Tony Smith’s new Book “A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” published

Marxist theorist Tony Smith just published the book A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century Towards the ‘Full and Free Development of Every Individual’, at Brill. After outlining a Marxist critique of capitalism, the rest of the book outlines a proposal for a 21st century republican socialism, with it extensively discussing its political institutions as well as how it would engage in production, distribution, resource allocation and economic calculation. A PDF of the book is available online while a hardback edition of the book will be published shortly.

Here’s the summary of the book:

“Marx called for a society where the ruling principle is ‘the full and free development of every individual.’ Capitalism neither is nor can be such a society. Domination, worsening ecological crises, and many other pathologies are its intrinsic features—not bugs that can be corrected. But is there truly a better way to organize society? And if we can imagine one, can we be confident it could be put into practice? The answer to both questions is an emphatic ‘Yes!’ This book makes the case. It describes in detail a workable model of republican socialism, a vision of socialism worth fighting for.”

The book is available here.