The Red Continent

A Short Thought on Socialism and Human Nature

by Rick Gunderman Socialism is 100% compatible with human nature – “human nature”, if any interpretation of the term is actually a real thing, is to band together in groups for mutual aid to ensure survival. This is a characteristic of absolutely every living creature on the planet, and only industrial capitalism has forced us [...]

Posted at 6:03 pm on October 16, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Theory | Tagged: assembly, bonuses, capitalism, central planning, collapse, constituent, corporation, democracy, democratic, economy, human nature, industry, laid-off, lay-off, livelihood, majority, management, mass, means of production, mutual aid, North American, organizations, planet, production, socialism, survival | read on

Universal Healthcare, now!

by Cliff Cawthon Sabotaging universal healthcare reform is enabling the tyranny of a broken system. Conservatives and their Libertarian pets have menaced the public square as fear mongers that would have made Goebbels blush. What’s scarier than their imagined totalitarianism is that 46 to 50 million Americans are uninsured and for many of us it [...]

Posted at 4:04 pm on September 12, 2009 | leave a comment | Filed Under: health care, US politics | Tagged: accountability, Administration, administrative, alienation, bait and switch, campaign, centrist, chemotherapy, Chris Lee, civil rights, Colorado, competition, congressman, Conservative, contributions, cooperative, coverage, Democracy Now, Democratic Party, DNC, England, France, fraudulent, Goebbels, health, healthcare, Howard Dean, illness, institution, insurance, libertarian, national, National Public Radio, NHS, non-for-profit, Obama, physicians, Physicians for a National Health Program, private, program, public, radical, sickness, single-payer, social justice, Stephen Hawking, struggle, subsidize, totalitarianism, town hall, universal, Western | read on

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The Red Continent is a blog, updated daily, that works in pursuit of agitating revolutions throughout the Americas, particularly Anglo-America (English Canada, the United States of America, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, etc.).

The Red Continent promotes national self-determination for all people through forms of direct democracy and workers’ self-management. The Red Continent believes that this is the only way to truly grant full power to the people. To this end, all forms of authoritarianism must be broken down, but we also stand in opposition to bourgeois, “representative” liberal democracy, which only empowers politicians and those who can buy their support.

The Red Continent is sympathetic to, but maintains no official affiliation with, the United Socialist Movement of the Americas. The Red Continent is a member of the Pan-Americas Socialist Press.