Introduction
Part 1 Why Do You Ask?
1. Ghost stories
2. Dig deeper
Part 2 Capitalism
3. Welcome to the jungle
4. Freedom isn’t free Tyranny: Exploitation & Oppression Anarchy:
Competition and Crisis
5. Who’s in charge?
Part 3 Socialism
6. Imagine
7. The working class
8. Revolution
9. What’s in a name?
Part 4 Further Questions
10. Will socialism be boring?
11. Is socialism a religion?
12. Five Tips For Being an Effective and Relatively Sane Socialist
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Danny Katch is an activist and humorist often accused of not knowing the difference. He writes a regular column for Socialist Worker.org, where he is often known as Danny Lucia, the name of his former jailer in Siberia.
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