Socialism: Past and Future - Hardcover

Harrington, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1559700009 ISBN 13: 9781559700009

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1989

Synopsis

Argues that socialist renewal is the only viable means of achieving progress and freedom in the twenty-first century and illustrates the imperative for placing human values before doctrinaire political or solely monetary motivation

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About the Author:

Michael Harrington was an American democratic socialist, bestselling writer, political activist, professor of political science, NPR commentator, atheist, and founder of the Democratic Socialists of America. He is also credited with coining the term “neoconservatism” in the 1970s. A major figure of the American left, Harrington is the author of eighteen books including The Other America: Poverty in the United States, The Social-Industrial Complex, The Twilight of Capitalism, and his autobiography The Long Distance Runner. He passed away in 1989.

From Publishers Weekly:

By "democratic socialism," Harrington means something vastly different from the Soviet or Chinese systems, which he regards as "bureaucratic collectivisms." Calling socialism the major hope for human freedom and justice in the 21st century, the author of The Other America and The New American Poverty demands meaningful worker-involvement in decision-making, reorganization of markets away from pure profiteering, decentralization and a move toward an egalitarian global economy. Today's "free market" economies, he argues, are controlled by socially authoritarian, militarist, debt-financed regimes like those of Reagan and Thatcher. Harrington is a nondogmatic thinker, and this succinct, readable synthesis of the various strands of his thought conveys a sense of urgency deepened by his struggle with inoperable cancer. His blueprint for a "visionary gradualism" deserves a reading.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 1559700009
• ISBN 13: 9781559700009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1