The End of Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Socialism write by James Otteson. This book was released on 2014-10-06. The End of Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The End of Socialism explores the difficulties socialism faces and examines the extent to which its moral ideals can guide policy.
Information Technology and Socialist Construction
Information Technology and Socialist Construction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Information Technology and Socialist Construction write by Daniel E. Saros. This book was released on 2014-05-09. Information Technology and Socialist Construction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This book explains how modern information technology may be used to implement a new method of economic calculation that could bring an end to capitalism and make socialism possible. In this book, the author critically examines a number of socialist proposals that have been put forward since the end of the Cold War. It is shown that although these proposals have many merits, their inability effectively to incorporate the benefits of information technology into their models has limited their ability to solve the problem of socialist construction. The final section of the book proposes an entirely new model of socialist development, based on a "needs profile" that makes it possible to convert the needs of large numbers of people into data that can be used as a guide for resource allocation. This analysis makes it possible to rethink and carefully specify the conditions necessary for the abolition of capital and consequently the requirements for socialist revolution and, ultimately, communist society. Information Technology and Socialist Construction will be of interest to students and scholars of political economy, the history of economic thought, labour economics and industrial economics.
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven on Earth write by Joshua Muravchik. This book was released on 2003. Heaven on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
The End of Socialism
The End of Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Socialism write by James Otteson. This book was released on 2014-09-29. The End of Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is socialism morally superior to other systems of political economy, even if it faces practical difficulties? In The End of Socialism, James R. Otteson explores socialism as a system of political economy - that is, from the perspectives of both moral philosophy and economic theory. He examines the exact nature of the practical difficulties socialism faces, which turn out to be greater than one might initially suppose, and then asks whether the moral ideals it champions - equality, fairness, and community - are important enough to warrant attempts to overcome these difficulties nonetheless, especially in light of the alleged moral failings of capitalism. The result is an examination of the 'end of socialism', both in the sense of the moral goals it proposes and in the results of its unfolding logic.
The End of Parliamentary Socialism
The End of Parliamentary Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Parliamentary Socialism write by Leo Panitch. This book was released on 2001-05-17. The End of Parliamentary Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Argues against the assertion that there is no alternative to neo-liberalism.
