This book confronts head-on the strongest arguments against socialism: arguing for a society based on human solidarity, social ownership of industry and banks, and political, economic and social democracy. A dialogue: a Marxist takes on an anti-socialist.
These three texts bring together a perspective on what it means to be a socialist in the Labour party. Corbynism: What went wrong? tracks reflections on the 2015-20 period, analysing the mistakes that the Corbyn leadership made. Socialism makes sense confronts head-on the strongest arguments against socialism now in circulation, inside the Labour Party and beyond, and argues for a society based on human solidarity, social ownership of industry and banks, and on political, economic, and social democracy. Democracy, Direct action and Socialism brings together head-to-head debates between the revolutionary left (Sean Matgamna) and the traditional Labour left (Michael Foot), focused on the alternatives posed to the labour movement in the fight against the Thatcher Tories from 1979 to the mid-1980s. The core political arguments remain crucial.
The economic crisis of 2008 and its aftershocks cracked the mystique which the world capitalist system had built in the two decades after the collapse of Russian and European Stalinism. For the first time in 30 years the left is on the offensive in the Labour Party.
Socialism is again on the agenda — a society based on human solidarity, social ownership of industry and banks, and on political, economic, and social democracy.
This book confronts head-on the strongest arguments against socialism now in circulation, inside the Labour Party and beyond.
It is a substantially reworked (also, much shorter and cheaper) second edition of Can Socialism Make Sense? (2016) — in particular, of section A, the "Unfriendly Dialogue". This edition is mostly in dialogic form.
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