Feasible Socialism

Marxism has always rejected visionary blueprints of ideal socialist societies of the future, pejoratively deeming such endeavors utopian. Insisting that the problem must be posed instead in terms of the potentialities of the here and now, Marxism has thus been able to lay claim to a certain realism. This is all very well, but too often the status of being an immanent critique has come to serve as an excuse not to bother in the least with the vast question of how on earth a reasonable and democratic socialist system might look in practice. Given the ever-deepening fragmentation and increasing complexity of the present, how in fact is one to organise a well-functioning socialism? Unless this problem is considered more seriously, the clamour for a workable political strategy will remain nothing but clamour; for these are two aspects of the same task. The following, then, is an attempt to put the matter on the agenda in concrete form

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  Peter Fitting•Women s Studies•1987

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