What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9197852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael A Lebowitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 26 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-068-05-2016-09_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2526087117 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Often the best way to begin to understand something is to consider what it is not. Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a society in which people sell their ability to work and are directed from above by others whose goal is profits rather than the satisfaction of human needs. It is not a society where the owners of the means of production benefit by dividing workers and communities in order to drive down wages and intensify work.... Nor is it a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards.... Also, socialism for the twenty-first century is not populism.... Further, socialism for the twenty-first century is not totalitarianism.... [S]ocialism for the twenty-first century does not dictate personal belief.... Nor does socialism for the twenty-first century worship technology and productive forces.... Finally, contrary to its self-proclaimed inventor (Heinz Dieterich), socialism for the twenty-first century is not "essentially a problem of informatic complexity" that requires cybernetic calculation of quantities of concrete labor as the basis for an exchange of equivalents.&hellp; So, let us explain what socialism for the twenty-first century is. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Capitalism · Economics · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Socialism · Sociology · State (computer science) · State socialism · Worship · Economic Development and Digital Transformation · Law · Mathematics · Political Economy and Marxism
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |