Reflections on Socialism in the Twenty-First Century: Facing Market Liberalism, Rising Inequalities and the Environmental Imperative
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Widening Income and Wealth Gaps -- Sustainable Development and the Environmental Imperative -- Neoliberalism: From Casino Capitalism to Voodoo Economics -- Is There a Nordic Model? -- The Nordic Countries in Comparison with other OECD Countries - 2018 -- So Why Socialism? -- The Book Project -- Democratic Socialism and Karl Polanyi -- What This Volume Is About -- References -- Chapter 2: Possible Socialisms and the Challenges of the Globalizing Learning Economy in the Anthropocene Age -- Introduction -- Why Socialism? Classical Arguments -- Ending the Exploitation of the Working Class -- Socializing the Means of Production -- Preventing Economic Crises and Unemployment -- Planning for the Future -- Building Science-Based Societies -- Are the Classical Arguments Still Valid in the Globalizing Learning Economy? -- Why Socialism? Contemporary Reasons -- Ending Exploitation (in and) Between Countries -- Inclusive Political and Socioeconomic Systems -- Social Democracy in One Country? -- Constructive Answers to Global Challenges -- Planning in the Anthropocene -- Democracy and Planning -- On the Role of Innovation, Knowledge, and Learning in Socialist Planning -- What Kind of Socialism? -- China: A Flexible Autarchy? -- China's Attempts to Build a Knowledge-Based Economy -- China Engages in Developing Green Technologies -- Lessons to Be Learned from the China Case -- China and the Outside World -- How to Get There -- Revolution and Reform -- Can Socialism Grow Within and Behind The Back of Capitalism? -- The UN Sustainable Development Goals -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Social Democracy and the Fate of the Swedish Model -- Introduction -- Seeds of the Early Century -- 1917: On the Brink of a Swedish Revolution?.
