The socialist imperative : from Gotha to now /

"In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from capitalism to socialism: Beyond Capital (winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of "Real Socialism." Here,...

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Main Author: Lebowitz, Michael A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Monthly Review Press, [2015]
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Table of Contents:
  • Building socialism: ideas and experiences. The capitalist nightmare and the socialist dream
  • Understanding the Critique of the Gotha Programme
  • Transcending the crisis of socialist economy
  • Contested reproduction and the contradictions of socialism
  • Proposing a path to socialism: two papers for Hugo Chávez
  • Socialism: the goal, the paths, and the compass
  • Struggling to build socialism now. What makes the working class a revolutionary subject
  • Three perspectives on democracy
  • The concept of "fairness": possibilities, limits, possibilities
  • The state and the future of socialism
  • End the system.