David Schweickart

After Capitalism (New Critical Theory)

Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. In the second edition, Schweickart recognizes that increased globalization of companies has created greater than ever interdependent economies and the debate about the desirability of entrepreneurship is escalating. The new edition includes a new preface, completely updated data, reorganized chapters, and new sections on the economic instability of capitalism, the current economic crisis, and China. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, Schweickart shows how and why this model is efficient, dynamic, and applicable in the world today.

After Capitalism

Bertell Ollman

James Lawler

Hillel Ticktin

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Debate Among Socialist

Market Socialism

Aside from Post Modernism, probably the hottest topic today among socialist scholars world-wide is Market Socialism. What exactly is Market Socialism? Which of our current problems would it solve, which leave untouched? How would it come about? What is its relation to capitalism? How does it compare with more traditional visions of socialism? What do other socialists find lacking in it, and what do they propose instead? In the present volume, four leading socialist scholars, who have been deeply involved in this debate - two for, two against - give their answers to these questions.

The Debate Among Socialists

Este libro es una versión totalmente reelaborada de una anterior obra del autor publicada en 1980, Capitalism or Worker Control? Su tesis central es que, a pesar del derrumbamiento del comunismo en la Europa del Este y el desmembramiento de la Unión Soviética, no es posible justificar el capitalismo desde ningún punto de vista, ni económico ni ético. En realidad, existe una alternativa al capitalismo que promete una mayor eficacia y un crecimiento más racional, así como más igualdad, más democracia y un trabajo con sentido. Esta alternativa, la "Democracia Económica", es un socialismo de mercado con planificación descentralizada de las inversiones y democracia en el trabajo. El Profesor Schweickart compara este modelo con otros modelos -el ideal conservador del "Laissez-Faire", el "estado del bienestar" keynesiano y el "Nuevo Isquierdismo" contemporáneo- y afirma su superioridad en casi todos los aspectos. Además, hace un esbozop de las posibles formas de transición a la Democracia Económica desde el capitalismo avanzado, desde lo que queda de las economías de planificación central y desde el subdesarrollo del Tercer Mundo. Y concluye con algunas reflexiones acerca del comunismo de Marx, del materialismo histórico y del futuro del marxismo. Esta provocativa obra se dirige de manera especial a los filósofos de la política, a los expertos en ciencias políticas y a los economistas, pero tiene también mucho que decir a todos cuantos se interesan por la posibilidad de una alternativa económicamente viable al capitalismo. DAVID SCHWEICKART es profesor de filosofía en la "Loyola University" de Chicago (Ohio).

Más allá del capitalismo

Capitalism is hegemonic today not because it is the best we fallible humans can do but because it supports, and is supported by, special interests of immense power. This book argues that Economic Democracy, a competitive economy of democratically run enterprises that replaces capitalist financial markets with more suitable institutions, will be more efficient than capitalism, more rational in its growth, more democratic, more egalitarian, and less alienating.Against Capitalism is an ambitious book, drawing on philosophical analysis, economic theory, and considerable empirical evidence to advance its controversial thesis. It examines both conservative and liberal forms of capitalism; it compares Economic Democracy to other models of socialism; and it considers the transition to Economic Democracy from advanced capitalist societies, from economies built on the Soviet model, and from conditions of underdevelopment. The book concludes with some unconventional reflections on historical materialism, ideal communism, and the future of Marxism.

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