Freiheit statt Kapitalismus
AuthorSahra Wagenknecht
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Subjecteconomic interventionism
PublisherEichborn Verlag
Publication date
2011
Pages365
ISBN9783821865461

Freiheit statt Kapitalismus. Wie wir zu mehr Arbeit, Innovation und Gerechtigkeit kommen (lit. 'Freedom instead of capitalism: How we will achieve more work, innovation, and justice') is a 2011 book by the German politician Sahra Wagenknecht.

Summary

Sahra Wagenknecht criticises capitalism and promotes economic interventionism as a way to increase social welfare and avoid that the economy becomes controlled by unproductive self-interests.[1][2] Wagenknecht calls the system she promotes "creative socialism" and defines it as "market economy without capitalism and socialism without a planned economy".[3]

Publication

The book was published in 2011 by Eichborn Verlag.[2] A second expanded edition was published by Campus-Verlag on 30 April 2012 with the new subtitle Über vergessene Ideale, die Eurokrise und unsere Zukunft (lit. 'On forgotten ideals, the Euro crisis, and our future').[4]

References

  1. ↑ Meyer, Wilhelm (2012). "Marx reloaded. Anmerkungen zu dem Buch von Sahra Wagenknecht: Freiheit statt Kapitalismus". ORDO (in German). 63 (1): 504–513. doi:10.1515/ordo-2012-0140.
  2. 1 2 Schweizer, Stefan (14 November 2011). "Freiheit statt Kapitalismus oder Freiheit des Kapitalismus?". literaturkritik.de (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Orzessek, Arno (12 May 2011). "Von Umsturzgeschrei keine Spur" (in German). Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  4. ↑ Wagenknecht, Sahra (30 April 2012). "Vom Tod europäischer Werte". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
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