I recently saw the PSL promoting this book, it’s about how a socialist USA could look like and as mentioned in the title, is it worth it? If not, are the any different good books regarding this topic?
I recently saw the PSL promoting this book, it’s about how a socialist USA could look like and as mentioned in the title, is it worth it? If not, are the any different good books regarding this topic?
I’m a candidate member of the PSL and I am reading through it currently. I absolutely think it’s worth every (American) comrade’s time and will likely be writing a review and synopsis of the highlights once I’m done (similar to what I did for Marx’s Wage Labour & Capital, Marx’s Value, Price, & Profit, and Parenti’s Inventing Reality).
The introduction writes at length to explain why the PSL is departing, at least partially, from the Marxist tradition of avoiding detailed “blueprints” about what comes after the revolution. Namely, the specific material conditions mentioned below (points (1), (5), and (8)), the priorities deriving from those conditions (points (2), (6), and (9), respectively), and the specific actions to execute on those priorities (points (3)/(4), (7), and (10), respectively):