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Author | : William Edmundson |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2021-06-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1509541845 |
The idea of socialism is making a comeback, particularly among rising generations. Their interest is likely to prove transitory, however, if socialism ignores their yearning for individual autonomy. Why should “soloists” embrace socialism? In this highly original new book, William Edmundson argues that there are compelling reasons for even the most resolute of individualists to embrace socialism. Political equality is incompatible with private ownership of the means of production – which today incorporates not only the highway system, the currency, and the power grid but also platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Google. Socialism is therefore essential to protect the basic liberal rights and freedoms that underpin our social contract. This pathbreaking defence of liberal democratic socialism will be essential reading not only for all on the left, but also for students and scholars of liberalism, libertarianism, and the social contract.
Author | : Harvey P. Moyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Socialism |
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Author | : Ira Brown Cross |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Socialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew McManus |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2024-11-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1040252109 |
McManus presents a comprehensive guide to the liberal socialist tradition, stretching from Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine through John Stuart Mill to Irving Howe, John Rawls, and Charles Mills. Providing a comprehensive critical genealogy of liberal socialism from a sympathetic but critical standpoint, McManus traces its core to the Revolutionary period that catalyzed major divisions in liberal political theory to the French Revolution that saw the emergence of writers like Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine who argued that liberal principles could only be inadequately instantiated in a society with high levels of material and social inequality to John Stuart Mill, the first major thinker who declared himself a liberal and a socialist and who made major contributions to both traditions through his efforts to synthesize and conciliate them. McManus argues for liberal socialism as a political theory which could truly secure equality and liberty for all. An essential book on the tradition of liberal socialism for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and humanities.
Author | : James Ramsay MacDonald |
Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781230251295 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII WHAT SOCIALISM IS NOT An examination of some of the objections urged against, and the fears entertained regarding, Socialism will enable me to explain its principles and elucidate its methods and point of view still more clearly. 1. Anarchism and Communism First of all I shall deal with the relation of Socialism as a system of political and economic thought to other systems with which it is often confused--particularly with Communism and Anarchism. f Communism presupposes a common store of wealth which is to be drawn upon by the individual consumer, not in accordance with services rendered, but in response to "a human right to sustenance." It may be in accordance with Communist principles to make this right to consume depend upon the duty of helping to produce, and to exile from the economic community every one who declines to fulfil that duty. Some communists insist that one of the certain results of their system will be the creation of so much moral robustness that in practice this question will never arise for actual answer. But be that as it may, the distributive philosophy of Communism is as I have stated, and it contains, the difference between that system and Socialism. "From all according to their ability; to each according to his needs" is a Communist, not a Socialist, formula. The Socialist, wpnld insert "services" for "needs." They both agree about the common stock; they disagree regarding the nature of what should be the effective claim of the individual to share in it. Socialists think of distribution through the channels of personal income; Communists think of distribution through the channels of human rights to live. Hence Socialism is pounds sterling or labour notes; Communism i requires no_ such medium uf...
Author | : Morris Hillquit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Socialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Keith Dixon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 2010-01-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1135155941 |
Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.
Author | : William Dwight Porter Bliss |
Publisher | : London, S. Sonnenschein & Company: New York, C. Scribner's sons |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Socialism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert Edward Dell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Communism |
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Author | : Bernard Shaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : Socialism |
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