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Socialist Visions

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What could a socialist America be like? This provocative collection of original essays initiates a dialogue on one of the most essential yet neglected questions facing the left.

Author(s): Stephen Rosskamm Shalom
Edition: paper
Publisher: South End Press
Year: 1983

Language: English
City: Boston

Introduction / Stephen Rosskamm Shalom --

Part I. Politics --
A socialist democracy for the United States / Herbert Gintis --
On the limits of a "productivist" vision of socialist politics / Isaac D. Balbus --
Form versus substance in socialist democracy / Paula Rothenberg --
Rejoinder / Herbert Gintis --

Part II. The built environment --
Capitalism, socialism and the built environment / Dolores Hayden --
Environmental pluralism and the socialist visions / Gwendolyn Wright --
Participatory socialism and the built environment / Robert Goodman --
A view from the Northeast / Martin Bierbaun --
Rejoinder / Dolores Hayden --

Part III. Race and nationalism --
The third reconstruction : Black nationalism and race relations after the revolution / Manning Marable --
Sex and class in Marable's Third reconstruction / Tiffany Patterson --
Nationalism and pessimism / William K. Tabb --
Response and self-critique / Manning Marable --

Part IV. The division of labor --
Looking forward : Letters from Luke, Jane & Runya twenty years after the revolution begins / Joan Greenbaum and Laird Cummings --
Socialism is what you make it : A response to "Lookingforward" / Jeremy Brecher --
On-going rank and file control : The one effective weapon against bureaucrats in any society / Stan Weir --
Rejoinder / Joan Greenbaun and Laird Cummings --

Part V. Family and sex roles --
The family : What holds us, what hurts us : The family in socialist America / Lois Rita Helmbold and Amber Hollibaugh --
Lust at last / Ellen Herman --
Black family structures : Foundations for the future / Gloria I. Joseph --
Rejoinder / Lois Rita Helmbold --
What holds us and what hurts us : A last word / Amber Hollibaugh --

Part VI. The economy --
Participatory planning / Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel --
Socialism and the market / Michael Harrington --
The council model of decentralized planning : A critical analysis / Carmen J. Sirianni --
Rejoinder / Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel

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