Toward a New Socialism
by Anton, Anatole; Schmitt, Richard; Bakker, Matt; Bardacke, Frank; Brenner, Johanna; Brighouse, Harry; Dixon, Chris; Epstein, Barbara; Evans, Fred; Ferguson, Ann; Fisk, Milton; Hames-Garcia, Michael; Holmstrom, Nancy; Howard, Michael W.; Iovino, Serenella;Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-20
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary
Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle.
Table of Contents
| Introduction : toward a new socialism | p. 1 |
| Principles | p. 19 |
| Socialist voices | p. 21 |
| Socialist freedom | p. 53 |
| Equality | p. 75 |
| Socialist-feminism : a cooperative vision and the right to care | p. 99 |
| Social feelings and the morality of socialism | p. 117 |
| Can we get there from here? : reflections about fundamental social and human change | p. 145 |
| Their rationality and ours | p. 161 |
| Social hope and prophetic intellectuals in a "hopeless world" | p. 183 |
| Specific institutions in a socialist society | p. 209 |
| Socializing care : reinventing family life | p. 211 |
| Schooling in a socialist society | p. 231 |
| Between repression and liberation : sexuality and socialist theory | p. 247 |
| The religion of liberation : theology of liberation and socialism | p. 267 |
| The right of association : the shameful history of a right fundamental to democracy | p. 283 |
| Democracy | p. 311 |
| The role of prisons in a socialist future, or : the incorrigible ethos of incarceration | p. 325 |
| Socialism and technology : a sectoral overview | p. 347 |
| Social justice as an environmental issue | p. 365 |
| Capitalism, sustainability and climate change | p. 387 |
| Marxism and war | p. 401 |
| Promising social movements and their projects | p. 415 |
| Worker controlled workplaces | p. 417 |
| Challenging the "market as God" ideology : living wage campaigns and the fight for socialism | p. 429 |
| A politics and a sensibility : the anarchist current on the U.S. left | p. 445 |
| Multiculturalism as solidarity : globalizing resistance | p. 463 |
| The new solidarity : a case study of cross-border labor networks and mural art in the age of globalization | p. 483 |
| The Zapatistas : lessons for the U.S. left | p. 497 |
| Dear sup. much obliged : an afterword | p. 497 |
| An afterword to the afterword : the Zapatista movement a decade later | p. 508 |
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