Apresentação do blogue “Sítio com Vista”

Há muitas perguntas relevantes para a sobrevivência e a melhoria das condições de vida da humanidade no nosso planeta para as quais vale a pena procurar, com afinco, uma resposta. Neste blogue só nos ocuparemos de duas delas, não porque…

Introducing the blog “A Site with a View”

There are many questions relevant to the survival and improvement of humanity’s living conditions on our planet for which it is worth looking hard for an answer. In this blog we will only address of two of them, not because…

Crise do Socialismo no Mundo

«O socialismo morreu. Falar dele é fazer a sua oração fúnebre». Esta frase, que podia ter sido publicada na Folha de São Paulo de hoje, foi escrita por um obscuro jornalista francês, Louis Reybaud, em 1854. O socialismo estava então morto no…

Democratic Planned Socialism: Feasible Economic Procedures

Introduction Over the years, many socialists have written about the undesirability or impossibility of using markets in an authentic  socialist society. Well-known early advocates of this position include Marx (1875), Bellamy (1888), Kautsky (1892), Bukkarin and Preobrazhensky (1919), and Neurath…

Marx and Engels’  Vision of a Better Society
Marx and Engels in the printing office of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. 1848. Oil canvas by E.N. Sapiro.

Marx and Engels’ Vision of a Better Society

Abstract.  Not withstanding their much noted aversion to detailing the nature of a post-capitalist society, Marx and Engels indeed have a broad vision of such a better society that both runs through and informs their entire lives' work. It is…

The Boom of Commons-based Peer Production

In 1991, an undergraduate Finnish computer science student, Linus Torvalds, had a surprising idea: he began to write a new operating system on his PC. His initial goal was to be able to try some things that weren’t possible with…