A“razor-sharp“introductiontothispoliticalandeconomicideologymakesagalvanizingargumentformodernsocialism(NaomiKlein)--andexplainshowitscoretenetscouldeffectpositivechangeinAmericaandworldwide.InTheSocialistManifesto,BhaskarSunkaraexploressocialism’shistorysincethemid-1800sandpresentsarealisticvisionforitsfuture.WiththestunningpopularityofBernieSandersandAlexandriaOcasio-Cortez,Americansareembracingtheclasspoliticsofsocialism.Butwhat,exactly,issocialism?AndwhatwouldasocialistsysteminAmericalooklike?TheeditorofJacobinmagazine,Sunkarashowsthatsocialism,thoughoftenseenprimarilyasaneconomicsystem,infactoffersthemeanstofightallformsofoppression,includingracismandsexism.TheultimategoalisnotSoviet-styleplanning,buttowinrightstohealthcare,education,andhousing,andtocreatenewdemocraticinstitutionsinworkplacesandcommunities.Aprimeronsocialismforthe21stcentury,thisisabookforanyoneseekinganendtothevastinequitiesofourage.
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