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The Future within the Present: Seven Theses for a Robust Twenty-First-Century SocialismPhD Program in Economics, CUNY Graduate School, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, dlaibman{at}scienceandsociety.com To meet todays challenges, including successful mobilization around peoples most immediate needs, a rigorous and inspiring vision of a new societysocialismis more necessary than ever. Without creating rigid or utopian schemes, we can affirm and develop some of the most essential elements in that vision: progressive transcendence of the alienating and polarizing content of spontaneous markets; democratic coordination and planning, at all levels from central to decentral; and creative engagement with the vast potentials of modern information technology. This project must also recover and embrace all of the lessons, both positive and negative, of the twentieth-century postcapitalist experience, especially that of the USSR.
Key Words: socialism democratic planning economic democracy
Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 38, No. 3,
305-318 (2006) |
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