communism vs socialism

• Right and Left Wings in Libertarianism/La Droite Et La Gauche Dans Le Liberalisme

In Political Science one can observe various discourses to defining the essence of libertarianism, which are based on (Boaz, 1998) different philosophical approaches to the institutions of central political power (especially the state). Today, interpretations of right-libertarian ideological complex are most popular in the scientific literature and in the popular imagination. Yet, since the middle of 19th century - the concept of libertarianism had been used in a left political context, and only in 1950s its right ideological context use came into fashion. The authors consider the left libertarianism (libertarian socialism) as series of theoretical principles and the socio-political practices aimed at the liberation of both individuals and collectives of people from various kinds of opp...

... «collectivism») and «libertarian communism»4, RA. Kropotkin being the leading ideologist of the...

• Canadian Social Science
• Vol. 5 Nbr. 6, November 2009

• 1940s Attacks On Ccf a Perfect Storm of Red-Baiting

It may be that [Hugh McFadyen] had gotten his hands on [John Boyko]'s Into the Hurricane, a book whose central argument is that the CCF (the forerunner to the NDP), on the verge of a national political breakthrough in the 1940s, was thrown into a terminal decline by the ferocity of the attack mounted on it by the business community. The work of both men stressed that the CCF was a foreign ideology that would establish complete control over every aspect of life in Canada. When [Murray] and [Burdick Trestrail] weren't proclaiming the CCF to be a Canadian variant of Soviet Communism, they were busy drawing dire comparisons with Hitler's national socialism. Even without the hurricane of abuse, to use Boyko's image, the federal Liberal party's ability to adopt -- at a very slow pace -- key e...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 12, 2009

• Understanding North Korea: perception vs. reality.

... as a significant improvement on communism. It was so successful in its beginnings that North... deep in the heartland of self-reliant socialism must be disconcerting. The government is no longer...

• Behind the Headlines
• Vol. 60 Nbr. 1, September 2002