{"id":28148,"date":"2019-10-17T10:15:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=28148"},"modified":"2019-10-17T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:19:29","slug":"economic-update-worker-co-ops-socialisms-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/10\/17\/economic-update-worker-co-ops-socialisms-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Update: Worker Co-Ops, Socialism&#8217;s Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>YouTube <\/em>has the video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5I45KVLe2Vo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Economic Update: Worker Co-Ops, Socialism&#8217;s Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you learned about socialism in the 20th century, or heard the propaganda about it that continues, then perhaps it will be a good idea to learn what it means now. Socialism is changing in ways that most people in the USA don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5I45KVLe2Vo\" style=\"border: thick ridge #009900;\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was wondering if Bernie Sanders is even aware of these changes. Then I thought about his experiences in his youth with a kibbutz in Israel. I&#8217;m no expert on the way a kibbutz works, but I suspect there is a lot of similarity to what Richard Wolff describes in this talk (only as far as how production was organized). <\/p>\n<p>Here is a little snippet from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernie_Sanders\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia article on Bernie Sanders<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn 1963 Sanders and Deborah Shiling Messing, whom he met in college, volunteered for several months on the Israeli kibbutz Sha&#8217;ar HaAmakim.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has the video Economic Update: Worker Co-Ops, Socialism&#8217;s Future. If you learned about socialism in the 20th century, or heard the propaganda about it that continues, then perhaps it will be a good idea to learn what it means now. Socialism is changing in ways that most people in the USA don&#8217;t know. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28149,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28148\/revisions\/28149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}