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"Exciting and unique, especially for students, activists, and scholars. An important challenge to the neoliberal agenda." -Immanuel Ness, Editor, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions. The document that best captured this vision was the Freedom Budget for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, To Achieve Freedom from Want published by the A. Philip Randolph Institute and endorsed by a virtual 'who's who' of U.S. left liberalism and radicalism. Now, two of today's leading socialist thinkers return to the Freedom Budget and its program for economic justice. Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates explain the origins of the Freedom Budget, how it sought to achieve "freedom from want" for all people, and how it might be reimagined for our current m
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- Author
- Paul Le Blanc; Michael D. Yates
- Publisher
- New York: Monthly Review Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781583673607
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, History, Economics
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