Title A freedom budget for all Americans : recapturing the promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the struggle for economic justice today / Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates

Published New York : Monthly Review Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) Contents Introduction -- The battle for civil rights -- Appendix : Marxist perspectives -- For jobs and freedom -- A freedom budget for all Americans -- The political economy of the freedom budget -- Defeat of the freedom budget -- The U.S. political economy from the freedom budget to the present -- Poverty and its attendant evils today -- Toward a new freedom budget Summary While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked today. That vision sought economic justice for every person in the United States, regardless of race. It favored production for social use instead of profit; social ownership; and democratic control over major economic decisions. The document that best captured this vision was the a Freedom Budget for All Americans: Budgeting Our Resources, 1966-1975, a To Achieve Freedom from Wanta published by the A. Philip Randolph Institute and endorsed by a virtual OCywhoOCOs whoOCO of U.S. left liberalism and radicalism. a Now, two of todayOCOs leading socialist thinkers return to the Freedom Budget and its program for economic justice. Paul Le Blanc and Michael D. Yates explain the origins of the Freedom Budget, how it sought to achieve OC freedom from wantOCO for all people, and how it might be reimagined for our current moment. Combining historical perspective with clear-sighted economic proposals, the authors make a concrete case for reviving the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement and building the society of economic security and democratic control envisioned by the movementOCOs leadersOCoa struggle that continues to this day." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-297) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Economic security -- United States -- History Poverty -- Government policy -- United States Civil rights -- United States -- History Equality -- United States -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights. Civil rights Economic policy Economic security Equality Poverty -- Government policy Social policy SUBJECT United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001001961 United States -- Social policy -- 20th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Yates, Michael, 1946- author. LC no. 2013021619 ISBN 9781583673638 1583673636

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