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Socialist Economic Systems - 21st Century Pathways (Hardcover)
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Socialist Economic Systems - 21st Century Pathways (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
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Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist
China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many
to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist
futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of
socialism's promises and performance 1820-2022, identifies a
feasible path forward and provides a rigorous analytic framework
for the comparison of economic systems. The book opens by surveying
pre-industrial utopias from Plato to Thomas More, and libertarian
communal designs for superior living. It plumbs all aspects of the
revolutionary and democratic socialist political movements that
emerged after 1870 and considers the comparative economic,
political and social performance of the USSR and others from the
Bolshevik Revolution onwards. The book also provides case studies
for all revolutionary Marxist-Leninist regimes, and supplementary
discussions of Mondragon cooperatives, Israeli kibbutzim, Nordic
corporatism, and European democratic socialism. It investigates the
theoretical and practical complexities of command-planning, reform
communism, market communism, worker economic management and
egalitarianism. It examines communism as an engine of economic
growth, and a mechanism for improving people's quality of
existence, including living standards, labor self-governance,
egalitarianism, social justice, and prevention of crimes against
humanity before addressing the perennial question of what needs to
be done next. A suggested path forward is elaborated drawing
lessons from the warts-and-all historical performance of socialist
economies 1917-2022 and failed socialist prophesy. The evidence
indicates that the key to 21st century socialism success lies in
empowering workers of all descriptions to govern democratically for
their mutual protection and welfare without the extraneous
imposition of priorities imposed by other movements. The book is
essential reading for anyone interested in Socialism, political
economy, comparative economic systems and political and social
history.
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