Why Not Socialism? - Gerald A. Cohen Audiobook
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Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world’s leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.
There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, campers wouldn’t dream of charging each other to use a soccer ball or for fish that they happened to catch. Campers do not give merely to get, but relate to each other in a spirit of equality and community. Would such socialist norms be desirable across society as a whole? Why not? Whole societies may differ from camping trips, but it is still attractive when people treat each other with the equal regard that such trips exhibit.
But, however desirable it may be, many claim that socialism is impossible. Cohen writes that the biggest obstacle to socialism isn’t, as often argued, intractable human selfishness–it’s rather the lack of obvious means to harness the human generosity that is there. Lacking those means, we rely on the market. But there are many ways of confining the sway of the market: there are desirable changes that can move us toward a socialist society in which, to quote Albert Einstein, humanity has “overcome and advanced beyond the predatory stage of human development.”
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 2/5
July 23rd, 2017
>cohen
Something something is right again
July 24th, 2017
Too bad … I just wrote a long and heart-felt comment on why socialism, has been disproven time and again and why it will NEVER EVER work. But the system deleted it.
But who cares? If the people (and idiot book-authors) want socialsim, they shall have it. Just like the people of Venezuela. They’re killing each other on the streets and they are starving as a direct result of socialism.
Let them have socialism. And let them suffer.
July 24th, 2017
@jonwb they don’t learn … but let them show itself.
July 25th, 2017
and round and round the illusion tumbles. Reading Animal Farm would be a good idea.
July 25th, 2017
Current socialist utopia (heading to centuries old list of abject catastrophes) - Venezuela, nuff said.
July 25th, 2017
“The usual sign of confusion in our basic ideas on any topic is the persistence of rival doctrines, all many times refuted yet not abandoned”
Susanne K. Langer FEELING AND FORM
July 25th, 2017
The conclusions of Mr. Cohen et al conflate values as the “desired” and the “desirable”: what people actually desire versus what they think ought to be desired. Equating them is a “positivistic fallacy”, which leads to a confusion between reality and social desirability. Socialism is illusional an its adherents are simply delusional.
July 29th, 2017
AIG, GM, Chrysler and a host of banks were saved by government. Medicare, social security, unemployment benefits etc show that socialism is here-you either just haven’t accepted it or have turned a willfully blind eye.
July 30th, 2017
So… let me get this straight. Socialism has been around in some form of another for more than a century now. And in that time governments trying to make socialism work have been responsible for more mass deaths, more environmental damage, and general deprivations of human rights than pretty much any other government system that’s been tried in the modern history of humanity…. But yet someone this Gerald A. Cohen guy… yeah he’s got it all figured out and he’s done in less that 30 megs of audio.
Sure thing buddy. We’ll get right on implementing THAT one right away.
September 1st, 2017
I see the usual bankster shills commenting on this audiobook. Fact (which even Einstein recognised): under capitalism, all money is a commodity issued as debt at interest. Thus, there is always less money in the system than debts owed. Thus, all profit pushes another human being in debt and so poverty. Hence the situation we see today: 80 percent of the planet in poverty.
Capitalism is a giant con-game which unfolds exactly like the Monopoly boardgame. It exploits the majority at the behest of an excluded minority.
December 2nd, 2017
@jonwb
A lot of prominent pro-Capitalism intellectuals are Jewish too. Don’t be a simpleton.
December 28th, 2017
This should come with a empty cooking book
May 17th, 2019
I’ll be posting this comment here again, because it has proven to be a great argument stopper:
What’s the first thing that falls in any crisis? It’s the economy, stupid. Just look at any country in crisis right now, from Venezuela to Syria, the government holds onto power, while all the oh-so-mighty companies collapsed. THAT is all you need to know about where tyranny comes from.
Rich people can only be rich by the group’s consensus on the value of money. It is ultimately entirely democratic.
The truth about capitalism is that without it incentivizing the most genius people to work way beyond sanity, we would never have gotten the modern world. THere’s a reason why a single country such as England invented more than all communist countries combined, having had over a Billion people under them at their peak.
It often feels like talking to children, there just never is an actually rational response.
February 11th, 2024
Most of the people here clearly haven’t listened to the book and the ratings are politically motivated.
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