Scott Sehon has produced a powerful and refreshingly clear introduction to the arguments for socialism. Getting beyond sloganeering, he offers an intellectually serious explanation and defense of the socialist project. Any critic of socialism needs to reckon with the compelling, tightly-reasoned case that Sehon provides. He takes the arguments of his opponents seriously, but then systematically dismantles them.
Scott Sehon is the Joseph E. Merrill Professor of Philosophy at Bowdoin College, where he has been teaching for over 30 years. He is the author of Free Will and Action Explanation: a Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Teleological Realism: Mind, Agency, and Explanation (MIT Press, 2005), and has appeared in such journals as American Philosophical Quarterly and Philosophical Issues. He has also written for Jacobin, Mises Institute: Power & Market Blog, and Aeon.