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Alex Callinicos:

The Revenge of History

Forklarer hvorfor regimerne i Østeuropa og Sovjet brød sammen i slutningen af 1980'erne. Indeholder et spændende afsnit om, hvordan socialismen vil se ud.

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The Revenge of History is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism.

Alex Callinicos seeks to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition by arguing that socialism in this tradition can only come from below, through the selfactivity of the working class. Stalinism from this standpoint was a counterrevolution, erecting at the end of the 1920s a state capitalist regime on the ruins of the radically democratic socialism briefly achieved in October 1917. Callinicos argues that the collapse of Stalinism at the end of the 1980s is one aspect of a world-wide transition from nationally organized to globally integrated capitalism. The result is likely to be greater economic and political instability. Against this background socialism – in Marx's sense – is all the more necessary. Callinicos contends that Marx's vision of a classless communist society would be both practically feasible and profoundly democratic.

He concludes that the collapse of Stalinism should be less the moment to abandon socialism than to resume unfinished business.

Alex Callinicos teaches Politics at the University of York.

Anmeldelse af bogen i tidsskriftet International Socialisme.

Udgivet første gang: 1991

Kategori:
Den socialistiske tradition
Østeuropa
Historie og politik

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159 sider

Sprog: engelsk

Pris: 185 kr.

ISBN: 0-7456-0848-5

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