The Blueprint
How Socialism Can Work in the Real World
$33.15
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2027
Summary
Socialism, the pundits insist, is at best a noble delusion. Good in theory — maybe — but proven disastrous by over a century of experimentation. The Blueprint will present a vision for socialist politics in the twenty-first century, offering not only a critique of contemporary capitalism but a description of a viable economic model that features both expansive social welfare guarantees, worker-managed firms, and the innovation that comes from market competition. Based on the real experiences of social democracy and the cooperative movement, we can envision a better world, and outline concrete steps to get there.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839768637 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839768630 |
| Author: | Bhaskar Sunkara, Ben Burgis, Mike Beggs |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2027 |
| Weight: | 478g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
The Blueprint takes the question of how socialism might actually work seriously enough to venture an answer. The argument is rigorous but not airless and is honest about the tradeoffs involved. A genuinely useful book for how to exit the current labyrinth. – GREG GRANDIN, author of America, América
It is rare indeed to find a book that so keenly matches the elegance of its arguments with the passion of its politics. Here we have an alternative economic blueprint for our time, a shining antidote to the crude bestiality of a fading and failing Trumpian regime. – DAVID HARVEY, author of The Story of Capital
Nothing is more urgently needed in our troubled world than a blueprint for socializing capital, democratizing workplaces, restoring the commons, decommodifying basic goods and harnessing markets to society’s needs. This book has arrived with perfect timing. – YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of Technofeudalism
What would it mean to actually live under democratic socialism? This visionary book takes this critical and too-often-ignored question seriously. The result is thought-provoking, informative, and surprisingly entertaining. – ASTRA TAYLOR, author of The Age of Insecurity
I think The Blueprint is an excellent book that-given its pedigree and waxing support for socialist politicians in America and elsewhere-ought to shape the conversation going forward. It should be the final nail in the coffin of the cliché that 21st-century socialists are just repackaging 19th-century ideas. If nothing else, The Blueprint is proof positive of the intellectual energy on today’s left. It’s brimming with imagination tempered by realism, and vision partnered with practicality. In other words: it’s just the kind of book we need right now. – Matthew McManus * Liberal Currents *
Bhaskar Sunkara
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine, founder and editorial director of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Sunkara is a Guardian US columnist who has published more than two hundred articles and essays about politics in outlets like the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and Le Monde.
Mike Beggs is senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomic and monetary thinking and policy.
Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. He’s the author of several books, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters.
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