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Sep 2023
57m 36s

Democratic Rights and Socialism

Cosmonaut Magazine
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Gil Schaeffer responds to Renzo Llorente's "The Contradictions and Confusions of 'Democratic Socialism" and argues that socialists need to base their politics on a coherent ethical theory of democratic rights.
Read by: Will
Intro Music: ворожное озеро Гроза vwqp remix
Outro Music: We are Friends Forever performed by Felix Dzerzhinsky Guards Regiment.

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