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Bringing together a wide range of approaches and new strands of economic and social thinking from across the US, Asia, Mexico, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, this book critically assesses the alternatives to capitalism, learning lessons from them and shows the ways forward with a con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Martell, Luke (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Socialism.
Pluralism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series Page
  • Alternative Societies: For a Pluralist Socialism
  • Copyright information
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Further reading
  • 1 Alternative Economies
  • Communism
  • Attempts at communism
  • Assessing communism
  • Co-operatives
  • Cooperation Jackson
  • Participatory economics
  • Critique of parecon
  • Leaders and participatory democracy: five cases
  • Participatory budgeting
  • Barcelona en Comú
  • Fatsa
  • Marinaleda
  • The Zapatistas and Chiapas
  • Less paid work
  • Slow society
  • Eco-localism, confederalism, and the Global South
  • Rojava
  • Alternatives to surveillance capitalism
  • A democratic public media
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • 2 Social Alternatives
  • Alternative education
  • Neill and Summerhill
  • Freire and dialogical education
  • Illich and deschooling
  • Intentional communities and communes
  • The Ranch
  • Food counterculture
  • Punk cuisine
  • Freeganism and counterculture
  • Alternative social centres
  • Alternatives to prison and punishment
  • Restorative justice and community internationally
  • Community policing
  • Politics and social democracy
  • Concrete utopias and decolonial alternatives
  • The practice of concrete utopias
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • 3 Utopianism and Its Critics
  • Utopias and change
  • Left utopias
  • Feminist and anti-racist utopias
  • Materialism, conflict, and change
  • Stepping aside, materialism, and change
  • Utopianism and capitalism
  • Materialism, utopianism, and Marxism
  • Totalitarianism, utopianism, and change
  • Pluralism and change in utopia
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • 4 Socialism and Its Critics
  • Communism, social democracy, and co-operative socialism
  • Communism
  • From communism to social democratic and co-operative socialism
  • Right-wing and neoliberal criticisms of socialism
  • From Nozick and Hayek back to socialism
  • Green and feminist criticisms
  • Ecology and the implications for socialism
  • Feminism and the implications for socialism
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • 5 The Democratic Economy
  • From an extractive to a circulatory economy
  • Institutional change and socialism
  • Plurality and reversibility
  • Scaling up
  • Localism and its limits
  • National and public ownership
  • Community wealth building internationally
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • 6 Alternative Globalization
  • Political globalization
  • Below global approaches
  • Alter-globalization in society
  • A Fifth International
  • Open borders
  • Philosophical and principled arguments
  • Economic and social arguments
  • Are open borders possible?
  • Conclusions
  • Further reading
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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