There was a time, not so long ago, when both critics and defenders of capitalism believed that “another world was possible.” It was generally called “socialism.” While the right condemned socialism as violating individual rights to private property and unleashing monstrous forms of state oppression, and the left saw socialism as opening up new vistas of social equality, genuine freedom and the ...

ohn E. Roemer, a leading socialist economist, has recently proclaimed a “Future for Socialism” (Roemer 1994). His book is advertised as being “measured, highly accessible, and most of all compelling.” I have come to the opposite conclusions. Roemer’s most provocative assertion is his claim to have found “ways of reformulating the concept of market socialism in response to the Hayekian critique”...

Socialists today can learn from Marcuse. Starting this premise paper discusses and elaborates on Herbert Marcuse?s trajectory to socialism. Marcuse successfully eluded the trap of ?economism?, turned subjectivity in search a socialist solution. The transition socialism is possible through creation new anthropology expressed concept ?new sensibility?. prototype human an anti-superman. Peace beau...

What does a socialist at heart do when he has become disillusioned with the experience of socialism in the East and flabbergasted with the extraordinary resilience and spreading out of capitalism everywhere? When he knows, deep down, that capitalism has become ‘part of the natural order of things’ and that a wholesome transformation of the social bases of production is unlikely, if not impossib...

IN THIS ARTICLE I WILL DISCUSS MISES’ FAMOUS argument concerning economic calculation under socialism. I will point out that there are in fact two components of this argument. The first part deals with the fact that in capitalist economies, factors of production are allocated based on profit-andloss calculations in terms of (money) prices. Inasmuch as such calculations cannot be performed under...

In the last decade we have faced important changes in the framework of ideologies at the international level. On the one hand we have seen a consolidation of the awareness upon the environment. On the other hand, since the fall down of the Berlin wall, the world-wide discredit of socialism has grown up, it has bad press. In words of O’Connor (1998: 49) “during the past two or three decades, eco...

At the center of a socialist alternative to capitalism, in whatever way socialism is understood, is the problem of economic institutions, specifically the social organization of power over the allocation of resources and control of production and distribution. In statist conceptions of socialism such power and control operates primarily through the state, in the strongest version through the di...

This study examines the relationship between socialist ideology and the current negative health lifestyles of the Russian population. We explore the possibility that Soviet-style socialism with its negation of individuality and individual initiative in health matters promoted the development of a passive orientation toward healthy living. Using a national sample, we compare the health practices...

This review essay discusses the educational resources on democratic socialism that author encountered and in some cases co-created after retiring from academia working to develop pedagogical activist missions of Democratic Socialists America Fund as Chair DSA Board. Based this experience, it offers his ideal version Socialism 101.