Reclaiming the Future by Simon Hannah

Reclaiming the Future by Simon Hannah

Economics for the people

'A convincing case for socialist democratic planning as the only way to meet the needs of billions of humans without destroying the planet and other speciesAnd it offers a political strategy for how you can fight for such a world.'

-- Michael Roberts, economist and author of Capitalism in the 21st Century

'A sober and engaging assessment of the most urgent problem of our generation: how to transcend capitalism in order to build a real democracy, peace, environmental sustainability, and social justice in an ecosocialist society based on the principle of solidarity, rather than inequality and exploitation. Hannah dissects on the drawbacks of capitalism, and outlines how to build an actual, functioning socialist society on that basis. An excellent book that deserves to be read widely.'

-- Alfredo Saad-Filho, University of Johannesburg

'Simon Hannah emphasises the urgent need for a vision of a utopia that reclaims ecosocialist and democratic futures, through critical analysis of past socialist experiences that failed to achieve this. Drawing on real struggles for environmental and social justice, Reclaiming the Future is a radical theoretical and concrete criticism of the capitalist short-term profit-oriented logics, offering a major contribution to the growing debates on post-capitalism.'

-- Catherine Samary, researcher in political economy, co-editor of Decolonial Communism, Democracy and the Commons

Simon Hannah is a writer, activist, and trade unionist living in South London. He is an assistant branch secretary in UNISON and has written several books, including A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left, which was a Guardian Book of the Day. John McDonnell is a British Labour Party politician first elected in 1997, who served as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020, in the later years under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. Sitting on the left of the party, he served as chair of the Socialist Campaign Group in Parliament and the Labour Representation Committee as well as the Public Services Not Private Profit Group. In 2024 he was suspended from the party as a result of voting to scrap the two child benefit cap.

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ISBN 13	9780745350202
ISBN 10	0745350208
Title	Reclaiming the Future
Author	Simon Hannah
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pluto Press
Year published	2024-11-20
Number of pages	272
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