"Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and...

Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...