今日のための社会主義：資本主義の酷薄さを脱するために Socialism for Today : Escaping the Cruelties of Capitalism

Kotz, David M.

Polity Press（2025/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 208 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781509561469
• DDC分類 320.531

Full Description

Capitalism is failing us. Instead of bringing a decent life for the majority, it generates an outrageous gap between the rich and the rest, unaffordable housing, a profit-driven healthcare system, skyrocketing educational debt, racial and gender inequality, and the threat of climate disaster. Economist David Kotz argues that it's time we built a new socialism for the unique challenges of the twenty-first century.

The problems of capitalism are too profound for reform, Kotz writes. Reform can help, but only temporarily, and not for all. Nor can we turn back to the socialist experiments of the twentieth century. But we can learn from those experiments, both their successes and failures, to build a democratic and participatory economic and political system. The result would be a sustainable future of economic justice, equality, material comfort, human development, and meaningful freedom. The journey towards a new socialism may be difficult. But Kotz combines a clear and rigorous account of how socialism can be made to work with a realistic strategy for how to get there. This is the book we need to help us escape the cruelties of our capitalist present.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction
2 Capitalism
3 Reform of Capitalism
4 Lessons from the Past for a Socialist Future
5 Socialism
6 From Capitalism to Socialism

Notes
References