• Economic Crises, Environmental Crises: Moving Beyond Capitalism
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    Sartre, Camus and a Marxism for the 21st Century
    Sartre Studies International 24 (2): 1-24. 2018.
    Sartre, Camus, and a Marxism for the 21st Century
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    Capitalism or Worker Control? An Ethical and Economic Appraisal
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    Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists
    with Bertell Ollman, Hillel Ticktin, and James M. Lawler
    Routledge. 1998.
    Market Socialism: The Debate Among Socialists
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    After Capitalism, 2nd Edition
    Rowman and Littlefield. 2011.
    Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. In the second edition, Schweickart recognizes that increased globalization of companies has …Read more
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    We are facing a terrifying moment in human history, but also a miraculous moment. At the very time when climate change threatens our species with extinction, we not only know that we face an existential threat, we have the means not only to avert catastrophe, but to provide virtually everybody on our planet with the material means for decent life. This paper asks, and attempts to answer, a series of questions: Why are we not doing what needs to be done? Is there a viable alternative to our curre…Read more
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    Should Rawls be a Socialist?
    Social Theory and Practice 5 (1): 1-27. 1978.
  • Brill Academic Publishers. 2009.
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    Friendly Critics, Critical Issues
    Radical Philosophy Review of Books 11 (11): 54-67. 1995.
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    If we look at world history over the course of the past several centuries, it is hard to miss the fact that democracy has been advancing. Not steadily. There have been fits and starts, setbacks as well as gains, but it can scarcely be denied that the world is more democratic now than it was three centuries ago, or two centuries, or one century or fifty years ago or even twenty. There is scarcely a country in the world that does not at least call itself democratic. To be sure, there is a lot of h…Read more
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    When the relative importance of the national exploitation from which a working class suffers through belonging to the proletariat diminishes continually as compared with that from which it benefits through belonging to a privileged nation, a moment comes when the aim of increasing the national income in absolute terms prevails over that of the relative share of one part of the nation over the other. From that point onward the principle of national solidarity ceases to be challenged in principle,…Read more
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    After Capitalism
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.
    David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue—a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, Schweickar…Read more
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    Economic Democracy: A Worthy Socialism That Would Really Work
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    Unequal Exchange
    Philosophical Inquiry 9 (1-2): 26-43. 1987.
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    “Economic Democracy: A Worthy Socialism that Would Really Work” laid out a model that was to form the basis of my book Against Capitalism, published by Cambridge University Press in 1993. The article, like the book itself, was a theoretical response to the triumphalism of the TINA crowd that followed the collapse of Soviet Union and the rejection of socialism by its satellite states in Eastern Europe. “A Worthy Socialism” was intended to demonstrate rigorously that there is an alternative, at le…Read more
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    Schweickart argues that Gould in her most recent book seems to have shifted away from the notion of economic democracy as “one person, one vote” to a less radical modified stakeholder view in which the various constituents of the economic enterprise, including employees, stockholders, and managers, share in decision-making power. Noting that Gould does not explain why she holds that workplace democracy is a too stringent participatory demand, Schweickart brings up a variety of arguments that mig…Read more
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    Marxism in Latin America: A Defense
    Journal of Social Philosophy 17 (2): 20-35. 1986.
    Indeed the people are no longer what they were ten years ago. Some have been awakened by the revoluFionXy ferment. All have matured in blood and fire and become acutely conscious of their daily interests …… They have a strong belief in their historical mission, a salvation mission …… They are attracted by an extremely fascinating theory, Marxism, which is endowed with an immense power and is capable of turning the common people into fighters ready for all sacrifices
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    What are we to make of the "Parecon" phenomenon? Michael Albert 's book made it to number thirteen on Amazon.com a few days after some on-line promotion.1 Eight of the twelve Amazon.com reviewers had given the book five stars. It has been, or is being, translated into Arabic, Bengali, Telagu, Croatian, Czech, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.2 The book has been endorsed by Noam Chomsky, who says it "merits close attention, debate and action,…Read more
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    Friendly Critics, Critical Issues (review)
    Radical Philosophy Review of Books 11 (11): 54-67. 1995.
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    Debt and Deception
    Business Ethics Quarterly 17 (1): 147-161. 2007.
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    The State and Justice (review)
    Radical Philosophy Review of Books 3 (3): 34-38. 1991.
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    I T I S S T A R T L I N G T O realize that the concept of economic exploitation, which has been the focus of intense philosophical debate for what seems like decades now, was barely touched on in John Rawls's 1971 masterwork, A Theory o f Justice, the book that ushered in the present era of Anglo - American social and political philosophy. The subject was broached just once by Rawls, and only to be dismissed as being of such secondary importance as to be "out of place here."1 The concept, howeve…Read more
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    As we all know, Marx's powerful and compelling critique of capitalism provided no explicit model for a viable alternative to capitalism, no "recipes for cookshops of the future," in his disdainful phrase.1 Marx shouldn’t be faulted for this omission. He was a "scientific" socialist. Although there were sufficient data available to him to ground his critique of capitalism, there was little upon which to draw regarding alternative economic institutions. No "experiments" had been performed. We no l…Read more
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    Understanding Marx: A Reconstruction and Critique of Capital by Robert Paul Wolff (review)
    Journal of Philosophy 83 (12): 729-732. 1986.