The spiral of capitalism and socialism toward global democracy

This book is about the decline of state socialism and the future of the world-system. Our main point is that, though the world "socialism" is widely held in disdain in the current discourse about the world's past and its future, the idea of socialism as collective rationality and popular democracy is far from dead. Indeed, we argue that this idea is necessary if the human species is to survive and progress. It may emerge under a new name and surely will take on new forms. We content that the new form must be global, and call it "global democracy".