The Future within the Present: Seven Theses for a Robust Twenty-First-Century Socialism

David Laibman
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David Laibman: PhD Program in Economics, CUNY Graduate School, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, dlaibman@scienceandsociety.com

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2006, vol. 38, issue 3, 305-318

Abstract: To meet today’s challenges, including successful mobilization around people’s most immediate needs, a rigorous and inspiring vision of a new society—socialism—is more necessary than ever. Without creating rigid or utopian schemes, we can affirm and develop some of the most essential elements in that vision: progressive transcendence of the alienating and polarizing content of spontaneous markets; democratic coordination and planning, at all levels from central to decentral; and creative engagement with the vast potentials of modern information technology. This project must also recover and embrace all of the lessons, both positive and negative, of the twentieth-century postcapitalist experience, especially that of the USSR.

Keywords: socialism; democratic planning; economic democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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