TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lebowitz,Michael A.
TI  - The socialist imperative: from Gotha to now 
SN  - 9781583675496
AV  - HX73 .S635 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Monthly Review Press
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Contents; Foreword; Building Socialism: Ideas and Experiences; 1. The Capitalist Nightmare and the Socialist Dream; 2. Understanding the Critique of the Gotha Programme; 3. Transcending the Crisis of Socialist Economy; 4. Contested Reproduction and the Contradictions of Socialism; 5. Proposing a Path to Socialism: Two Papers for Hugo Chávez; 6. Socialism: The Goal, the Paths, and the Compass; Struggling to Build Socialism Now; 7. What Makes the Working Class a Revolutionary Subject?; 8. Three Perspectives on Democracy; 9. The Concept of "Fairness": Possibilities, Limits, Possibilities; 10. The State and the Future of Socialism11. End the System; Bibliography; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - 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
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