It is an open question whether socialism will ever exist on a national or international scale. But if it will, come about in ways different from what both Marxists and anarchists have traditionally thought. In this article I present eleven "theses" regarding how might be possible for the world to achieve economically democratic civilization era of unprecedented crisis. process, try explain has ...

This paper argues that economic planning under Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s was essentially similar, both in process and outcome. Both economies had fixed prices and used coercion as part of a rather chaotic process of resource allocation; consumption in both countries was sacrificed to investment in heavy industry. Both economies can be thought of as socialist, and socialism in the 1930s was...

This paper is about the story of Shangbu, an industrial district that has been regenerated into a retailing and commercial center in the socialist market economy of Shenzhen, China. The Shangbu Industrial District (SID) was first set up in the early 1980s at the western edge of the core of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) to attract foreign direct investment after China adoption of the...