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Why not socialism

Paperback • 2009

Why not socialism

By Burroughs Edgar

14 Ratings • 4.6 of 5

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<p>Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.</p><br><p> There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all behave like socialists. On a camping trip, for example, campers wouldn't dream of charging each other to use a soccer ball or for fish that they happened to catch. Campers do not give merely to g...Show more

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