Saturday, July 08, 2023

How Would Socialism Work?

On Another Topic, with an Appearance by Rutger Bregman.

This post does not answer the question, but merely provides a bibliography. I have not read everything below. I suppose this is something of a hodge podge. I include a book from Peter Kropotkin, even though it is much older than the remaining non-fiction works, since I am currently one third, maybe, through it.

  • Novels (Ken Macleod, in The Cassini Division has a more complete list as chapter titles.)
    • Edward Bellamy. 1888. Looking Backward.
    • Ursula K. Leguin. 1974 The Dispossessed.
    • William Morris. 1890. News from Nowhere.
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 1915. Herland. Apparently this is one of a genre of feminist utopias.
    • Francis Spufford. 2010. Red Plenty.
  • Analyses and detailed proposals.
    • Michael Albert. 2003. Parecon: Life After Capitalism.
    • Rutger Bregman. 2017. Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income.
    • Gerald Cohen. 2009. Why Not Socialism?
    • Theodore Burczak. 2006. Socialism after Hayek.
    • Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism.
    • David Ellerman. 2021. Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy.
    • Geoffrey Hodgson. 2019. Is Socialism Feasible? Torwards an Alternative Future.
    • Bruno Jossa. 2020. Managing the Cooperative Enterprise: The Rise of Worker-Controlled Firms.
    • Janos Kornai. 1992. The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism.
    • Peter Kropotkin. 1892. The Conquest of Bread.
    • Guinevere Liberty Nell. 2010. Rediscovering Fire: Basic Economic Lessons from the Soviet Experiment to Eliminate the Market.
    • Alex Nove. 1983. The Economics of Feasible Socialism.
    • David Schweickart. 2002. After Capitalism.
    • Joseph Stiglitz. 1996. Whither Socialism.
    • Philippe Van Parijs. 2019. Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy.

There is no scarcity of informed ideas on how a better society might function.

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