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The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Michael A. Lebowitz
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Description for The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
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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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781583675465
SKU
V9781583675465
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About Michael A. Lebowitz
Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver,Canada, and the author of The Contradictions of Real Socialism, The Socialist Alternative, Beyond Capital, Build It Now, and Following Marx. He was Director, Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development, Centro Internacional Miranda, in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2006-11
Reviews for The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
Praise for The Contradictions of Real Socialism : The profound understanding in this new book of why twentieth-century attempts at constructing socialism failed must be an essential element in the socialist renewal emerging amid the first great capitalist crisis of the twenty-first century. - Leo Panitch, editor, the Socialist Register