Socialism : past and future
Record details
- ISBN: 9781611453355
- ISBN: 1611453356
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Physical Description:
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320 pages ; 23 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Arcade, ©1989, 2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-300) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Hypotheses -- Socialisms -- Authoritarian collectivisms -- The Realpolitik of utopia -- The end of socialism? -- The third creation of the world -- Socialization revisited -- Market and plan -- Visionary gradualism. |
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Subject: | Socialism Forecasting Socialism History Twentieth century Forecasts |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HX 44 .H37 2011 | 30775305507742 | General Collection | Available | - |
Socialism : Past and Future
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Socialism : Past and Future
This is the definitive text on the role of socialism throughout history which Publishers Weekly calls "succinct, readable" and the New York Times says "has a lively air of optimism and boldly challenges traditional ideas." On learning his cancer was inoperable, renowned intellectual Michael Harrington simply asked the doctors to keep him alive long enough "to complete a summary statement of the themes I had thought of throughout an activist life." And they did. Socialism: Past and Future is prominent thinker Michael Harrington's final contribution: a thoughtful, intelligent, and compassionate treatise on the role of socialism both past and present in modern society. He is convincing in his application of classic socialist theory to current economic situations and modern political systems, and he examines the validity of the idea of "visionary gradualism" in bringing about a socialist agenda. He believes that if freedom and justice are to survive into the next century, the socialist movement will be a critical factor. Harrington draws on a lifetime of thinking and politicking to reject much that has passed for socialism and to define the new forms that will make it the only "hope for human freedom and justice" ( Foreign Affairs ) in the twenty-first century.