Intro to SocialismMonthly Review Press, 1968 - 127 pages This introduction to socialist thought is by two men perhaps better qualified than any other Americans to have written it. Leo Huberman and Paul Sweezy, founding editors and publishers of the independent socialist magazine Monthly Review, built an impressive reputation as keen observers, acute analysts, and lucid writers on the world and domestic scenes. In this book, they present in clear and direct language the basic elements of the socialist critique of capitalist society. |
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... classes exist , the state cannot be above class - it must be on the side of the rulers . That the state is a weapon of the ruling class was plain to Adam Smith as long ago as 1776. In his famous book , The Wealth of Nations , Smith ...
... classes exist , the state cannot be above class - it must be on the side of the rulers . That the state is a weapon of the ruling class was plain to Adam Smith as long ago as 1776. In his famous book , The Wealth of Nations , Smith ...
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... class is so great that concessions must be made , or " law and order " will be endangered , or worse still ( from the point of view of the ruling class ) revolution may ensue . But the important point to remember is that whatever ...
... class is so great that concessions must be made , or " law and order " will be endangered , or worse still ( from the point of view of the ruling class ) revolution may ensue . But the important point to remember is that whatever ...
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... class that is in power wants to retain its power- and comes into conflict with the class that is in harmony with the ... ruling class . It is set up and main- tained to preserve the existing system . Its role in capitalist society is ...
... class that is in power wants to retain its power- and comes into conflict with the class that is in harmony with the ... ruling class . It is set up and main- tained to preserve the existing system . Its role in capitalist society is ...
Table des matières
PREFACE | 5 |
THE ABC OF SOCIALISM | 21 |
MARXIAN SOCIALISM | 31 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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achieve American Andre Gunder Frank automobile basic believe capitalist class capitalist countries capitalist society capitalist system cent centralized planning cold war Communist Communist Manifesto competition consumer corporations course democracy depression dictatorship dollars economic system employer Engels exist exploitation fact factory forces freedom Friedrich Engels Gosplan happen human incentive individual industry inefficient and wasteful inequality interest J. P. Morgan Karl Marx labor power laws LEO HUBERMAN liberty living standards Marxists material means of production ment million monopoly nature nomic October Revolution organization owners percent period planned economy political possible private enterprise private ownership private property problem profits public ownership question result revolution rich ruling class Russian socialist society solve Soviet Union struggle surplus SWEEZY things tion true unemployment United Utopians wages workers