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The socialist manifesto: the case for radical politics in an era of extreme inequality

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Verso 2019 LondonDescription: vii, 276 p. Includes references and indexISBN:
  • 9781786636935
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.5310973 S8S6
Summary: From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today. Socialism was pronounced dead when the Soviet Union collapsed. But with the success of Jeremy Corbyn’s left-led Labour Party and increasing economic inequality, the politics of class struggle and wealth redistribution is back on the agenda. In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara offers a primer on socialism for the twenty-first century, outlining where it came from, what it is, and what a socialist political system might look like. Tracing the history of some of socialism’s highs and lows from the creation of Germany’s Social Democratic Party through bloody communist revolutions to the predicaments of midcentury social democracy Sunkara contends that, in our global age, socialism is still the only way forward. Drawing on history and his own experience in left-wing activism, Sunkara explains how socialists can win better wages and housing and create democratic institutions in workplaces and communities. In showing how and why socialism can work today, The Socialist Manifesto is for anyone seeking a real solution to the vast inequalities of our age. https://www.versobooks.com/books/2939-the-socialist-manifesto
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Table of contents

Preface
One. A Day In The Life Of A Socialist Citizen
PART I
Two. Gravediggers
Three. The Future We Lost
Four. The Few Who Won
Five. The God That Failed
Six. The Third World Revolution
Seven.Socialism And America
PART II
Eight. Return Of The Mack
Nine. How We Win
Ten. Stay Fly
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

From one of the most prominent voices on the American left, a galvanizing argument for why we need socialism today.
Socialism was pronounced dead when the Soviet Union collapsed. But with the success of Jeremy Corbyn’s left-led Labour Party and increasing economic inequality, the politics of class struggle and wealth redistribution is back on the agenda. In The Socialist Manifesto, Bhaskar Sunkara offers a primer on socialism for the twenty-first century, outlining where it came from, what it is, and what a socialist political system might look like.
Tracing the history of some of socialism’s highs and lows from the creation of Germany’s Social Democratic Party through bloody communist revolutions to the predicaments of midcentury social democracy Sunkara contends that, in our global age, socialism is still the only way forward. Drawing on history and his own experience in left-wing activism, Sunkara explains how socialists can win better wages and housing and create democratic institutions in workplaces and communities.
In showing how and why socialism can work today, The Socialist Manifesto is for anyone seeking a real solution to the vast inequalities of our age.

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2939-the-socialist-manifesto

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