“This is a book for everyone who is aware that we are in a deep mess and need a plan to get out of it, which means that it is simply a book for everyone.”
—Slavoj Zizek
“It is rare indeed to find a book that so keenly matches the elegance of its arguments with the passion of its politics. Here we have an alternative economic blueprint for our time, a shining antidote to the crude bestiality of a fading and failing Trumpian regime. We can, the authors claim, for the first time in our history, ‘combine egalitarianism in distribution and democracy in production with the abundance of high-tech modernity.’ This is a book to ‘pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.’ Let the counter-attack to all that is obnoxious in our present circumstances begin.”
–David Harvey
“The Blueprint does something rare in left political writing: it takes the question of how socialism might actually work seriously enough to venture an answer. Beggs, Burgis, and Sunkara move past critique and gesture to sketch a workable blueprint — including worker-governed firms, democratic macroeconomic management, and fully funded, non-commodified health care, education, housing, care work, banking, and pensions — that could function at scale in a recognizable economy. The argument is rigorous but not airless and is honest about the tradeoffs involved – and how difficult it will be to reach even this near horizon. A genuinely useful book for how to exit the current labyrinth.”
–Greg Grandin
“The Blueprint is the clearest, most forceful, and most detailed case for market socialism that anyone has made for a generation, or more. It should be read, and debated, by all of us who want to build something better than capitalism, as well as the skeptics.”
–Cosma Shalizi
“What would it mean to actually live under democratic socialism? This visionary book takes this critical and too-often-ignored question seriously. The result is thought-provoking, informative, and surprisingly entertaining.”
–Astra Taylor
The Blueprint is OUT TODAY.
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