A good society, Michael Lebowitz tells us, is one that permits the full development of human potential. In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, he argues persuasively that such a society is possible. That capitalism fails his definition of a good society is evident from even a cursory examination of its main features. What comes first in capitalism is not human development but privately accumulated profits by a tiny minority of the population. When there is a conflict between profits and human development, profits take precedence. Just ask the unemployed, those toiling at dead-end jobs,...
A good society, Michael Lebowitz tells us, is one that permits the full development of human potential. In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, ...
In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Beyond Capital(winner of the Deutscher Prize), Build It Now, The Socialist Alternative, and The Contradictions of Real Socialism. Here, he develops and deepens the analysis contained in those pathbreaking works by tracing major issues in socialist thought from the nineteenth century through the twenty-first.
Lebowitz explores the obvious but almost universally ignored fact that as human beings work together to...
In a little more than a decade, economist Michael A. Lebowitz has written several major works about the transition from socialism to capitalism: Be...
