Perspectives is a journal for political economy and social democracy by the Broadbent Institute. Our publication brings boldly left-wing ideas and inquiry into public debates and policy fora for building a Canada that is just and equitable, based on the Broadbent Principles for Canadian Social Democracy. We present commentary, long-form analysis, interviews, and other content to help inform strategists, organizers, academics, and policymakers of the theory, practice, and tactics that can be ...
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In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.
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Profits, Inflation and Survival in an Age of Emergencies with Isabella Weber
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The 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Thursday, May 30th in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Interim Dean of Arts Amy Peng for hosting this Broadbent Institute event. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left’s foremost theorists on democracy and history, and often promoted the ide…
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The Rise of Investor Ownership and the Housing Crisis with Jeremy Withers
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The housing crisis is apparent for most ordinary Canadians, especially for those paying rents and mortgages that feel increasingly out of reach. Recent data shows that among wealthy countries, Canada's housing cost increases have seen the fastest decoupling from income growth, and with that accelerated price inflation, according to Jeremy Withers, …
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Is Canada Falling Behind on Green Industrial Policy? with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
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To help make Canada into a “good society,” Ed Broadbent was a major proponent of “industrial strategy” throughout the 1970s and 80s as leader of Canada’s NDP, to use this policy vision for social democratic change and challenge the dominance of market mechanisms, ultimately to the working-class the tools to build a just and equal economic democracy…
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Profits? Productivity? Affordability? Talking Economics with Angella MacEwen
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In today’s apparently well-performing capitalist economy, working-class ordinary Canadians aren’t feeling like they live in a "Good Society" and acutely feel these economic pressures. Price inflation, lagging productivity, and record profits. These are the economic indicators that policymakers use to say that the economy is doing so well, and which…
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Democracy, Participation and Capitalist Crisis: An Interview with Nancy Fraser
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This conversation with Nancy Fraser explores her work on the crises of capitalism, democracy, and participation. She is interviewed by Nick Vlahos, Deputy Director at the Center for Democracy Innovation, and Adrian Bua, Marie Curie-Sklodowska Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ahead of their forthcoming co-edited special volume of th…
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More great books at LoyalBooks.comPor Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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02: Provisional Revolutionary Government
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03: What Is A Decisive Victory of the Revolution Over Tsarism?
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04: The Abolition of the Monarchist System and the Republic
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05: How Should the Revolution Be Pushed Forward?
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06: From What Direction is the Proletariat Threatened With the Danger of Having Its Hands Ties In the Struggle Against the Inconsistent Bourgeoisie?
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07: The Tactics of Eliminating the Conservatives From the Government
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08: Osvobozhdeniye-ism and New Iskra-ism
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09: What Does Being a Party of Extreme Opposition in Time of Revolution Mean?
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10: Revolutionary Communes and the Revolutionary-Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and the Peasantry
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Competition and Co-ops: MP Daniel Blaikie on Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act
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Earlier this fall, the federal Liberal government tabled Bill C-56, the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, with the aim of jump starting construction of purpose built rental homes with a GST rebate on these kinds of projects, and increasing competition in the grocery industry by strengthening the federal Competition Bureau, upgrading its ability…
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11: A Cursory Comparison Between Several of the Resolutions of the Third Congress of the RSDLP and Those of the Conference
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12: Will the Sweep of the Democratic Revolution Be Diminished If the Bourgeoisie Recoils From It?
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What Progressives Are Getting Wrong (and Right!) About Affordable Housing with Professor Carolyn Whitzman
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Perspectives Journal sat down with Professor Carolyn Whitzman to dive deeper into her Globe and Mail article published last August entitled Canada’s progressive parties have lost the plot on the housing crisis. This was a response to Prime Minister Trudeau’s earlier blunt statement that “housing is not federal responsibility” while ordinary Canadia…
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14: What Do the Bourgeois Liberal Realists Praise the Social-Democratic Realists For?
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15: Comrade Martynov Again Renders the Question More Profound
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16: The Vulgar Bourgeois Representation of the Dictatorship and Marx’s View of It
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On October 17th, 2023 the Green Economy Network, a coalition of labour, environmental, and social justice organizations working to build a green economy in Canada, held a workshop in Ottawa at the Canadian Labour Congress to present its updated “Common Platform”, an action plan for investments in job creation and emissions reductions in key economi…
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Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality with Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage
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In this episode, we’ll take you to the book launch event of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality, held on October 22nd, 2023 at the Toronto Reference Library featuring co-authors Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas, and Luke Savage. The quartet of authors take you behind the scenes of the book, explaining the impe…
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Care Worker Activism with Professor Ethel Tungohan
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Perspectives Journal chats with Broadbent Institute Policy Fellow Ethel Tungohan; Canada Research Chair in Canadian Migration Policy, Impacts and Activism, and Professor of Politics at York University. Her new book released late this summer is called Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building and Communities of Care, published by Un…
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Pharmacare Showdown with MP Don Davies
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At the federal New Democratic Party’s 2023 convention held October 13-15 in Hamilton, Ontario, party membership voted unanimously for the NDP to withdraw support of the Liberal government’s Confidence and Supply Agreement, holding the minority Parliament together, if they do not deliver on a universal, comprehensive public national Pharmacare progr…
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Seeking Social Democracy - An Interview with Ed Broadbent
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Perspectives spoke to Ed Broadbent, founder of the Broadbent Institute, former leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, and co-author of Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality. Part memoir, part history, part political manifesto, Seeking Social Democracy offers the first full-length treatment of Ed Broadbent’s ideas …
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Progressive Governance with British Columbia Premier David Eby
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How does a social democratic government in British Columbia deliver on principles of justice and equality for its people? From sustainable economic development in the face of the climate crisis, to the pandemic measures, to the housing affordability crisis and public safety, the Broadbent Institute hosted British Columbia Premier David Eby for a fi…
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2023 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture ft. Armine Yalnizyan
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This edition of the Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was held on Tuesday, May 23rd at an event in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Arts. A special thanks to TMU Dean of Arts Pamela Sugiman for hosting this Broadbent Institute event. Ellen Meiksins Wood was one of the left's foremost theorists on democracy and history, and of…
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Amazon Labor Union's Chris Smalls at Progress Summit 2023
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Chris Smalls is taking on billionaires and organizing workers for justice. Smalls is the founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. Smalls was formerly an Amazon warehouse supervisor, but was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against the company’s unsafe pan…
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