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Society for Socialist Studies (Canada) call for papers
Quote:Rekindling the Socialist Imagination
29 May to 1 June, Regina
This year the Society for Socialist Studies meets on Treaty Four territory and the homeland of the Métis. Regina is where the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation penned its 1932 Regina Manifesto, which laid out a program for eradicating capitalism and replacing it with a planned socialist economy. It is also the site of the 1935 riot, which resulted when homeless and unemployed men demanding dignified work by trekking across Canada to Ottawa were stopped and attacked by the RCMP and city police. The symbolism associated with the Regina location of this meeting gives us a chance to re-evaluate the past and present of socialisms. In this moment of severe austerity in Saskatchewan and elsewhere, we are in desperate need for new and rekindled visions of just socialist futures.
This year we invite papers inspired by broad socialist traditions including anti-racist, feminist, eco-socialist, and anti-colonial, and we encourage conversations between socialisms and other freedom struggles, including Indigenous and Black liberation struggles, among others. We especially encourage papers that look at the successes and failures of past and present socialisms, from the CCF’s slide toward social democracy to the current enthusiasm for democratic socialism in the US and UK. We invite critical reflections on what has been left out of socialist visions and how we might put social movements, ecology, decolonization, and opposition to all forms of oppression squarely at the centre of our rekindled socialist movements, theorizing, and praxis.
We welcome submissions to our open sessions as well as independent papers. To submit a paper proposal, complete this form electronically and submit it as a file attachment to rosa1919@uvic.ca by midnight (Pacific time) at the end of January 31, 2018. Please place the words “Call for Papers” in first place in the subject heading. If you know the paper is being included in a sessions proposal, you DO NOT have to submit a separate form for the paper.
jondwhite wrote:Society for Socialist Studies (Canada) call for papersQuote:Rekindling the Socialist Imagination 29 May to 1 June, Regina This year the Society for Socialist Studies meets on Treaty Four territory and the homeland of the Métis. Regina is where the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation penned its 1932 Regina Manifesto, which laid out a program for eradicating capitalism and replacing it with a planned socialist economy. It is also the site of the 1935 riot, which resulted when homeless and unemployed men demanding dignified work by trekking across Canada to Ottawa were stopped and attacked by the RCMP and city police. The symbolism associated with the Regina location of this meeting gives us a chance to re-evaluate the past and present of socialisms. In this moment of severe austerity in Saskatchewan and elsewhere, we are in desperate need for new and rekindled visions of just socialist futures.This year we invite papers inspired by broad socialist traditions including anti-racist, feminist, eco-socialist, and anti-colonial, and we encourage conversations between socialisms and other freedom struggles, including Indigenous and Black liberation struggles, among others. We especially encourage papers that look at the successes and failures of past and present socialisms, from the CCF’s slide toward social democracy to the current enthusiasm for democratic socialism in the US and UK. We invite critical reflections on what has been left out of socialist visions and how we might put social movements, ecology, decolonization, and opposition to all forms of oppression squarely at the centre of our rekindled socialist movements, theorizing, and praxis.We welcome submissions to our open sessions as well as independent papers. To submit a paper proposal, complete this form electronically and submit it as a file attachment to rosa1919@uvic.ca by midnight (Pacific time) at the end of January 31, 2018. Please place the words “Call for Papers” in first place in the subject heading. If you know the paper is being included in a sessions proposal, you DO NOT have to submit a separate form for the paper.Although I would not discourage genuine Socialists from submitting the genuine Socialist case, it sounds like another group of reformists and shitehawks, who wouldn't know what Socialism was if they found themselves in one of William Morris's bloody dreams. They refer to the CDF with some degree of admiration (the CDF were a precursor party to the NDP, the Canadian 3rd Party)Is it just me, but this kind of equating Socialism with every kind of identity politics, really boils my piss.I may be turning into a grumpy old bastard, but for fuck's sake, don't these people have any shame? I mean, at least have the good grace to read a book or two before proclaiming you're a bleedin' Socialist!!!
Both JDWhite and Alan Johnson have a laissez faire approach when it comes to deciding if an individual or organisation is socialist. The criterion appears to be 'if it calls itself Socialist, then it is'. Not that I'm criticising either of these gentlemen of course. Just making an observation.
On the contrary, when non-socialist organisations calling themselves socialist call for submissions of papers, I encourage SPGB members to do so. There's no endorsement from me of these organisations as socialist, but there's also no point in hiding our light under a bushel whilst bemoaning the lack of opportunities for spreading the message.
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