How to Think About (And Win) Socialism
A revolutionary rupture is not on the horizon, but capitalism can still be overcome.
A striking worker at a Safeway grocery store in Washington DC during the city’s 1974 retail clerks strike. Washington Area Spark / Flickr
Dylan Riley’s essay, “An Anticapitalism That Can Win” raises two clusters of criticisms of my book Envisioning Real Utopia and my Jacobin article “How to Be an Anticapitalist Today.” The first concerns my conception of socialism as an alternative to capitalism; the second my approach to the strategies of social transformation needed to transcend capitalism.
I think, in fact, we are not as far apart in our understanding of socialism as he seems to think, but we do differ in fundamental ways in our understanding of how to get there.
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Riley is quite critical of my proposal for a reformulation of the concept of socialism. I will first briefly describe my argument, and then respond to Riley’s criticisms.
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