it's geared toward these, in particular teens, who've simply get involved politically, in addition to these engaged in unmarried factor hobbies, having come upon the observe ‘socialism’ and wish to understand extra approximately it. it isn't a close textual content booklet at the topic. the writer was once a full-time alternate union legitimate so much of his operating lifestyles (he is now retired) and used to be additionally concerned politically at the left, so is ready to write with a few event and information at the subject.
The e-book opens with an try and describe capitalism because it is now, then offers with the elemental rules of socialism. It then takes the reader extra deeply into the politics and economics of socialism from a Marxist viewpoint. the remainder chapters care for a number of social difficulties of this present day, together with the transforming into hole among wealthy and bad and among wealthy and terrible countries, feminism, racism, democracy, freedom and liberty less than socialism, and so on. It considers the line to socialism within the gentle of prior makes an attempt to establish socialist regimes, e.g. the Paris Commune of 1870-71 and the Russian Revolution from 1917 to the cave in of the Soviet procedure in 1989-91.
It has a bankruptcy at the background of the assumption of socialism-communism in Britain and Europe. It additionally bargains with the current and the way forward for the different new Latin American left-wing regimes and concludes with a dialogue of the placement in Britain this day within the gentle of the ‘New’ Labour government’s swing to the perfect. It arrives at a end that the way forward for socialism in Britain – if it has a destiny in any respect – lies with usual humans and their conflict for political and fiscal democracy, peace, liberty and justice.