10/2/10

Journal: A socialist society

What would a future socialist society look like?
Leela Yellesetty
looks at what the Marxist tradition has said about the question--as well as what the experience of past struggles and movements can tell us about the answer. This three-part series was published in on socialistworker.org in July 2010
  • Capitalism has no answers for the vast majority of people who don't enjoy its tremendous wealth. But what would an alternative look like?
  • The best way to see the potential of a future society is to look at the mass movements of the past that have shaken capitalism.
  • Imagine growing up in a world where you've never known war or poverty or exploitation, and where people's needs, not profits, have always come first.