Neither Fully Automated Nor Particularly Luxurious
6 July 2024 at 07:44
"On those occasions when Marxists have engaged the nature of a future socialist society, they too often shied away from problematizing future difficulties in favor of assuring the unconvinced that the difficulties involved in the construction of a socialist society had been vastly exaggerated. Yet working people well understand from their experience of capitalism that building a new society will be far from simple. ... What is instead needed is an honest presentation of the risks, costs, and dilemmas the socialist project will face, alongside credible examples and promising indications of how the problems might be creatively addressed." Sam Gindin lays out a blueprint for the future, in "Socialism for Realists," in Catalyst.
A briefer overview can be found in his interview in Jacobin, "What a Socialist Society Could Actually Look Like."
A briefer overview can be found in his interview in Jacobin, "What a Socialist Society Could Actually Look Like."