Socialist System News Today

13 posts published by Jerry during May 2012

What is socialist economics in the context of Cuba, China, and North Korea?

Members of Congress are calling on the American CIA to declassify its documents related to Pinochet’s coup.

John Bellamy Foster — The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress.

In the introduction to this summer's special issue on "Planned Degrowth," John Bellamy Foster outlines the major themes of degrowth thought, including…

Lu Shaye’s gaffe underlines a serious problem: China’s complete refusal to acknowledge the abuses of the Soviet Union is impacting foreign policy decisions.

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The great Hungarian economist János Kornai, who passed away in October 2021, was a pioneering analyst of shortages, socialist economies and the economics of transition to a market economy. This column outlines what made him one of the most important intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Just minutes before his plane was about to take off from pyongyang to beijing. heres the latest from tokyo. >> reporter: miguel, state media report that the north korean authorities are accusing american retiree merrill newman of hospitalities towards north korea. they say he infringed national sovereignty and dignity and also slaunderred the socialist system. now all that sounds a little like political mumbo jumbo until you look at the detail of what exactly theyre accusing him of. focusing hea...

A new video released by the north korean government shows a captured american apologizing for korean war crimes. 85-year-old merrill newman has been held for about a month. the korean war veteran was taken into custody just minutes before his plane was scheduled to take off last month. cnns karl plive with the lates. >> reporter: north korea state report accuse veteran merrill newman of host yifts toethz north korea, saying he infringed insort and dignity and slandered the socialist system. all ...