Socialism & Its Critics

John Dunn’s peculiar book purports to address two problems. The first is how to explain the attraction of socialism in advanced capitalist nations and the second whether socialism is “still a rational and civilizing form of political enterprise in these countries.” The answer to the first is, as Dunn admits, not very original. The more clearly we come to see the nature of capitalist ownership, he argues, the less plausible it seems as a claim to material goods. And as the ec...