{"product_id":"the-blueprint","title":"The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCapitalism isn’t working. But is there a plausible alternative?\u003ci\u003e The Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side. Drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets, \u003ci\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the hardest questions about what went wrong in the past—and why it can go right in the future. The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/em\u003e takes the question of how socialism might actually work seriously enough to venture an answer. The argument is rigorous but not airless and is honest about the tradeoffs involved. A genuinely useful book for how to exit the current labyrinth.\" GREG GRANDIN, author of\u003cem\u003e America, América\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" DAVID HARVEY, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Nothing is more urgently needed in our troubled world than a blueprint for socializing capital, democratizing workplaces, restoring the commons, decommodifying basic goods and harnessing markets to society’s needs. This book has arrived with perfect timing.\" YANIS VAROUFAKIS, author of \u003cem\u003eTechnofeudalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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, author of\u003cem\u003e The Age of Insecurity\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I think \u003cem\u003eThe Blueprint \u003c\/em\u003eis an excellent book that—given its pedigree and waxing support for socialist politicians in America and elsewhere—ought to shape the conversation going forward. It should be the final nail in the coffin of the cliché that 21st-century socialists are just repackaging 19th-century ideas. If nothing else, The Blueprint is proof positive of the intellectual energy on today’s left. It’s brimming with imagination tempered by realism, and vision partnered with practicality. In other words: it’s just the kind of book we need right now.\" Matthew McManus,  \u003cem\u003eLiberal Currents\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45078518202461,"sku":"9781839768637","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/TheBlueprintHowSocialismCanWorkintheRealWorld.jpg?v=1789937212","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/fr\/products\/the-blueprint","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}