Description
In this major new work, one of America's leading thinkers of the democratic Left argues convincingly that socialist renewal is the only hope for progress and freedom in the twenty-first century. A new civilization is already in the making, Harrington maintains, one of increasing automation and un- precedented international interdependence. Old frontiers are crumbling around the world as huge multinational companies, often in collaboration with their respective governments, already engage in global planning. The costs of this transformation are borne not only by the Third World but also by the new poor and precariouล middle classes of the so- called advanced nations.
Tracing two centuries of socialist history - and emphasizing the difference between true socialist liberalism and the pseudosocialisms such as Communism and National Socialism with which it is often confused Harrington shows that despite all its flaws and failures the basic principles are sound. Because it places human values before doctrinaire political or blindly monetary considerations, it may also well be, Harrington says, our only hope for the future.
ISBN:9781559700009
