Arguing Quote by Cynthia Kauffman

The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with…

— Cynthia Kauffman

I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for…

— Cynthia Kauffman

States can be more or less democratic, and so can socialism. I think any ideal society that exists on a large scale, which is…

— Cynthia Kauffman

I tend to not use the word "socialist," because even though more young adults in the United States in a poll say they support…

— Cynthia Kauffman

We need to hold in our hearts the possibility of a better world, not because we have candy-coated the problems or lied about what…

— Cynthia Kauffman

Anarchism as the name for an ideal total social form is a really complicated question. I have never found satisfying answers from anarchists about…

— Cynthia Kauffman

We see ourselves as inhabiting a complex social world that has some capitalist things going on in it as well as some socialist ones,…

— Cynthia Kauffman

Things like water and sewage systems require states in a large-scale society, but states are also a good mechanism for dealing with health care,…

— Cynthia Kauffman

The terms socialist and communist are mostly about describing the world we want after capitalism, and I think they are both important.

— Cynthia Kauffman

In Marxism there are some very unhelpful ideas about the need to push for a revolution that will overturn all of society. Marx gets…

— Cynthia Kauffman

Yes it is true that pro-capitalist forces have a lot of power. But so did slave-holding racists. We give ourselves hope when we conceptualize…

— Cynthia Kauffman

I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think…

— Cynthia Kauffman