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The Socialist Imperative reviewed in Counterfire

The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now

The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now
By Michael A. Lebowitz
224 pp, $22 pbk, 9781583675465

Reviewed by Kit Klarenberg

The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now is Michael Lebowitz’s latest work, a gathering of eleven ruminations on the nature of socialism in the present day. In many ways, this is a refreshing volume that helpfully adds its voice to a suddenly resurgent and more confident left.

Books articulating theories of socialist development are voluminous in number. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the publication of such volumes has been fervid, as academics and Kathedersozialisten (armchair theorists) have struggled to make sense of the post-Cold War world with impotently speculative screeds….”

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