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Michael Lebowitz: The spectre of socialism for the 21st century
The following is the keynote address to the annual meeting of the Society for Socialist Studies, Vancouver, June 5, 2008. It was originally titled ``Building socialism for the 21st century''. To hear an audio recording of the speech, click HERE.
By Michael A. Lebowitz
A spectre is haunting capitalism. It is the spectre of socialism for the 21st century. Increasingly, the characteristics of this spectre are becoming clear, and we are able to see enough to understand what it is not. The only thing that is not clear at this point is whether the spectre is real – i.e., whether it is actually an earthly presence.
Michael A. Lebowitz: La jornada laboral capitalista y la jornada laboral socialista
By Michael A. Lebowitz
[Translation by J. Duckworth]
A medida que el primero de mayo se acerca, vale la pena recordar cuatro aspectos sobre ese día:
1. Para l@s trabajador@s el primero de mayo no es la celebración de un
día feriado estatal, ni un regalo de él, sino que conmemorara es la
lucha —desde abajo— de l@s trabajador@s.
2. Inicialmente, el primero de mayo se centraba en la lucha por una jornada laboral mas corta.
3. La lucha para una jornada laboral mas corta no es una lucha aislada sino la lucha contra la explotación capitalista.
4. La lucha contra la explotación capitalista es una parte esencial
pero no es la única parte de la lucha general contra el capitalismo.
Hoy quiero exponer algunas ideas que se refieren tanto a la jornada
laboral capitalista como a la socialista y espero que ellas puedan ser
útiles en la lucha actual en Venezuela y que sirvan, de manera más
inmediata, a los debates de hoy.
Michael A. Lebowitz: May Day -- The capitalist workday, the socialist workday
By
Michael A. Lebowitz
1.
For workers, May Day does not celebrate a state holiday or gifts from the state
but commemorates the struggle of workers from below.
2.
The initial focus of May Day was a struggle for the shorter workday.
3.
The struggle for the shorter workday is not an isolated struggle but is the
struggle against capitalist exploitation.
'Without worker-management, there is no socialism'
[A talk given at the two-day seminar “Workers Management: Theory and Practise”, held on October 26 and 27, 2007, organised by the Human Development and Transformative Praxis Program at the Caracas-based Miranda International
`Socialisms' in the 21st Century
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