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The evils of centrally planned socialism on the Soviet model are widely proclaimed, but capitalism has equally negative side effects: gross maldistribution of the fruits of the economy, the breeding of a mass consumer culture, and destruction of the environment among them. Capitalism may well collapse under its own excesses, but what would one propose to replace it? Margaret Thatcher's mantra was TINA...There Is No Alternative. David Schweickart's vision of "Economic Democracy" proposes a serious alternative. Even more fundamentally, it opens the door to thinking about alternatives. His may or may not turn out to be the definitive "successor system," but he is a leader in breaking out… Read more
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It doesn't matter how boring you thought history was when you were in school, after reading Zinn's book you will see US history through different eyes. This book looks at US history through the eyes of its victims: Indians, slaves, laborers, women, immigrants, soldiers, the labor movement, pacifists, etc. You don't understand this country today until you understand how we got here.
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