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The Contradictions Of Real Socialism
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Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-08
The Contradictions Of Real Socialism written by Michael A. Lebowitz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with Political Science categories.
What was “real socialism”—the term which originated in twentieth-century socialist societies for the purpose of distinguishing them from abstract, theoretical socialism? In this volume, Michael A. Lebowitz considers the nature, tendencies, and contradictions of those societies. Beginning with the constant presence of shortages within “real socialism,” Lebowitz searches for the inner relations which generate these patterns. He finds these, in particular, in what he calls “vanguard relations of production,” a relation which takes the apparent form of a social contract where workers obtain benefits not available to their counterparts in capitalism but lack the power to decide within the workplace and society. While these societies were able to claim major achievements in areas from health care to education to popular culture, the separation of thinking and doing prevented workers from developing their capacities as fully developed human beings. The relationship within “real socialism” between the vanguard as conductor and a conducted working class, however, did not only lead to the deformation of workers and those elements necessary for the building of socialism; it also created the conditions in which enterprise managers emerged as an incipient capitalist class, which was an immediate source of the crises of “real socialism.” As he argued in The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, Lebowitz stresses the necessity to go beyond the hierarchy inherent in the relation of conductor and conducted (and beyond the “vanguard Marxism” which supports this) to create the conditions in which people can transform themselves through their conscious cooperation and practice—i.e., a society of free and associated producers.
Authoritarian Collectivism And Real Socialism
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Author : Jose Mauricio Domingues
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2022-01-11
Authoritarian Collectivism And Real Socialism written by Jose Mauricio Domingues and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-11 with Political Science categories.
The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical methodology. It concentrates on the principles of ‘real socialism’ in its golden age but also assesses its present embrace of capitalism.
Marxism And Really Existing Socialism
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Author : A. Nove
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2013-09-27
Marxism And Really Existing Socialism written by A. Nove and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-27 with Business & Economics categories.
The late Alec Nove explores the relationship between Marxist ideas and the Soviet reality and presents a methodology for understanding Soviet type societies.
Power And Civil Society
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Author : Leszek Nowak
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1991-04-30
Power And Civil Society written by Leszek Nowak and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-04-30 with Political Science categories.
The seeds of this volume were contained in a series of lectures delivered by Leszak Nowak to his co-interned activists of Solidarity in a Polish prison in 1982. From the stance of a political philosopher, Nowak suggests statements about power; as a social theorist, he proposes a systematization of hypotheses into idealized models of increasing realism. Most books on socialism are based on either radical or conservative ideologies; Power and Civil Society, however begins with radical assumptions but reaches rather conservative conclusions. Nowak's discussion of the three independent main social divisions--owners/producers, rulers/ruled, and priests or mass-culture-media/believers--reveals the separation of these divisions in class societies and their integration into a triple class of rulers-owners-priests in real-socialism societies. Nowak contends that triple-class rulers wrest control of political power from both owner and priest classes and undergo regularities of political power in its pure form. The thrust of the book is an elaboration of a proposal of the general theory of political power that confronts it with its classic area of application--the history of the Soviet Union--by offering a series of models beginning with the most abstract. Each subsequent model presents a more complicated network of interconnections that characterize the phenomenon of political power. The sixteen-chapter volume is structured into five major divisions that begin with a discussion of some basic assumptions on the nature of power and the non-Christian model of man. Part Two considers some elementary models of power by focusing on idealizing conditions, revolution, the organization of civil society, and citizens' utopia. Global Models of Power, Part Three, treats the mechanism of aggression, the structure and development of an empire, and a block of countries. Special models of power are surveyed in Part Four. The book concludes with an attempt to confront the modeling construction with the history of the socialist world both at the level of the relations between rulers and ruled, political institutions, political doctrines, and international relations within the Soviet empire. Here Nowak seeks to locate both those trends which can be approximately explained by a certain model of the presented hierarchy and those which can not. Six appendixes deal with such phenomena as The Conception of Class Loop and the Rotating Elites Theory, Social Consciousness as a Hypostasis, and more. This book will be excellent reading for Sovietologists, Political Theorists, Social Philosophers, and Philosophers of History.
How Life Writes The Book
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Author : Thomas Lahusen
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
How Life Writes The Book written by Thomas Lahusen and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with History categories.
'A gripping, unsettling, and highly original book that turns the making of a Soviet socialist-realist classic—Azhaev's Far from Moscow—into a detective story, and sheds as strange and ambiguous a light on the Stalin era, from gulag to Writers'Union, as one could hope for. Lahusen is a disarmingly low-key scholarly virtuoso who performs simultaneously as an archive-based historian, an interpreter of texts (including Azhaev's own self-organized archive), and a gently relentless biographer whose stalking of his prey is reminiscent of Nabokov. The final chilling paragraph typically economical and understated, is a reminder that the author/investigator, too, is a collaborator in the multiple reworkings of Azhaev's text, and of his life, that How Life Writes the Book has so finely analyzed.'—Sheila Fitzpatrick, University of Chicago 'This is a wonderfully original work: a history of a book, a literary analysis of an age, a montage of a life. Lahusen writes with a postmodern sensibility but without the postmodernist jargon.'—Yuri Slezkine, University of California, Berkeley 'Thomas Lahusen has written an imaginative and archivally grounded book that presents the most fascinating picture to date of the literary process that produced canonical works of Socialist Realism and the people who wrote them. How Life Writes the Book is alternatingly chilling and funny as it demonstrates the interpenetration of literary institutions, massive construction projects and the Soviet system of prison camps and slave labor. With this study, as with his earlier Intimacy and Terror, Lahusen continues his own project of revolutionizing our understanding of the Soviet subject and Soviet subjectivity.'—Eric Naiman, University of California, Berkeley 'Lahusen's case study marks a new genre of inquiry into the very nature of socialist realism, a genre which became possible after archives and memory in Russia regained their voice. It shows how life is transformed into Soviet myth.'—Hans G'nther, editor of The Culture of the Stalin Period
The Collapse Of Real Socialism In Poland
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Author : Jacek Tittenbrun
language : en
Publisher: Janus Book Publishers
Release Date : 1993
The Collapse Of Real Socialism In Poland written by Jacek Tittenbrun and has been published by Janus Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Business & Economics categories.
Jacek Tittenbrun, born in 1952, is Professor of Sociology, Deputy Director of the Institute of Sociology and Head of the Economic Sociology Research Unit at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. He received his MA (with Distinction) and his PhD there. His research interests centre on the relationship between economy and society. He is the author of seven books. Among them are: Interactionism in Contemporary American Sociology, Financial Institutions and Ownership of Equity Capital; New Capitalists? Employee Pension Funds and Ownership of Equity Capital (all in Polish). His forthcoming book, co-authored with two other Polish scholars, is Ownership and Society (in English). He has published about seventy scholarly articles in professional (including Anglo-American) journals and contributions to collective volumes.
Real Socialism
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Author : Robert Blatchford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Real Socialism written by Robert Blatchford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Socialism categories.
From Bolchevism To The Ideology Of Real Socialism
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Author : Svetozar Stojanović
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
From Bolchevism To The Ideology Of Real Socialism written by Svetozar Stojanović and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Communism categories.
The Socialist Alternative
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Author : Michael A. Lebowitz
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-07
The Socialist Alternative written by Michael A. Lebowitz and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07 with Philosophy categories.
“A good society,“ Michael Lebowitz tells us, “is one that permits the full development of human potential.” In this slim, lucid, and insightful book, he argues persuasively that such a society is possible. That capitalism fails his definition of a good society is evident from even a cursory examination of its main features. What comes first in capitalism is not human development but privately accumulated profits by a tiny minority of the population. When there is a conflict between profits and human development, profits take precedence. Just ask the unemployed, those toiling at dead-end jobs, the sick and infirm, the poor, and the imprisoned. But if not capitalism, what? Lebowitz is also critical of those societies that have proclaimed their socialism, such as the former Soviet Union and China. While their systems were not capitalist and were capable of achieving some of what is necessary for the “development of human potential,” they were not “good societies.” A good society as Lebowitz defines it must be marked by three characteristics: social ownership of the means of production, social production controlled by workers, and satisfaction of communal needs and purposes. Lebowitz shows how these characteristics interact with and reinforce one another, and asks how they can be developed to the point where they occur more or less automatically—that is, become both a society’s premises and outcomes. He also offers fascinating insights into matters such as the nature of wealth, the illegitimacy of profits, the inadequacies of worker-controlled enterprises, the division of labor, and much more.
The Aftermath Of Real Existing Socialism In Eastern Europe
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Author : Jacques Hersh
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-27
The Aftermath Of Real Existing Socialism In Eastern Europe written by Jacques Hersh and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-27 with Political Science categories.
The themes in this book concern former Soviet-type societies: 1) Is the capitalist world system willing and able to absorb these newcomers or are they condemned to 'Third-worldization'? 2) Is the neoliberal advice of simultaneous political democratization and economic liberalization a viable path? 3) Is the East Asian model of authoritarianism and governed markets a better option? 4) Can the revolution of rising expectations be harnessed into a new structure of accumulation based on class polarisations? 5) Are there lessons in Chinese market-socialism? In this topical and timely collection, these questions are answered by an interdisciplinary and international team of specialists