I wrote an essay, “Toward Socialism,” fairly quickly, several years ago (2018). I wanted it to be succinct as such things go, believing I would later expand on its principal assumptions, premises, and arguments, but today I find myself content with it as it stands. It would be helpful, however, to have a separate piece on just what socialism entails (and might entail) for a Liberal welfare state such as ours (as in the work of David Schweickart and the late Erik Olin Wright); some of which may apply to other countries with more benevolent, generous and equal (which in effect means increased freedom) welfare state regimes, as well as states around the world both more democratic and less democratic than the U.S. (increasingly, there are states significantly more democratic than the U.S., assessed by the various criteria used by those institutes and organizations ‘measuring’ such things).
The following bibliographies freely available on my Academia page contain reading and research material that one can consider background and context for the essay:
- Salvador Allende and the Quest for Socialism
- Samir Amin
- Beyond Capitalist Agribusiness: Toward Agroecology & Food Justice
- Beyond Capitalist-Attenuated Time: Freedom, Leisure, and Self-Realization
- Beyond Inequality: Toward the Globalization of Welfare, Well-Being and Human Flourishing
- Beyond Punitive Capitalist and Liberal Society
- Blacks on the (Radical) Left
- Capitalist and Other Distortions of Democratic Education
- Communism in India
- Democratic Theory and Praxis
- Elections & Voting
- Global Distributive Justice
- The Great Depression and the New Deal
- Health: Law, Ethics & Social Justice
- Human Rights
- Ethics, Law, and Politics of Immigration & Refugees
- C.L.R. James: Marxist Humanist & Afro-Trinidadian Socialist
- The History, Theory & Praxis of the Left in the 1960s
- The Political Philosophy of Liberalism
- Marxism (or ‘the Left’), Art & Aesthetics
- Marxism and Freudian Psychology
- Toward a Marxist Theory of International Law
- Mass Media: Politics, Political Economy, and Law
- Otto Neurath & Red Vienna: Mutual Philosophical, Scientific and Socialist Fecundity
- Public Health: Social Epidemiology, Ethics, and Law
- Punishment and Prison
- Social Security and the Welfare States
- Sullied (Natural & Social) Sciences
- Toward Green Socialist Democracy
- Utopian Thought and Imagination
- Workers, the World of Work, and Labor Law
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