Opposing Views: Socialist

Many kinds of socialist movements have flourished over the last 150 years, with roots going back at least to early Christian movements, but they all have in common a belief in a political and economic system in which the state controls (either through planning or outright ownership) all basic means of production. The aim is to produce all necessities for society without regard for profitability. The end result is an egalitarian society in which all are cared for by society and poverty is eliminated.

• Solidarity
  The web site for this bimonthly journal of analysis, Against the Current is published by Solidarity, a socialist organization.

   

• Socialist Party USA Cybercenter
  The home page of the Socialist Party USA, this site includes links to socialist/social democratic organizations around the world.

• Dissent
  Suzzallo/Allen Stacks
  HX1 D58
  Also Available Online
  Published quarterly by the Foundation for the Study of Independent Social Ideas, Inc., Dissent is a "democratic socialist magazine." It does not support any specific candidates or legislation and attempts to present current issues in an open, non-dogmatic way. It also publishes views opposed to those of the journal.

   

• Freedom Socialist
  Microforms & Newspapers Collection
  Microfilm A7637
  Also Available Online
  This quarterly newspaper covers national and local (Seattle and Pacific Northwest) events from the perspective(s) of "Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyists, feminists, humanists..." in its efforts to defeat capitalism and bring about universal ethnic. gender and economic equality.

   

• In These Times
  Microforms & Newspapers Collection
  Microfilm A7719
  Also Available Online
  Published biweekly by the Institute for Public Affairs, this journal provides a socialist editorial page, but opens its pages to "a wide range of views, socialist and non-socialist, liberal and conservative." It puts particular emphasis on covering news of labor and women.

   

• The Militant
  Microforms & Newspapers Collection
  Microfilm A4129
  This Socialist news weekly is "published in the interests of working people." It covers national and international political news from the perspective of the Socialist Workers.