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;

• ISBN13: 9780739107508
• ISBN10: 073910750X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-20
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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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