21st-CENTURY SOCIALISM AND THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF SUSTAINABILITY
<p class="first" id="d337768e59">Socialism's survival strategy for the 21st century must place the highest priority on achieving sustainability. Sustainable socialism has four aspects: political, economic, cultural, and environmental. The charac...
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| description | <p class="first" id="d337768e59">Socialism's survival strategy for the 21st century must place the highest priority
on achieving sustainability. Sustainable socialism has four aspects: political, economic,
cultural, and environmental. The characteristics of the four components are defined
and the relationship between socialism and sustainability is explored. It is argued
that five successful policies should be followed to achieve sustainable socialism.
Threats to the five successful policies, and how to deal with them, are discussed.
The relationship between sustainable socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat
is also explored. Since the concept of the four components of sustainability complements
Marx's enumeration of the Four Alls, it is clear that sustainable socialism and proletarian
dictatorship are compatible. Sustainable socialism must be constructed on the basis
of proletarian democracy guided by a communist party that works diligently to preserve
the socialist orientation of development while resisting calls for the adoption of
bourgeois democracy and private capitalism.
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| spelling | doaj.art-dcb74efee3fe49bdaaa71d9105a409622023-05-03T14:03:38ZengPluto JournalsWorld Review of Political Economy2042-891X2042-89282010-06-011229030410.2307/4194292121st-CENTURY SOCIALISM AND THE FOUR COMPONENTS OF SUSTAINABILITYDavid S. Pena<p class="first" id="d337768e59">Socialism's survival strategy for the 21st century must place the highest priority on achieving sustainability. Sustainable socialism has four aspects: political, economic, cultural, and environmental. The characteristics of the four components are defined and the relationship between socialism and sustainability is explored. It is argued that five successful policies should be followed to achieve sustainable socialism. Threats to the five successful policies, and how to deal with them, are discussed. The relationship between sustainable socialism and the dictatorship of the proletariat is also explored. Since the concept of the four components of sustainability complements Marx's enumeration of the Four Alls, it is clear that sustainable socialism and proletarian dictatorship are compatible. Sustainable socialism must be constructed on the basis of proletarian democracy guided by a communist party that works diligently to preserve the socialist orientation of development while resisting calls for the adoption of bourgeois democracy and private capitalism. </p>https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.2307/41942921 |
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