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Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazineThe remarkable run of self-proclaimed democratic socialist Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has promptedfor the first time in decades and to the shock of manya national conversation about socialism. A New York Times poll in late November found that a majority of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism, and in New Hampshire in February, more than half of Democratic voters under 35 told the Boston Globe they call themselves socialists. Its unclear exactly what socialism means to this generation, but couple with the ascendancy of longtime leftwinger Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party in the UK, its clear theres a historic, generational shift underway.This book steps into this moment to offer a clear, accessible, informative, and irreverent guide to socialism for the uninitiated. Written by young writers from the dynamic magazine Jacobin, alongside several distinguished scholars, The ABCs of Socialism answers basic questions, including ones that many want to know but might be afraid to ask (Doesnt socialism always end up in dictatorship?, Will socialists take my Kenny Loggins records?). Disarming and pitched to a general readership without sacrificing intellectual depth, this will be the best introduction an idea whose time seems to have come again

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The ABCs of Socialism

The ABCs of Socialism was produced as a
collaboration between Verso Books and Jacobin
magazine, which is released online and
quarterly in print to over 15,000 subscribers.

If youre interested in the ideas in this book, join
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The ABCs
of Socialism
EDITED BY
Bhaskar Sunkara
ILLUSTRATED BY
Phil Wrigglesworth

First published by Verso 2016

Jacobin Foundation Ltd.

All rights reserved

The moral rights of the authors have been asserted

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ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-726-4 (PB)

ISBN-13: 978-1-78478-727-1 (US EBK)

ISBN-13: 978-1-78663-018-6 (UK EBK)

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Typeset in Antwerp by A2-Type

Printed in the US by Sheridan Press

Among hundreds of others, this book was
made possible by the generosity of:

Saki Bailey

Danny Bates

John Erganian

Marshall Mayer

David Mehan

Mark Dochartaigh

Brian Skiffington

Frederick Sperounis

Francis Tseng

Nathan Zimmerman

Special thanks to the Anita L. Mishler

Education Fund ()

About the Authors

Nicole Aschoff is the managing editor at Jacobin and the author of The New Prophets of Capital.

Alyssa Battistoni is an editor at Jacobin and a PhD student in political science at Yale University.

Jonah Birch is a graduate student in sociology at New York University and a contributing editor at Jacobin.

Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. His latest book is Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital.

Danny Katch is a contributor to Socialist Worker and the author of Socialism Seriously.

Chris Maisano is a contributing editor at Jacobin and a union staffer in New York.

Nivedita Majumdar is an associate professor of English at John Jay College. She is the secretary of the Professional Staff Congress, the CUNY faculty and staff union.

Michael A. McCarthy is an assistant professor of sociology at Marquette University.

Joseph M. Schwartz is the national vice-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and professor of political science at Temple University.

Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor in Princeton Universitys Center for African American Studies and the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation.

Adaner Usmani is a graduate student at New York University and on the board of New Politics.

Erik Olin Wright is a professor of sociology at the University of WisconsinMadison. His latest book is Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy.

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A little more than a century ago, socialism might not have been a mass force in American politics, but it seemed destined to become one.

In 1912, the Socialist Party won almost a million votes in the presidential election, had a membership of 120,000, and elected more than a thousand socialists to office. Mayors of cities like Berkeley, Flint, Milwaukee, and Schenectady were all socialists. So was a congressman, Victor Berger, and dozens of state officials.

That year, Oklahoma alone was home to eleven socialist weeklies. And in clusters of the countryfrom the Jewish enclaves of the Lower East Side to the mining towns of the Westthe cooperative commonwealth was the dream to which all other political appeals were compared.

That commonwealth never came into being, and the decades that followed would be less kind to the Left. There were still upsurges and victories, of course, and socialists acquitted themselves well, helping build campaigns against oppression and exploitation. But as we entered the twenty-first century, socialism in the United States felt less like a live current and more like a dying piece of American history.

With the emergence of the Bernie Sanders campaign and new movements for democracy and freedom, this may be beginning to change. The events of this year all point to the emergence of Sanders Democrats, a group that is disproportionately young and calling for massive redistributions of wealth and power. Sanders is only the beginning; this force will continue struggling for a different sort of politics.

Over the past six months, weve had more conversations about socialism with friends and strangers alike than in the last six years. Jacobins subscriber rolls have increased by hundreds every week, and our inbox is flooded with emails asking basic definitional questions about socialism.

We dont have all the answers, but this book was made to help tackle some of them. The ABCs of Socialism will be useful for years to comenot only as a primer for future generations of radicals, but also as an artifact of a time when the socialist left was once again filled with promise. How this story ends is up to us.

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Chris Maisano

If you spend much time on social media, youve probably seen the memes purporting to show just how socialist the United States already is by listing a bunch of government programs, services, and agencies. There are many variations on the theme, but my favorite one lists no less than fifty-five ostensibly socialist programs whose only commonality is that Uncle Sam carries them all out.

Some directly serve social needs and involve some measure of income redistribution (public libraries, welfare, the wic program, Social Security, food stamps). Some seem thrown in for no good reason at all (Amber Alerts? The White House?). Others are basic operational activities that any modern government, regardless of its ideological orientation, would carry out (the census, fire departments, garbage and snow removal, sewers, street lighting). And still others involve the vast apparatus of coercion and force (police departments, the FBI, the CIA, the military, courts, prisons, and jails).

For all of Bernie Sanderss virtues, his campaign for president has only thickened the fog of ideological confusion. At one campaign stop last year, he endorsed the thinking behind the most simplistic of these memes: When you go to your public library, when you call your fire department or the police department, what do you think youre calling? These are socialist institutions. By that logic any sort of collective project funded by tax dollars and accomplished through government action is socialism.

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