The Future We Want: Radical Ideas for the New Century

A stirring blueprint for American equality, from the "breakout stars" (The ny Times) of the younger new left

Democrat, Republican -- the checklist of presidential applicants confirms that company is continuing pretty well as traditional. The destiny We Want proposes anything varied. In a pointy, rousing collective manifesto, ten younger cultural and political critics dismantle the standard liberal strategies to America's ills and suggest a realistic alternative.

What might finance appear like with no Wall road? Or the place of work with accountability shared by way of the total team? From a crusade to restrict paintings hours, to a software for complete employment, to proposals for a brand new feminism, The destiny We Want has the braveness to consider possible choices which are either utopian and possible.

Brilliantly transparent and provocative, The destiny We Want -- edited through Jacobin journal founder Bhaskar Sunkara and the Nation's Sarah Leonard -- harnesses the strength and creativity of an offended new release and declares the coming of a brand new political left that not just protests yet plans.

Introduction / Sarah Leonard --
Working for the Weekend / Chris Maisano --
Small now not appealing / Tim Barker --
The purple and the Black / Seth Ackerman --
How to Make Black Lives quite, really topic / Jesse A. Myerson and Mychal Denzel Smith --
Sex type / Sarah Leonard --
Life as schooling / Megan Erickson --
A criminal Revolution / Raven Rakia --
After homosexual Marriage / Kate Redburn --
The medication for undesirable technological know-how / Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones --
The eco-friendly and the purple / Alyssa Battistoni --
Laying the Terrain / Peter Frase and Bhaskar Sunkara.

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Each of the new regional and bilateral partnerships reflects this business reality. Technical barriers and product standards, logistics, services sectors, intellectual property rights, competition policy, and environmental and labor standards have become as important a part of the private sector environment as trade policy itself. These “behind-the-border” issues also are featured prominently on the Doha Development Agenda. The thrust is to place trade policy within a broader framework of development and poverty reduction.

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