Online Talk: What is Socialism Today? [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: Presentations/Discussions
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Ronald Aronson
The capitalist market instructs us to an individualism that undercuts an understanding that we are social beings whose lives are interconnected. We are told that there are no collective solutions to collective problems. That indeed, problems are due to individual failings. This is the neoliberal ideology that has shaped public consciousness for the last four decades.
Yet in spite of that, a counter consciousness has arisen, particularly among the young – an identity formed against the prevailing individualism. It is an awareness that such problems as climate change cannot be solved by individual action, that the ever increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of a few is not the result of the great talent of the rich, that the poverty of the many is not deserved. Rather, we all live in a social world interconnected materially and morally and the idea that we all are separate and on our own is a fantasy. This is the wellspring from which a socialist consciousness has sprouted.
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