The NDP: not a Socialist Party

The day after the elections is always full of altercations about the victorious party. This year was no exception.  However, the name that dominated student mingling– the explicit difference between this year and all others — was the New Democratic Party. The phrases that permeated every discussion consisted of uninformed assumptions such as “socialism” and…

China’s Bans: Communism at its best

I recently returned from a trip to China and don’t get me wrong, it was pretty great. But along the way, I was hoping to keep in touch with the Western world and my friends, but nah, that didn’t really happen. Want to know why? Because China bans that stuff. It wasn’t until I reached…

What is Socialism?

Like capitalism, socialism is another commonly used word in politics. But this word has been misused to such a great extend that it is seen as synonymous with communism. Socialism is the economic system where the means of production and resources are publicly owned. Citizen may work to produce the goods and services but the…

A tribute to Social Studies 30

Social Studies 30 was one of the best high school courses I could have ever taken!  Well, for a military and history buff like me, learning about the interesting topics of the Cold War, totalitarianism and the many methods employed by dictators and their regimes, political ideologies from autonomous Communism to lassiez- faire Capitalism, economics,…