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Paul Auerbach’s Socialist Optimism offers an alternative political economy for the
twenty-first century. Present-day capitalism has generated growing inequality
of income and wealth, persistent high levels of unemployment and
ever-diminishing prospects for young people. But in the absence of a positive
vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present
trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the
critique of present-day developments.



The detailed blueprint presented here focuses upon the education and
upbringing of children in the context of social equality and household
security. It yields a well-defined path to human development and liberation, as
well as democratic control of working life and public affairs. Socialism as
human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are
otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a
pervasive capitalist reality.