Imagine
Subtitle: living in a socialist USA
By: edited by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith
Contributors: Smith, Deborah (Registered nurse), editor; Smith, Michael Steven, 1942- editor
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780062305572
Subjects: Politics and government; Socialism; Political participation
Other titles: Socialist USA; Living in a socialist USA; Socialist United States of America; Living in a socialist United States of America
Description: The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the top one percent own as much as the bottom eighty. Government police-state spying on its citizens is pervasive. Consequently, as former President Jimmy Carter has said, "we have no functioning democracy." Imagine : Living In a Socialist USA, edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith, is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri de coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. This anthology features essays by revolutionary thinkers, activists, and artists--including Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, civil rights activist Angela Davis, incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, and economist Rick Wolff--addressing various aspects of a new society and, crucially, how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What's wrong with capitalism? --; title: Imagining socialism --; title: Getting there : how to make a socialist America.