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"Is socialism an impossible, discredited dream or the only realistic path for human survival? If you're not sure of the answer, or are just curious about what the Left really believes in, you need to read Maass. He's the Tom Paine of the contemporary American left."—Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
Global capitalism is in its worst crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployment is growing. America's imperial wars rage on. In this brilliant polemic, translated to Spanish, Alan Maass argues that the alternative is a democratically planned economy based on workers' control.
Alan Maass is the editor of socialistworker.org, a daily website of left news and opinion, and the Socialist Worker newspaper.
Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”
Introduction: The Case for Socialism
1 Why Capitalism Doesn’t Work
2 Land of the Not-So-Free
3 The Scourge of War
4 What Is the Socialist Alternative?
5 How Do We Change the System?
6 “If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
7 Socialism, the Struggle, and You
Afterword by Howard Zinn:
Eugene V. Debs and the Idea of Socialism
Further Reading