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| | style="padding-right:5px;" width="61%" |<div style="font-size:200%; text-align:center; font-variant:small-caps; ">Welcome to Leftypedia</div><div style=" font-size:120%; text-align: center;" ><hr style="color: #BFBFBF; background-color: ##BFBFBF;" />''The online encyclopedia dedicated to providing a coherent platform for leftist politics''</div><hr style="background-color: #BFBFBF;" /> | | Following the [[Collapse of the Eastern Bloc|collapse of hitherto-existing socialism]] in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, there was a crisis in socialist economic thought. If we contrast the situation of the 1990s with what had existed 40 years earlier, we see that whilst in the 1950s, socialism and [[economic planning]] were almost universally accepted, even by enemies of socialism, as being viable ways to organize an economy, by the 1990s the reverse applied. Among orthodox opinion it was now taken for granted that socialism was the "god that failed" and that socialist economic forms, when judged in the balance of history, had been found wanting. And among socialist theorists there was a general retreat from ideas that had previously been taken for granted, a movement towards [[Market socialism|market socialist]] ideas, an accommodation with the idea that the market was a neutral economic mechanism. |
| <strong><div style="text-align:center; font-size:120%;">Our aims:</div></strong>
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| *Document and propagate left-wing theory from a variety of different tendencies, and thus contribute to a more unified leftist movement in which no view is misrepresented
| | Whilst accommodation to the market was, to anyone familiar with Marx, completely at odds with his critique of civil society[44], it nonetheless gained considerable credence. Former governing socialist parties, thrown suddenly into opposition in [[Post-socialist states|renascent capitalist states]], felt that they had to restrict their ambitions to reforms within a market economy.</div> |
| *De-mystify dense theoretical texts by engaging in direct analysis of primary sources while also providing readily understandable-explanations
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| *Create original leftist theory and discourse
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| <div style="text-align:center;">In short, to <strong>let the left-wing movement do the talking and expound upon it.</strong></div>
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| :Ideas for improvements to the site, interesting content, or new pages you'd like to see go here.
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| :The Essay namespace will make it easy for leftists to share resources, arguments, and rhetoric in one place. Work in progress!
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| *[[Organizing]]
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| *[https://www.marxists.org/ Marxist Internet Archive]
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| *[http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/Online University of the Left]
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| *[https://bannedthought.net/ bannedthought.net]
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| *[https://archive.org/details/@ismail_badiou Books scanned by Ismail from eregime.org that were uploaded to archive.org]
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| *[https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/ The Great Soviet Encyclopedia]: Articles from the GSE tend to be towards the bottom. [http://bse.sci-lib.com/ Russian version]
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| *[http://wiki.istmat.info/ Мифы истории СССР: Russian-language wiki on myths about Soviet history]
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| *[https://www.ecured.cu/ EcuRed: Cuba's online encyclopedia]
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| *[https://libcom.org/book Books on libcom.org]
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| *[https://libgen.is/ Library Genesis]
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| *[https://massline.org/Dictionary/index.htm Dictionary of Revolutionary Marxism]
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