A review by frankied1
Twenty-First Century Socialism by Jeremy Gilbert

3.0

Whilst I thought this book offered interesting insights into what a more modern model of socialism could be made of, this book was seriously lacking in explaining how this large transfer of power to the people would occur. Gilbert seems incredibly naive in bashing attempts at crushing US imperialism and building socialist models, such as in the DPRK, and fails to at all recognise the force and violence needed to overcome such violent systems. He seems to not comprehend that factory owners won't simply hand the keys over to the workers because they proposed a nice idea, and is in denial about the fact that socialism is an overwhelming system that requires a revolution of brute force.