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Something different-an alternative to capitalism-is desperately needed. But what should replace it?
List of contents
Contents
Introduction: The Case for Socialism
1 Why Capitalism Doesn’t Work
2 Land of the Not-So-Free
3 The Scourge of War
4 What Is the Socialist Alternative?
5 How Do We Change the System?
6 “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
7 Socialism, the Struggle, and You
Afterword by Howard Zinn:
Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism
Further Reading
About the author
Alan Maass is the longtime editor of Socialist Worker newspaper and the daily Web site SocialistWorker.org. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.
Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”
Summary
Something different—an alternative to capitalism—is desperately needed. But what should replace it?
Foreword
*Socialism, a long-vilified idea, has become more attractive as free-market capitalism spirals into greater crisis. This book lays out the genuine socialist alternative of democratic workers' control for a new generation of activists and critical thinkers.
*We intend to market this book very widely within progressive web and print media outlets.
*SocialistWorker.org received an average of over 93,000 daily hits over the past year. *
