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Overview""Is socialism an impossible, discredited dream or the only realistic path for human survival? If you're not sure of the answer, or are just curious about what the Left really believes in, you need to read Maass. He's the Tom Paine of the contemporary American left.""-Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums Global capitalism is in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment is growing. America's imperial wars rage on. In this brilliant polemic, translated to Spanish, Alan Maass argues that the alternative is a democratically planned economy based on workers' control. Alan Maass is the editor of socialistworker.org, a daily website of left news and opinion, and the Socialist Worker newspaper. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan MaassPublisher: Haymarket Books Imprint: Haymarket Books Edition: Spanish-Language Edition Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 17.80cm Weight: 0.169kg ISBN: 9781608461943ISBN 10: 1608461947 Pages: 162 Publication Date: 29 April 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: Spanish Table of ContentsContents 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 ReadingReviewsAuthor InformationAlan 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."" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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