A Participatory Economy

The responsibility of intellectuals includes not only “a ruthless criticism of all things existing” (Marx), which is what most people on the left are usually occupied with, but also the imagination of alternatives. Not many writers have made lasting contributions to this task: Edward Bellamy, William Morris, H.G. Wells, Ernest Callenbach, a few others, depending on one’s taste in utopias. Actually, it’s rare these days to have any taste at all for utopias. On the contr...