After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social … socialism could derive from the socialization of consumption, if the consumption of public goods continues to make up a growing …

example, it suggests that economist’s tendency to see the economy and government as separate and not co-evolving intertwined … economy as a complex evolving system, arguing an important policy goal of government is to set up an ecostructure that helps …. government do little to further that goal. …

Utopian socialists believed that socialism is inevitable because it is a more rational system to organize production …, Marxism stated that capitalism develops productive forces up to the point when they can no longer be managed efficiently in … capitalist limits. This prediction did not come true – in the XX century socialism came to being not in most advanced capitalist …

The paper considers four definitions of socialism. The definition of socialism as the public ownership of production … socialism as the overturn of the capital-labour relation. The author, however thinks that a correct definition requires the … public ownership of production means and the upsetting of the relation capital-labour. The other two definitions of socialism …