کتاب حاضر مشتمل است بر گفت و گویی میان چهار پژوهشگر سوسیالیست به نام "دیوید شوایکارت"، "جیمز لالر"، "هلیل تیکتین "و "برتل المن"، که در همایش پژوهشگران سوسیالیست، در آوریل 1995، درباره "سوسیالیسم بازار "در نیویورک برگزار شد .بخش اول کتاب مربوط است به مقالات شوایکارت و لالر در دفاع از سوسیالیسم بازار .بخش دوم شامل مقالات تیکتین و المن در مخالفت با سوسیالیسم بازار است .در بخش سوم کتاب هر یک از مخالفان و موافقان سوسیالیسم بازار آرای یک دیگر را نقد میکنند .بخش پایانی کتاب هر یک از پژوهشگران نقدهای طرف مقابل را پاسخ میدهند .
Bertell Ollman is a professor of politics at New York University. He teaches both dialectical methodology and socialist theory. He is the author of several academic works relating to Marxist theory. Ollman is also the creator of Class Struggle, a board game based around his Marxist beliefs, and from 1978-1983 was president of Class Struggle, Inc., the company that initially produced and marketed the game. The game was later released by a major board game company, Avalon Hill. It received publicity due to its unusual and controversial theme.
Super uneven, but some good things buried in here. David Schweickart gives a good summary of his ideas. Hillel Ticktin doesn't engage with any of it and writes a truly bizarre response. Bertell Ollman's contributions on the topic are less interesting but he does write a very engaging take on market mystification from a Marxist-Humanist perspective too....
Dear Goodreads, Schweickart should not be credited for this book. Ollman was the editor. :P
Anyway, I liked this book. With four contributors it still captured a good diversity of ideas on the market socialism debate. I think all authors were able to agree on one important point that anyone who ascribes to any socialism should accept, it (may) be a better system but it's not utopia, any system will have it's trade-offs.