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Synthetic Socialism
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Author : Eli Rubin
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Synthetic Socialism written by Eli Rubin and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with History categories.
Eli Rubin takes an innovative approach to consumer culture to explore questions of political consensus and consent and the impact of ideology on everyday life in the former East Germany. Synthetic Socialism explores the history of East Germany through the production and use of a deceptively simple material: plastic. Rubin investigates the connections between the communist government, its Bauhaus-influenced designers, its retooled postwar chemical industry, and its general consumer population. He argues that East Germany was neither a totalitarian state nor a niche society but rather a society shaped by the confluence of unique economic and political circumstances interacting with the concerns of ordinary citizens. To East Germans, Rubin says, plastic was a high-technology material, a symbol of socialism's scientific and economic superiority over capitalism. Most of all, the state and its designers argued, plastic goods were of a particularly special quality, not to be thrown away like products of the wasteful West. Rubin demonstrates that this argument was accepted by the mainstream of East German society, for whom the modern, socialist dimension of a plastics-based everyday life had a deep resonance.
Now The Synthesis
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Author : Richard Noyes
language : en
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Now The Synthesis written by Richard Noyes and has been published by Holmes & Meier Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Ten essays echo the principal doctrine of the American political economist and social reformer, Henry George, who more than a hundred years ago proposed a philosophy that was set aside in favor of Marxism. George's thinking on the environment is discussed as well as land policy, agriculture, protectionism and international trade. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Self Governing Socialism Historical Development Social And Political Philosophy
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Author : Branko Horvat
language : en
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Release Date : 1975
Self Governing Socialism Historical Development Social And Political Philosophy written by Branko Horvat and has been published by M.E. Sharpe this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
First published in 1975. VOLUME ONE covers Historical Development Social and Political Philosophy. No study or collection of material approaching self-government as a worldwide phenomenon and dealing with all The purpose of the present Reader is to fill this gap. This Reader traces the development self-government as a worldwide phenomenon and dealing with all This Reader traces the development of self-government from its beginnings as an apparently utopian idea of a handful of visionaries a century and a half ago to its implementation on a national scale in the contemporary world. All fundamental aspects of this development are dealt with--historical, philosophical, sociological, political, and economic. Contributions from some twenty countries are included. Several synthetic papers have been written especially for this book; because of their inclusion, as well as the comprehensiveness of the book's coverage, this work transcends the usual confines of a reader.The edtiors' goal was to assemble all important contributions of historical and theoretical value in one book.
Socialism
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language : en
Publisher: Laissez Faire Books
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Socialism written by and has been published by Laissez Faire Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
A Future For Socialism
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Author : John E. Roemer
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1994
A Future For Socialism written by John E. Roemer and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Business & Economics categories.
In this text, Roemer proposes a new future of socialism based on a redefinition of market socialism. The Achille's heel of socialism has always been maintaining innovation and efficiency in an economy in which income is equally distributed. Roemer points out that large capitalist firms have already solved a similar problem: in those firms, profits are distributed to numerous shareholders, yet they continue to innovate and compete. The author argues for a modified version of socialism, not necessarily based on public ownership, but founded on equality of opportunity and political influence.
The Socialist Alternative
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Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-07
The Socialist Alternative written by Michael A. Lebowitz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Philosophy categories.
“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.
Socialism
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Author : Friedrich Engels
language : en
Publisher: Resistance Books
Release Date : 1999
Socialism written by Friedrich Engels and has been published by Resistance Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
The New Communism
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Author : Bob Avakian
language : en
Publisher: Insight Press, Inc
Release Date : 2016-10-15
The New Communism written by Bob Avakian and has been published by Insight Press, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-15 with Communism categories.
Nominee: 2017 American Book Fest, Best Book Awards. For anyone who cares about the state of the world and the condition of humanity and agonizes over whether fundamental change is really possible, this landmark work provides a sweeping and comprehensive orientation, foundation, and guide to making the most radical of revolutions: a communist revolution aimed at emancipating humanity—getting beyond all forms of oppression and exploitation on a world scale. The author, Bob Avakian, is the architect of a new synthesis of communism. This new synthesis is a continuation of, but also represents a qualitative leap beyond, and in some important ways a break with, communist theory as it had been previously developed. Avakian has written this book in such a way as to make even complex theory accessible to a broad audience. In this book, he draws on his decades of work advancing the science of communism and his experience as a revolutionary communist leader, including leading the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, as its Chairman since its founding in 1975. This is a pathbreaking work, one that scientifically analyzes the system of capitalism-imperialism and its unresolvable contradictions; confronts the challenges facing the movement for revolution; and forges a way forward to making an actual revolution in this country, as part of contributing to communist revolution internationally.
Socialism For A Sceptical Age
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Author : Ralph Miliband
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995
Socialism For A Sceptical Age written by Ralph Miliband and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Political Science categories.
The final book by the noted British Marxist and sociologist, father of British Labour Party politicians, David and Ed Miliband.
Socialism After Communism
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Author : Christopher Pierson
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 1995
Socialism After Communism written by Christopher Pierson and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Political Science categories.
Christopher Pierson assesses the evidence of terminal decline, but finds rather a whole series of deep-seated challenges to traditional forms of socialist and social democratic thinking. Above all, these problems are to be found in the political economy of social democracy and its commitment to incremental change in the context of an increasingly globalized market economy. The latter chapters of the book are devoted to an assessment of market socialism, one of the most vigorous and innovative attempts to seek to recast socialist aspirations under these quite changed circumstances. In essence, market socialism represents an attempt to reconcile new forms of social ownership with the seeming ubiquity of the market. Having outlined this position, Pierson carefully and systematically critiques it and, in the process, develops a set of distinctive arguments about the nature of social ownership, the potential of the labor-managed economy, and the appropriate forms for an extension of economic democracy.