IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/23022_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Heuristics: socialism - from science to Utopia

In: Rethinking Socialism

Author

Listed:
  • .

Abstract

Current debates on socialism are Chapter 3’s starting point. These range from the ideas of feminists such as Maggie Abraham, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser to eco-socialist voices from the global South such as Michelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar, to state theorists such as Bob Jessop and sociological Marxists such as Michael Burawoy and Erik Olin Wright. The economist Thomas Piketty and the digitalisation critic Evgeny Morozov have added to the debate. Each of these authors share the book’s concern. Socialism in the 21st century is above all a search for ways out of an economic-ecological pincer crisis that threatens the survival of human civilisation. This search can only succeed if socialism once again becomes a “real utopia”. Socialism is here presented as a real possibility, not some preordained goal of history. Socialist agency requires a multitude of strategies that can overcome the capitalist system only by working in combination.

Suggested Citation

  • ., 2024. "Heuristics: socialism - from science to Utopia," Chapters, in: Rethinking Socialism, chapter 3, pages 27-37, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:23022_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781035326389.00007
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:23022_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.