Toward a New Socialism: : Matt Bakker: Lexington Books

Toward a New Socialism

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Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. This book demonstrates that capitalism is destructive and limiting to the many ongoing campaigns to increase freedom, equality, and security. 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. The essays offer a new definition of socialism by investigating the theories and principles of socialism, its influence on social institutions, and its role in work dynamics. Raising important and unavoidable questions for contemporary society, Toward a New Socialism is a vital resource for scholars of political theory and the globalization movement, as well as a necessary read for every citizen under capitalism.

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a New Socialism
Part 2 Part One: Principles
Chapter 3 Socialist Voices
Chapter 4 Socialist Freedom
Chapter 5 Equality
Chapter 6 Socialist-Feminism: A Cooperative Vision and the Right to Care
Chapter 7 Social Feelings and the Morality of Socialism
Chapter 8 Can We Get There From Here?: Reflections about Fundamental Social and Human Change
Chapter 9 Their Rationality and Ours
Chapter 10 Social Hope and Prophetic Intellectuals in a "Hopeless World"
Part 11 Part Two: Specific Institutions in a Socialist Society
Chapter 12 Socializing Care: Reinventing Family Life
Chapter 13 Schooling in a Socialist Society
Chapter 14 Between Repression and Liberation: Sexuality and Socialist Theory
Chapter 15 The Religion of Liberation: Theology of Liberation and Socialism
Chapter 16 The Right of Association: The Shameful History of a Right Fundamental to Democracy
Chapter 17 Democracy
Chapter 18 The Role of Prisons in a Socialist Future or: The Incorrigible Ethos of Incarceration
Chapter 19 Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview
Chapter 20 Social Justice as an Environmental Issue
Chapter 21 Capitalism, Sustainability, and Climate Change
Chapter 22 Marxism and War
Part 23 Part Three: Promising Social Movements and Their Projects
Chapter 24 Worker Controlled Workplaces
Chapter 25 Challenging the "Market as God" Ideology: Living Wage Campaigns and the Fight for Socialism
Chapter 26 A Politics and a Sensibility: The Anarchist Current on the U.S. Left
Chapter 27 Multiculturalism as Solidarity: Globalizing Resistance
Chapter 28 The New Solidarity: A Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization
Chapter 29 The Zapatistas: Lessons for the U.S. Left
Chapter 30 Dear Sup. Much Obliged: An Afterword
Chapter 31 An Afterword to the Afterword: The Zapatista Movement a Decade Later

Product details

Published	Feb 01 2007
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	530
ISBN	9780739118627
Imprint	Lexington Books
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Anatole Anton

Anthology Editor

Richard Schmitt

Contributor

Matt Bakker

Contributor

Frank Bardacke

Contributor

Johanna Brenner

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Harry Brighouse

Contributor

Chris Dixon

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Barbara Epstein

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Fred Evans

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Ann Ferguson

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Milton Fisk

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Michael Hames-Garcia

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Nancy Holmstrom

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Michael W. Howard

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Serenella Iovino

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Stephanie Luce

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Barbara McCloskey

Contributor

Eduardo Mendieta

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Charles W. Mills

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Mechthild Nagel

Contributor

Kathy Russell

Contributor

Cheyney Ryan

Contributor

Richard Schmitt

Contributor

David Schweickart

Contributor

Richard Smith

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Jim Syfers

Contributor

Maurizio Valsania

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Victor Wallis

Intelligent and well-written essays filled with radical visions and sensible, humane policy proposals. This book will be extremely valuable for readers who think we can do better than the present system-and even more important for those who think we can't.

Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's Future
Recommended.

H.G. Reid, University of Kentucky, Choice Reviews
...the essays are first class- well written, well argued, and highly engaging....I would certainly recommend the book...

2008, Political Studies Review
inspiring and hopeful.... It is an important contribution to socialist thought...

Against the Current
I know of no other work remotely comparable to this anthology. The collection should make a major contribution to public debates regarding the feasibility and desirability of a more democratic alternative to global capitalism. The comprehensiveness of the issues considered also sets it apart. And the authors collected here form a veritable 'who's who' of leading socialist philosophers working in the U.S. today. Without question this is the single best collection of writings by contemporary U.S. socialist philosophers available.

Tony Smith, Iowa State University