Is Socialism Feasible?
Is Socialism Feasible?

Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1789901626

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After being proclaimed dead, there is now a major revival of socialism ideology in the West. But what does socialism mean? This book shows that it is irretrievably associated with common ownership. The twentieth-century experience of comprehensive national planning with state ownership has been disastrous, and in no case has democracy endured within large-scale socialism. This volume explains why. The alternative socialist option of worker-owned cooperatives must accept a major role for markets that many socialists reject. Further experiments in that direction must be subordinate to higher principles of liberal solidarity, involving a mixed market economy with a welfare state.

Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage
Merriam-Webster's Concise Dictionary of English Usage

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13:

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A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.

The Heroic and Creative Meaning of Socialism
The Heroic and Creative Meaning of Socialism

Author: José Carlos Mariátegui

Publisher: Humanities Press International

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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Jose Carlos Mariategui (1894-1994), considered one of Latin America's great Marxist theoreticians and activists, remains nearly unknown in the English-speaking world. This short collection of his essays aims to introduce the philosopher and thinker to English-speaking students of history.

Socialism Sucks
Socialism Sucks

Author: Robert Lawson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2019-07-30

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1621579468

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The bastard step-child of Milton Friedman and Anthony Bourdain, Socialism Sucks is a bar-crawl through former, current, and wannabe socialist countries around the world. Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism—while drinking a lot of beer.

Remains of Socialism
Remains of Socialism

Author: Maya Nadkarni

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1501750194

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In Remains of Socialism, Maya Nadkarni investigates the changing fates of the socialist past in postsocialist Hungary. She introduces the concept of "remains"—both physical objects and cultural remainders—to analyze all that Hungarians sought to leave behind after the end of state socialism. Spanning more than two decades of postsocialist transformation, Remains of Socialism follows Hungary from the optimism of the early years of transition to its recent right-wing turn toward illiberal democracy. Nadkarni analyzes remains that range from exiled statues of Lenin to the socialist-era "Bambi" soda, and from discredited official histories to the scandalous secrets of the communist regime's informers. She deftly demonstrates that these remains were far more than simply the leftovers of an unwanted past. Ultimately, the struggles to define remains of socialism and settle their fates would represent attempts to determine the future—and to mourn futures that never materialized.

Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies

Author: Kristian Niemietz

Publisher: London Publishing Partnership

Published: 2019-02-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0255367716

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Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.

A Future for Socialism
A Future for Socialism

Author: John E. Roemer

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780674339460

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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.

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?

Author: Katherine Verdery

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1996-02-16

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1400821991

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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.

Imagining Socialism
Imagining Socialism

Author: Mark A. Allison

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0192896490

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Socialism names a form of collective life that has never been fully realized; consequently, it is best understood as a goal to be imagined. So this study argues, and thereby uncovers an aesthetic impulse that animates some of the most consequential socialist writing, thought, and practice of the long nineteenth century. Imagining Socialism explores this tradition of radical activism, investigating the diverse ways that British socialists--from Robert Owen to the mid-century Christian Socialists to William Morris--marshalled the resources of the aesthetic in their efforts to surmount politics and develop non-governmental forms of collective life. Their ambitious attempts at social regeneration led some socialists to explore the liberatory possibilities afforded by cooperative labor, women's emancipation, political violence, and the power of the arts themselves. Imagining Socialism demonstrates that, far from being confined to the socialist revival of the fin de siècle, important socialist experiments with the emancipatory potential of the aesthetic in Britain may be found throughout the period it calls the socialist century--and may still inspire us today.

Renewing Socialism
Renewing Socialism

Author: Leo Panitch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1000309657

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Renewing Socialism opens with an exploration of the contemporary meaning of revolution and reform, beginning by stressing the appropriation of both terms into the rhetoric of the political right. Panitch examines the failure to realize socialisms revolutionary promise through an analysis of social democratic parties and the politics of compromise t