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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Lebowitz, Michael A.
Titre(s) : The socialist imperative [Texte électronique] : from Gotha to now / by Michael A. Lebowitz
Publication : New York : Monthly Review Press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée (264 pages)
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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, 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." -- Publisher's
description
Sujet(s) : Socialisme -- Histoire
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.530 9 (23e éd.) = Collectivisme et fascisme (idéologie politique) - Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781583675465 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1583675469 (pbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781583675472 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN 1583675477 (cloth) (alk. paper). - ISBN
9781583675496 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb444898400
Notice n° :
FRBNF44489840
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