Michael A Lebowitz professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of beyond Marx s political economy of the working class (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and build it socialism for the twenty-first century (Monthly Review Press, 2006). He works with the Centro Internacional Mirnda in Venezuela, where the original version of this text was published as a booklet, and is currently completing the socialist real human development to be published by Monthly Review Press.
Michael Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and the author of several books including The Socialist Imperative, The Contradictions of “Real Socialism,” and The Socialist Alternative. He was Director, Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development, Centro Internacional Miranda, in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2006-11.