Socialist Optimism: An Alternative Political Economy for the Twenty-First Century
Socialist Optimism: An Alternative Political Economy for the Twenty-First Century by Paul Auerbach
2016 | ISBN: 1137563958, 113756394X | English | 522 pages | PDF | 3 MB
2016 | ISBN: 1137563958, 113756394X | English | 522 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a positive vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the critique of present-day developments.
The detailed blueprint presented here focuses upon the education and upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household security. It yields a well-defined path to human development and liberation, as well as democratic control of working life and public affairs. Socialism as human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a pervasive capitalist reality.