WMU Ethics Center Lecture: Is Capitalism the Best We Can Do?

In this lecture, WMU alum Ben Burgis will lay out the ethical and economic arguments for a socialism worthy of the 21st century. This is a socialism that has learned the lessons of the failures of both capitalism and Soviet-style central planning. In this more just but also efficient system, workers control every lever of production, and competitive markets and state planning coexist side by side.

Ben Burgis is a philosopher, columnist for Jacobin, and host of the podcast Give Them an Argument.

Advance copies of Ben's forthcoming book, The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World (with Mike Beggs and Bhaskar Sunkara), will be available for purchase.