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Title Imagine : living in a socialist USA / edited by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Harper Perennial, [2014]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  335 IMAGINE    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  335.009 IMA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  335.00973 IM    DUE 04-06-24
Edition First edition.
Description xv, 304 pages ; 21 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the top one percent own as much as the bottom eighty. Government police-state spying on its citizens is pervasive. Consequently, as former President Jimmy Carter has said, "we have no functioning democracy." Imagine: Living In a Socialist U.S.A., edited by Francis Goldin, Debby Smith, and Michael Steven Smith, is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri de coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democracy. This anthology features essays by revolutionary thinkers, activists, and artists--including Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore, civil rights activist Angela Davis, incarcerated journalist Mumia Abu Jamal, and economist Rick Wolff--addressing various aspects of a new society and, crucially, how to get from where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.
Contents What's wrong with capitalism? -- Imagining socialism -- Getting there : how to make a socialist America.
Subject Socialism -- United States.
Political participation -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
Political participation. (OCoLC)fst01069386
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Socialism. (OCoLC)fst01123637
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 2000 - 2099
Added Author Goldin, Frances, editor.
Smith, Debby (Activist), editor.
Smith, Michael Steven, 1942- editor.
Added Title Socialist USA
ISBN 9780062305572 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0062305573 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780062305589 (ebk.)
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