The Dialectic of Change - Couverture souple

Kagarlitsky, Boris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860919730 ISBN 13 : 9780860919735

Editeur : Verso Books, 1990

Synopsis

In this follow-up to his acclaimed The Thinking Reed, Boris Kagarlistky presents an incisive analysis of the interplay between reform and revolution in Western and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. At once theoretical and polemical, the book attempts to develop a dialogue between the emergent Soviet Left - of which he is a key figure - and radical forces in the West, in pursuit of a coherent and consistent strategy of change.

The first part of Kagarlitsky's endeavour takes us from a re-examination of the Marxist classics - via the dogmatism of the Second International, and the more fertile ideas of Jaurès, Luxemburg and Gramsci - to the actual practice of postwar socialist governments in Western Europe. He shows how these governments, influenced by Keynesian and Galbraithian technocratic reformism, have been unable to transcend the confines imposed by capitalism and develop alternative working-class strategies - eventually succumbing to the monetarist counter-offensive.

In a counterpoint to the Western experience Kagarlitsky then turns his attention to the failures of technocratic reformism in Eastern Europe. He reviews the crucial lessons of the emergence of Solidarity in Poland, and the Brezhnev period of 'stability', corruption and stagnation, against the backdrop of profound social changes - changes which render the question of Gorbachev's democratization and reform vital for the future of both the Soviet Union and the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Boris Kagarlitsky is the author of The Thinking Reed, The Dialectic of Hope, and The Mirage of Modernisation. He has been arrested twice for his activism, once in 1982 under Brezhnev, and in 1993 under Yeltsin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860919730
• ISBN 13: 9780860919735
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 404
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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