Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Carl - GoodreadsSurprisingly tedious for such a short book, but worth reading if only for part IV's presentation of some cool possible designs for a socialist society. Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Pavol - GoodreadsWeak sauce. Only for true believers and similarly afflicted - this booklet would not convince anyone who was not already inclined to agree. Far from Cohen's best. Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Collin - GoodreadsA weak, vague, completely ineffective presentation of what a socialist economic system might look like; nearly completely lacking of any cogent, logical arguments. Not only does Cohen fail to define ... Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Calvin - GoodreadsBest quote ever: "I'd rather have my socialism in the warmth of All Souls College than in the wet of the Catskills, and I love modern plumbing." (pp. 10) Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Alex - GoodreadsA really short, enjoyable book. It's pretty much a journal article in a nice hardcover book. Like a lot of Cohen stuff, it works better as a critique than a construction of an alternative. Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Dan Arel - GoodreadsShort and perfect. I had no real doubts that I was a socialist before picking up this book, but if I had ever thought "am I really a socialist? is that the political movement thats right for me? is my ... Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Nativeabuse - GoodreadsCool little booklet about socialism, he demonstrates his ideas with an analogy to a camping trip that works really well. I'll probably find myself repeating the argument he puts forth here to people ... Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Patrick - GoodreadsAn excellent little book, short enough to be read in a single sitting. It's almost a manifesto really, on how socialist values are really humanist values---egalitarian values---and how socialism is ... Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Tobias - GoodreadsMore of a pamphlet than a book, Cohen considers whether socialism is (a) desirable and (b) feasible. On the former, his argument is based a belief in the virtue of human relationships that rest on ... Read full review
Review: Why Not Socialism?
User Review - Alex L - GoodreadsHmmm why not? Because it isn't applicable in today's society. Our selfishness is the reason it can't exist! This book was a fun little read. Not too bad if you ask me :D Read full review
