Enduring Socialism
Author | : Harry G. West |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2008-11-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 1845458729 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781845458720 |
Rating | : 4/5 (720 Downloads) |
Download or read book Enduring Socialism written by Harry G. West and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.