{"product_id":"the-blueprint-how-socialism-can-work-in-the-real-world","title":"The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Mike Beggs, Ben Burgis, and Bhaskar Sunkara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVerso Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9\/29\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: \u003cspan\u003e9781839768637\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNeither capitalism nor central planning, this is the future for socialism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCapitalism isn't working. But is there a plausible alternative? \u003ci\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e lays one out: a system where workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side. Drawing on the history of socialist experiments and the economic debate over planning and markets, \u003ci\u003eThe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e confronts the hardest questions about what went wrong in the past--and why it can go right in the future. The result is a socialism worthy of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"Democratic socialism is gaining popularity and credibility as the failures of capitalism become harder to ignore. But what would it mean to actually live under democratic socialism? This visionary book takes this critical and too-often-ignored question seriously. The result is thought-provoking, informative, and surprisingly entertaining. The future is anything but preordained, and wrestling with the ideas and proposals in this book can help us create a more just and enjoyable world.\" --Astra Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Age of Insecurity\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/collections\/just-added\/products\/end-times-fascism-and-the-fight-for-the-living-world\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnd Times Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"It is rare indeed to find a book that so keenly matches the elegance of its arguments with the passion of its politics. Here we have an alternative economic blueprint for our time, a shining antidote to the crude bestiality of a fading and failing Trumpian regime. The aim is to build a socialism of and for the people, a socialism that meets all our reasonable wants needs and desires with the minimum of effort. We can, the authors claim, for the first time in our history, \"combine egalitarianism in distribution and democracy in production with the abundance of high-tech modernity.\" This is a book to \"pry open our imaginations and put the biggest questions of politics back on the table.\" Let the counterattack to all that is obnoxious in our present circumstances begin.\" --David Harvey, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eT\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Blueprint\u003c\/i\u003e does something rare in left political writing: it takes the question of how socialism might actually work seriously enough to venture an answer. Beggs, Burgis, and Sunkara move past critique and gesture to sketch a workable blueprint -- including worker-governed firms, democratic macroeconomic management, and fully funded, non-commodified health care, education, housing, care work, banking, and pensions -- that could function at scale in a recognizable economy. The argument is rigorous but not airless and is honest about the tradeoffs involved - and how difficult it will be to reach even this near horizon. A genuinely useful book for how to exit the current labyrinth.\" --Greg Grandin, author of \u003ci\u003eAmerica, América\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\"Nothing is more urgently needed in our troubled world than a blueprint for socializing capital, democratizing workplaces, restoring the commons, decommodifying basic goods and harnessing markets to society's needs. This book has arrived with perfect timing.\" --Yanis Varoufakis, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism-contributors-varoufakis-yanis-author\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eTechnofeudalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Authors:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBhaskar Sunkara\u003c\/strong\u003e is the president of The Nation magazine, founder and editorial director of \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e. Sunkara is a Guardian US columnist who has published more than two hundred articles and essays about politics in outlets like the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation, \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Beggs\u003c\/strong\u003e is senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of macroeconomic and monetary thinking and policy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBen Burgis\u003c\/strong\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eJacobin\u003c\/i\u003e columnist, an adjunct philosophy professor at Rutgers University, and the host of the YouTube show and podcast \u003ci\u003eGive Them An Argument\u003c\/i\u003e. He's the author of several books, most recently \u003ci\u003eChristopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54078298751259,"sku":"Blueprint - How Socialism","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/getimage_6b5fc005-5452-4cb6-bf53-bcb6bb5fef23.jpg?v=1791377471","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-blueprint-how-socialism-can-work-in-the-real-world","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}