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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Imagine: Living in a Socialist U.S.A. [Kindle Edition]

Author: Frances Goldin | Language: English | ISBN: B00DQ859KE | Format: PDF, EPUB

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The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the top one percent own as much as the bottom eighty. Government police-state spying on its citizens is pervasive. Consequently, as former President Jimmy Carter has said, "we have no functioning democracy."

Imagine: Living In a Socialist U.S.A., edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith, is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri de coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. This anthology features essays by revolutionary thinkers, activists, and artists—including Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, civil rights activist Angela Davis, incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, and economist Rick Wolff— addressing various aspects of a new society and, crucially, how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.

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  • File Size: 524 KB
  • Print Length: 323 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062305573
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial (January 21, 2014)
  • Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B00DQ859KE
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A breath of fresh air. Just when I thought that writing about socialism had become the exclusive preserve of Marxist academics and their obscurantist jargon, we finally have a work that uses plain language to bring its ideas back to life. Of course, any edited collection of this kind has its strengths and weaknesses, its highs and its lows.

As for its strengths: (1) A multiplicity of perspectives from just left of social democracy to Marxism-Leninism to what I would call utopian; (2) Coverage of a wide variety of relevant policy issues; (3) Avoidance of abstract theoretical elaborations in favor of dealing with practicalities; (4) A willingness to “imagine” without leaving the real world behind; (5) Great readability.

Major weakness: The book as a whole fails to seriously explore the state of American political consciousness in the 21st century. This too often leads to utopian assumptions about the behavioral effects of changes in the social structure, and an attempt to compensate for that omission by romanticizing the defunct Occupy movement. The question of how we get from here to there thus remains largely unanswered.

The highlights: Rick Wolff’s economic analysis; Mumia Abu-Jamal/Angela Davis discussion of justice; Blanche Wiesen-Cook’s feminism; Steven Wishnia on drug issues; William Ayers’ wonderful essay on education; Dianne Feeley’s thoughtful focus on Detroit’s problems and their solution; Renate Bridenthal’s “workday”; Paul LeBlanc’s historical perspective on revolutionary politics; Martin Espada’s poem; and Terry Bisson’s wonderfully honest portrayal of a socialist future in “Thanksgiving 2077”.

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