The Socialist Experiment (Paperback)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Nbm House, 2026

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Paperback. In 1848, two young German exiles published a short pamphlet arguing that industrial capitalism was doomed. Seventy years later, revolutionaries quoting that pamphlet seized the largest country on earth and set out to abolish private property, markets, and the wage system. Over the next century, governments inspired by those ideas ruled a third of the world's population, electrified peasant empires, achieved mass literacy and space programs-and produced famine, forced labor, and some of the worst state-organized catastrophes in history.Then the system largely collapsed. The market, it seemed, had won.Except the argument never really ended.The Socialist Experiment is neither a defense of socialism nor a victory lap for capitalism. It is a clear-eyed reconstruction of the most ambitious attempt ever made to replace the market, and an honest accounting of what that attempt revealed. Beginning in the villages and guild towns the market displaced, it follows the transformation of land, labor, and capital through the factories and slums of industrial England. It examines Marx's genuine insights and the places his theory broke. It walks through the actual experiments-utopian communes, War Communism, Stalin's command economy, Maoist China, Yugoslav self-management, cooperatives, democratic socialism, and the welfare state-and stages the enduring arguments about incentives, knowledge, and power.The book shows why socialism emerged not from envy or irrationality but from real problems industrial capitalism created, and why those problems did not vanish when the experiments failed. It explains how markets coordinate dispersed knowledge and generate innovation, and how they also produce outcomes no one chose, convert needs into purchasing power, and concentrate power in ways that threaten political equality. Most modern economies, it argues, are hybrids: messy, pragmatic mixtures of markets, regulation, redistribution, and collective provision that no pure ideology can claim.Socialism failed to abolish the market. It succeeded in forcing the market to explain why it deserved to survive. That explanation is still being written, and we are living inside it.For readers of economic history, political ideas, and anyone who senses that the old twentieth-century debate is not quite finished. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
The Socialist Experiment (Paperback)
Autor
Nik Matthews
Verlag
Nbm House
Erscheinungsjahr
2026
Zustand
new
Einband
Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-13
9798235029248

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