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Grand Theft Auto is a series with a justified reputation for excessive violence and hedonistic lifestyles, but is it possible to draw an anti-capitalist narrative from what might otherwise read as glorification?
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Faced with the establishment of workers’ democracy across the globe, alongside growing socialist movements in their own countries, the West took drastic measures. It redistributed a tiny portion of its super-profits, amassed through bloody imperialist exploitation, to smother the class interests of the Western working class with moderate material concessions.
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Social democrats, who often repeat the lie equating fascism and communism, are more than happy to give a few token statements, as they often do, but in reality will watch and even make deals with fascists.
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Social democracy relies on Imperialism to generate profits and export poverty to the developing world while reaping the rewards gained from exploiting entire nations.
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Now is the perfect time to reflect on the problem of the second shift faced by women in the workplace and home. This article reviews Working Parents and the Revolution at Home by Professor Arlie Hochschild and explores how men can behave more responsibly in the division of labour.
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Here we can see the working class of Ireland recognise their position, they can see very clearly the problems capitalism produces, namely, the health and housing crises. Here Sinn Féin had the opportunity to exploit the gap in anti-austerity politics that Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil structurally support.
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Banking in Ireland has a rightly deserved negative reputation, with private developers exploiting the public exchequer to rack up immense profits while engaging in socially irresponsible and reckless practices. This article asks the question – is another way possible?
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It exists almost as if to affirm that capitalism is the only viable option, and feeds into the western idea of restricting socialism to its most minimal form. Furthermore, the Nordic welfare model cannot be presented as an alternative to both socialism and capitalism, it works mainly as a form of appeasement, keeping the working class quiet while still supporting free market capitalism.
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Self proclaimed socialists such as Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Corbyn have seen moderate success in electoral politics which has opened up a space for socialists to introduce their ideas to a much larger audience.
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Almost 30 years after the fall of the USSR, it’s become quite clear that our welfare state was little more than pacifying piecemeal for the masses of Europe and the US – the Covid-19 Pandemic has placed all eyes on this reality.
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