The Socialist Register Series
The Socialist Register 2020
Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living
How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment?
About the book
How can we build a future with better health and homes, respecting people and the environment? Connecting with and going beyond classical socialist themes, each essay in this volume combines analysis of how we are living now with plans and visions for new strategic, programmatic, manifesto-oriented directions for alternative ways of living.
Contents
- Postcapitalism: Alternatives or Detours? (Greg Albo)
- Social Reproduction in the 21st Century (Nancy Fraser)
- The Household In and Beyond Capitalism (Ursula Huws)
- Not for Sale, Public Spaces and Public Ownership (Nancy Holmstrom)
- Human Ecology, Contradictions of Restoration, Possibilities of Restitution (Barbara Harris White)
- Insurgency, Solidarity, Survival, Climate and the Left (Jeremy Brecher)
- Accounting for Taste, after American Global Cuisine (Arun Gupta)
- The Urban Space: Housing and Anti-Capitalist Resistance (Karl Beitel)
- Communism in the Suburbs (Roger Keil)
- Beyond Neoliberal Fashion, Transforming How We Clothe Ourselves (Geronimo Montero Bressan)
- The Bleakness of Everyday Life vs. Landscapes of Communism (Owen Hatherley)
- Living, Not Just Surviving (Alyssa Battistoni)
- Living In and After the Rust Belt (Michelle Chen)
- The Making of China’s New Dangerous Class (Yu Chunsen)
- Education for Democracy: Remaking Workers (Katharyne Mitchell & Key McFarlane)
- Refugees and Democracy: The Challenge from City Plaza (Amy Bartholomew & Hilary Wainwright)
- Towards Zero Violence (Sylvia Walby)
- Utopian Visions: Art After Capitalism (Mao Mollona)
- References