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The Socialist Alternative
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The Socialist Alternative
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The Socialist Alternative
Michael A. Lebowitz
Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781583672150
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“A good society,“ Michael Lebowitz tells us, “is one that permits the full development of human potential.” In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, he argues persuasively that such a society is possible. That capitalism fails his definition of a good society is evident from even a cursory examination of its main features. What comes first in capitalism is not human development but privately accumulated profits by a tiny minority of the population. When there is a conflict between profits and human development, profits take precedence. Just ask the unemployed, those toiling at dead-end jobs, the sick and infirm, the poor, and the imprisoned. But if not capitalism, what? Lebowitz is also critical of those societies that have proclaimed their socialism, such as the former Soviet Union and China. While their systems were not capitalist and were capable of achieving some of what is necessary for the “development of human potential,” they were not “good societies.” A good society as Lebowitz defines it must be marked by three characteristics: social ownership of the means of production, social production controlled by workers, and satisfaction of communal needs and purposes. Lebowitz shows how these characteristics interact with and reinforce one another, and asks how they can be developed to the point where they occur more or less automatically—that is, become both a society’s premises and outcomes. He also offers fascinating insights into matters such as the nature of wealth, the illegitimacy of profits, the inadequacies of worker-controlled enterprises, the division of labor, and much more.
The Socialist Alternative
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Socialism
ISBN : OCLC:53885049
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Socialism: The Only Practical Alternative to Contemporary Capitalism
Tatah Mentan
Author : Tatah Mentan
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789956727346
Socialism: The Only Practical Alternative to Contemporary Capitalism by Tatah Mentan Pdf
Since the end of World War II, global capitalism, spearheaded by US financial interests and backed by the most lethal military force that has ever been assembled, has consolidated its power over the world economy. In the past decades, especially, transnational corporations have tightened their control over national governments and international institutions. The imposition of free trade policies and the increasing privatization of social services have facilitated the accumulation of fabulous wealth for the owners of capital at the expense of working people and the environment worldwide. Contemporary capitalism now dominates every major sector of the world economy. The social and environmental costs of contemporary capitalism are prohibitive. The global megatrends of rising inequality and absolute poverty, political instability, and global climate changeall compounded and accelerated by this predatory mode of productionare adversely affecting the lives and threatening the future of every inhabitant of nations and the entire world. In view of these megatrends and the current global economic crisis, the conclusion that contemporary capitalism does not serve the interests of the vast majority of the people on the planet and is both economically and environmentally unsustainable, is self-evident. History offers harsh lessons. The political violence of the 20th century, which resulted in an estimated 200 million deaths and untold economic and environmental destruction, cautions us to work for socialism in the 21st century with every means at our disposal except violence. Facing the awful power and willingness of capitalism to coerce and corrupt, we must find ways to make soft power prevail. Clearly, a revolution is in orderit is time to place the socialist alternative on the national and world agenda.
Bigger Than Bernie
Micah Uetricht,Meagan Day
Author : Micah Uetricht,Meagan Day
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788738408
Bigger Than Bernie by Micah Uetricht,Meagan Day Pdf
The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House. Since Bernie first entered the presidential primaries in 2016, his supporters have worked to organize a revolution intended to encourage the active participation of millions of ordinary people in political life. That revolution is already underway, as evidenced by the massive growth of the Democratic Socialists of America, the teachers Bernie motivated to lead strikes across red and blue states, and the rising new generation of radicals in Congress—led by AOC and Ilhan Omar—inspired by his example. In Bigger than Bernie, activist writers Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht give us an intimate map of this emerging movement to remake American politics top to bottom, profiling the grassroots organizers who are building something bigger, and more ambitious, than the career of any one candidate. As participants themselves, Day and Uetricht provide a serious analysis of the prospects for long-term change, offering a strategy for making “political revolution” more than just a campaign slogan. They provide a road map for how to entrench democratic socialism in the halls of power and in our own lives. Bigger than Bernie offers unmatched insights into the people behind the most unique campaign in modern American history and a clear-eyed sense of how the movement can sustain itself for the long haul.
The Socialist Alternative
Robert Bollard
Author : Robert Bollard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Socialism
ISBN : 0646324667
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The Socialist Alternative
Herbert W. Vilakazi
Author : Herbert W. Vilakazi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Economic development
ISBN : UIUC:30112107028935
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The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia
Elizabeth White
Author : Elizabeth White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136905735
The Socialist Alternative to Bolshevik Russia by Elizabeth White Pdf
The Socialist Revolutionary party, which had been the largest and most popular party in Russia in 1917, did not after the October Revolution just disappear into the "dustbin of history", as Trotsky hoped, but – led by its leadership in exile in the 1920s and 1930s – continued to observe and comment on developments in Russia. In emigration, the Socialist Revolutionary (SR) party often put forward policy proposals on a wide range of topics: policies which, based on a shrewd understanding of the real situation in Russia, offered realistic alternatives to the policies being pursued by the Marxist Bolshevik regime. This book fills a gap in examining one of the most significant Russian political parties, and is based on extensive original analysis of SR party materials, shows how it operated; how it formulated and disseminated its ideas; what these ideas were, and how the party's ideas developed in response to changing circumstances in Russia and Europe more widely. Far from being the agrarian Slavophile romantics as they are often portrayed, this book shows the SRs were energetic European modernisers who contributed vigorously to the leading debates of their day; it also shows how the SR vision of a populist, socialist regime failed to materialise as state control, dictatorship and the collectivisation of agriculture took hold.
The Socialist Alternative
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Puerto Rico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172145940159
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Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives
Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Author : Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787353831
Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives by Peter J. S. Duncan,Elisabeth Schimpfössl Pdf
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil. Through analysis of post-socialist Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, as well as of the United Kingdom, China and the United States, Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives confronts the difficulty we face in articulating alternatives to capitalism, socialism and threatening populist regimes. Beginning with accounts of the impact of capitalism on countries left behind by the planned economies, the volume moves on to consider how China has become a beacon of dynamic economic growth, aggressively expanding its global influence. The final section of the volume poses alternatives to the ideological dominance of neoliberalism in the West. Since the 2008 financial crisis, demands for social change have erupted across the world. Exposing the failure of neoliberalism in the United Kingdom and examining recent social movements in Europe and the United States, the closing chapters identify how elements of past ideas are re-emerging, among them Keynesianism and radical socialism. As those chapters indicate, these ideas might well have potential to mobilise support and challenge the dominance of neoliberalism.
The Return of Nature
John Bellamy Foster
Author : John Bellamy Foster
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583679289
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Winner, 2020 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize A fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx, it commenced an intellectual and social history, encompassing thinkers from Epicurus to Darwin, who developed materialist and ecological ideas. Now, with The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Foster continues this narrative. In so doing, he uncovers a long history of efforts to unite issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that will help us comprehend and counter today’s unprecedented planetary emergencies. The Return of Nature begins with the deaths of Darwin (1882) and Marx (1883) and moves on until the rise of the ecological age in the 1960s and 1970s. Foster explores how socialist analysts and materialist scientists of various stamps, first in Britain, then the United States, from William Morris and Frederick Engels to Joseph Needham, Rachel Carson, and Stephen J. Gould, sought to develop a dialectical naturalism, rooted in a critique of capitalism. In the process, he delivers a far-reaching and fascinating reinterpretation of the radical and socialist origins of ecology. Ultimately, what this book asks for is nothing short of revolution: a long, ecological revolution, aimed at making peace with the planet while meeting collective human needs.
The Socialist Imperative
Michael A. Lebowitz
Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583675465
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In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of “Real Socialism.” Here, he develops and deepens the analysis contained in those pathbreaking works by tracing major issues in socialist thought from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first. Lebowitz explores the obvious but almost universally ignored fact that as human beings work together to produce society’s goods and services, we also “produce” something else: namely, ourselves. Human beings are shaped by circumstances, and any vision of socialism that ignores this fact is bound to fail, or, at best, reproduce the alienation of labor that is endemic to capitalism. But how can people transform their circumstances in a way that allows them to re-organize production and, at the same time, fulfill their human potential? Lebowitz sets out to answer this question first by examining Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme, and from there investigates the experiences of the Soviet Union and more recent efforts to build socialism in Venezuela. He argues that socialism in the twenty-first century must be animated by a central vision, in three parts: social ownership of the means of production, social production organized by workers, and the satisfaction of communal needs and communal purposes. These essays repay careful reading and reflection, and prove Lebowitz to be one of the foremost Marxist thinkers of this era.
The Socialist Alternative for Canada
George Addison
Author : George Addison
Publisher : Vanguard Publications
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Socialism
ISBN : LCCN:75317969
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Building a Socialist Alternative
Alan Thornett
Author : Alan Thornett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Socialism
ISBN : OCLC:1435975253
