Socialism . . . Seriously

A Brief Guide to Human Liberation

165 pages

English language

Published Dec. 26, 2015 by Haymarket Books.

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978-1-60846-515-6
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OCLC Number:
921450083

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Opinion polls show that many people in the U.S. prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's not exactly going to inspire millions to storm the barricades.

Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an entertaining and insightful introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics and the potential of human beings to be something more than being bomb-dropping, planet-destroying racist fools.

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A good casual intro

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Written in a very casual, approachable style and full of good humor, I found this book to be a good intro to Socialism. I’d read many books on theory which were fairly deep and insightful and covered more ground, but this one would probably have been a good choice to read first to give me a good base of knowledge before delving deeper. The author does a good job of giving us a history lesson, defining what the term means and pointing us to a way forward. I can definitely recommend it.

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