Socialisms, Differing Cocepts of!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There is growing interest in alternatives to capitalism as the growing inequality of income and wealth, the obscenity of extreme wealth and widespread poverty, the global environmental crisis, the meaningless of most jobs, institutionalized racism, the growing isolation of people and the continued oppression of women and LGBT people are increasingly apparent. These crises are integrally connected to global capitalism. In the United States and beyond, there is a renewed interest in socialism as an alternative economic and social system that can be seen in poll after poll. This is an exciting and important development.<\/p>\n
Yet, what is meant by socialism is vague and differs greatly from person to person and group to group. In this essay, I will present my understanding of socialism and apply it to critique three common types of societies that are commonly called socialist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9,1,10,11,14],"tags":[69,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}