In this week on the Waterfall course on Socialism: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism”. Robert Heilbroner (1919-2005) was the most distinguished American academic socialist of the 20th century.
In this article, written after the fall of the Soviet Union, Heilbroner argues as a social scientist that socialists must diagnose accurately the failings of socialist experiments in order to correct them. Socialism has “far surpassed capitalism in both economic malfunction and moral cruelty.” Even so, “the idea and the ideal of socialism” still exists.
The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism.
Other Waterfall courses on Capitalism, Objectivity, Money, Robotics, and more: https://www.atlassociety.org/education/waterfall.