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Socialism… Seriously

A Brief Guide to Human Liberation

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Socialism… Seriously

By: Danny Katch
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
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Opinion polls show that many people in the US prefer socialism to capitalism. But after being declared dead and buried for decades, socialism has come to mean little more than something vaguely less cruel and stupid than what we have now. That's not exactly going to inspire millions to storm the barricades.

Danny Katch brings together the two great Marxist traditions of Karl and Groucho to provide an entertaining and insightful introduction to what the socialist tradition has to say about democracy, economics, and the potential of human beings to be something more than bomb-dropping, planet-destroying, racist fools.

©2015 Danny Katch (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Political Science Politics & Government Socialism Capitalism Soviet Union Tradition
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A 'mostly' thoughtful and pragmatic introduction that has helped me massively make a bit more sense of the complex ideas, values and role socialism has. I will be referring back to this, it's given me much to think about, and soothed alot of uncertainty I had about my own vague beliefs, I feel much more comfortable calling myself a socialist after reading this, after years of struggling with doing so due to the complexity and vagueness of the term.

This helped me alot.

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The funnyiest book I have ever sisten to on such a serious topic. Easy to understand even for a political illitterate

The funnyiest book

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Really great balance of information and humour, feel like I’ve retained everything that was in it which is pretty rare!

Perfect introduction to socialism

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I'm interested in socialism, fairly liberal and have plenty of criticisms of capitalism as we see it today. however this book is not really convincing at all. the book seems to be written for people who have already decided that socialism is correct and just need arguments. it's not written to convince people who are genuinely on the fence. In first chapter the author strangely argues everything is getting worse, despite it being well established that war, terrorism, poverty, disease, hunger and prejudice and discrimination are literally the lowest they've ever been in human history. from there it was all downhill.

heavy on stories & jokes, thin on data & evidence

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Im trying to find a credible argument for socialism. This book is totally ridiculous. Where it makes simple arguments for why capitalism is terrible (i agree its broken), it argues over simplistic reasons for why 'this vision' is plausible. Of course, the author tries to explain that other socialist models didn't work, mostly because it was the wrong type of socialism everywhere else so far, but fails miserably. It does cover some of the changes in broken capital models and climate change, but with impossible, only in dreamland, solutions. Ironically, the author calls for a uprising of millions for a better world, but seems to count the current support for such radical change as the absolute minority. Typically, it ignores the human need for consumerism. If you want a really simple, easy life with little desire. This is your model. Still worth leaning how others think tho. Those who want this, could separate themselves already

Laughable - seriously.

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