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The Future within the Present: Seven Theses for a Robust Twenty-First-Century Socialism

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  • David Laibman

    (PhD Program in Economics, CUNY Graduate School, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016, dlaibman@scienceandsociety.com)

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To meet today’s challenges, including successful mobilization around people’s most immediate needs, a rigorous and inspiring vision of a new society—socialism—is 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.

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  • David Laibman, 2006. "The Future within the Present: Seven Theses for a Robust Twenty-First-Century Socialism," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 38(3), pages 305-318, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:38:y:2006:i:3:p:305-318
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