Imagine a country with a dictatorial government introduced some completely irrational and destructive policy. Let’s say, they ban modern medicines, … Continue reading “No – “democratic” socialism doesn’t work either”

For most of this week, my social media feed has been more or less evenly divided between apologists of Fidel … Continue reading “Cuba after Castro: Democratisation as the next stage of the revolution? Not happening, Comrade Jones”

I’ve got an idea for an alternative history novel, an alternate timeline in which the fall of the Berlin Wall … Continue reading “An alternative history: what ‘democratic socialism’ would have looked like”

Bernie Sanders has single-handedly brought the term “democratic socialism” into the contemporary American political lexicon and shaken millions of Millennials … Continue reading “The Myth of Scandinavian Socialism”