O grande filosofo marxista(analitico) G.A.Cohen, apresentou em uma Seminário na UCL, em 2008, uma versão do que viria a ser seu último trabalho recentemente publicado:Why not socialism? Comprei meu exemplar na Amazon. com, em 4 de novembro, mas ainda não o recebi . Incrível, mas não tinham em stock e quando finalmente conseguiram enviar um exemplar já estavamos no natal... dai... Vale a leitura, principalmente, para aqueles acostumados com a qualidade sofrivel do marxismo nos dois lados do rio pinheiros.
The question that forms the title of this short book is not intended
rhetorically. I begin by presenting what I believe to be a compelling preliminary case for socialism, and I then ask why that case might be thought to be merely preliminary, why, that is, it might, in the end, be defeated: I try to see how well the preliminary case stacks up on further reflection.
To summarize more specifically: In Part I I describe a context, called “the camping trip”, in which most people would, I think, strongly favour a socialist form of life over feasible alternatives. Part II specifies two principles, one of equality and one of community, that are realised on the camping trip, and whose realisation explains, so I believe, why the camping trip mode of organization is attractive. In Part III, I ask whether those principles also make (society-wide) socialism desirable. But I also ask,in Part IV, whether socialism is feasible, by discussing difficulties that face the project of promoting socialism’s principles not in the mere small, such as within the confined time and space of a camping trip, but throughout society as a whole, in a permanent way. Part V is a short coda
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