction between theories and values is not suffi ciently recognized, but it is fundamental. On a group of t...