by Simon Hannah
Pluto Press
11/20/2024, paperback
SKU: 9780745350202
In a world gripped by endless crises and climate breakdown, the demand to reshape our economic system has never been more urgent. Reclaiming the Future by Simon Hannah is a beginner's guide to planning a new economy, taking readers on a transformative journey towards a radically democratic society where the power and control over our lives are firmly in our hands.
Decades of right-wing scaremongering have tried to consign economic planning to the dustbin, but the need for it is greater than ever - it might be the only thing that can save us from climate catastrophe. In this myth-busting and accessible guide, Hannah suggests the building blocks for a grassroots economy of radical abundance within planetary limits.
Reviews:
"Simon Hannah presents 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 species. And 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
"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
About the Author:
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.