Why Not Socialism?

Cohen really is a true believer. At least on a small scale, he really does make good case for socialism. Where it breaks down is really anything applied to a larger scale without a dispute mechanism (i.e. markets). I found his objection to market socialism in particular more telling than objectionable as he seems to really want all participants in a socialist system to be true believers too. At that point, I think he's completely lost the plot as we're now dealing with ideologues as the reason why the system works rather than a self-correcting feature of the system itself (i.e. even capitalism would work if it was “true” capitalism and not corrupted by cronyism and regulatory capture, etc.).

This is really just a long form essay. Hardly a book but the algorithm recommended it so here it is, padding the list. It's a rather un-compelling metaphor for why being relentlessly greedy is actually bad. I was unimpressed. I guess this might be useful to some extreme reactionaries? But even then, it's still a 92-page book that they sure ain't gonna read. Show em the Einstein socialism article instead.

The sentences, while not only too long, but also too fond of commas, such like this, struggle to reach their, also kind of convoluted, conclusions.

The whole book is written like this. Thanks the stars it's only 83 pages and the page size is small while the font size is relatively big. An average of 5 sentences fit on a single page.

Content, when you actually find it between all the commas, itself is well-researched and the sources invite further reading.