Socialism & Marxism

Our aim is to build a movement working towards socialism, a democratic society based upon co-operation and production for use, a world community without national borders. An end to buying and selling and money, where goods will be voluntarily produced and services voluntarily supplied to meet people's needs. People will freely take the things they need. The Socialist Party of Great Britain is an organisation of equals with no leaders.

In A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century, Tony Smith argues for “a feasible and superior alternative” (120) to capitalism in the form of republican socialism. At its core, republicanism rests on two principles: self-governance and freedom from domination (4–8). For Smith, these principles express an explicitly anti-authoritarian stance, summed up in the formulation “self-governance without domination” (24). The result is a vision of socialism that is clearly anti-authoritarian—unlike the state-socialist models of the former USSR or present-day China. From the outset, Smith aims to develop a model that goes beyond historical instances of “really existing socialism.” Because those experiences shaped…

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After unions won historic gains for working people in the strike wave that followed the end of World War II, corporations like General Electric and