The Blueprint
How Socialism Can Work in the Real World
Will be published approx. on 29. September 2026
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-83976-863-7 (ISBN)
Description
Capitalism isn't working but is there really an alternative? A provocative new book lays out one - a system where workers control every lever of production and competitive markets and state planning coexist, side by side.
The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century. One part economic theory, one part history, and one part manifesto, The Blueprint offers a path forward for an emerging Left that seeks not just to tame capitalism, but to overcome it. Sunkara, Beggs, and Burgis point the way to a better, more just economy. This is a plan for the future of socialism. The Blueprint is a plan that can work.
The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century. One part economic theory, one part history, and one part manifesto, The Blueprint offers a path forward for an emerging Left that seeks not just to tame capitalism, but to overcome it. Sunkara, Beggs, and Burgis point the way to a better, more just economy. This is a plan for the future of socialism. The Blueprint is a plan that can work.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83976-863-7 (9781839768637)
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Persons
Bhaskar Sunkara is the president of The Nation magazine, founder and editorial director of Jacobin, and the author of The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality. Sunkara is a Guardian US columnist who has published more than two hundred articles and essays about politics in outlets like the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, and Le Monde.
Mike Beggs is senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomic and monetary thinking and policy.
Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. He's the author of several books, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters.
Mike Beggs is senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomic and monetary thinking and policy.
Ben Burgis is a Jacobin columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast Give Them An Argument. He's the author of several books, most recently Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters.