The best, most insightful and most lively work on socialism to appear in a long time. Its unique approach gives readers a chance to renew the future-vision that once, long ago, put Edward Bellamy’s LOOKING BACKWARD onto the all-time best sellers’ list and even converted Eugene Debs. This book is bound to have a big impact on the way we view our country. - -Paul Buhle, author of MARXISM IN THE UNITED STATES

The death of capitalism, sooner rather than later, is a certainty. Yet, scenarios for transition to socialism, the only system that can save humanity from the accumulated contradictions of its past, are both scarce and often so generalized as to be useless to those locked in today’s desperate struggles. How does the great human constellation make the epochal break, from our particular spaces in the here and now? In answering this question, socialists must apply universal principles to a whole world of particularities, starting with the movements in which they are directly engaged. Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA has gathered under one cover some of the most gifted thinkers and activists of the American Left, men and women for whom socialism is the compass that points to radical transformation-a world put on new footing, snatched back from the precipice. - —Glen Ford, executive editor, Black Agenda Report

Throughout history, those who have sought radical change have always had to first discredit the ideas used to prop up ruling elites and construct alternative ideas for society. The articulation of a viable socialism as an alternative to corporate tyranny is, for me, paramount. Once ideas shift for a large portion of a population, once the vision of a new society grips the popular imagination, the old regime is finished. That is why Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA is an important contribution in promoting revolutionary ferment and consciousness. - —Chris Hedges, author of DEATH OF THE LIBERAL CLASS

Reduced to a dirty word in the lexicon of pundits and out-of-touch politicians, socialism is being reclaimed by a new generation and is on the verge of assuming its rightful place in America. Part history, part analysis, part call to action, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, is a roadmap for anyone troubled by the social, political and economic inequities plaguing this country and the world. Far-seeing in design, this primer of brave and impassioned essays by luminaries in the fields of journalism, law, and social justice is sustenance for an emergent movement. - —Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

Part history, part analysis, part call to action, Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA, is a roadmap for anyone troubled by the social, political and economic inequities plaguing this country and the world. - —Heidi Boghosian, Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild

IMAGINE: LIVING IN A SOCIALIST USA is the book so many of us have been waiting for. What are the possibilities inherent in Socialism? What is it? What can it mean to humanity’s future? What would it look like in the U.S.A.? These are the questions raised in this exquisitely timely book. We must profoundly change the way we live, or we will not survive. A Socialism that we make ourselves could be the answer. - Alice Walker

IMAGINE: LIVING IN A SOCIALIST USA is the book so many of us have been waiting for. ...exquisitely timely... We must profoundly change the way we live, or we will not survive. - Alice Walker