Socialist Alternative
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Video: Contracorriente: Discussion with Michael Lebowitz
Cuba — February 2010. View on YouTube website Interview by Aurelio Alonso. Michael Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Some of his recent books include Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class, Palgrave Macmillan (2003), Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st Century, Monthly Review Press (2006) Continue reading
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The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development
Prof. Michael Lebowitz discussing aspects of his book The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, at the Maritime Labour Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. Continue reading
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Book review by Konrad Read, "A New Vision of Socialist Transition and Development"
It is probably fair to say that revolutionary socialism does not come naturally to everyone. Some of the young and curious pick up a grimy, twenty-page manifesto in a second-hand bookstore and never look back, but for myself it was a long, gruelling process full of twists and hesitations. One of the last barriers to… Continue reading
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Book review by Konrad Read, “A New Vision of Socialist Transition and Development”
It is probably fair to say that revolutionary socialism does not come naturally to everyone. Some of the young and curious pick up a grimy, twenty-page manifesto in a second-hand bookstore and never look back, but for myself it was a long, gruelling process full of twists and hesitations. One of the last barriers to… Continue reading
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Douglas W. Greene, "Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Review of Michael Lebowitz's Socialist Alternative"
Only about ten or fifteen years ago, leftist theory was in a sorry state. It seemed as if socialism had ceased to be a viable project with the fall of the Soviet Union. Instead of an alternative to capitalism, theorists were singing the praises of the third way or the idea of changing the world… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 