Did the United States really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the free market prevailed, once and for all? In After the Fall, many of the most important Marxist scholars and journalists gather to argue that justice and equality are more important now than ever. They worry that the last ten years have brought us plenty of global capitalism but not much of the democratic freedom that the world had hoped for. The years from 1989 to 1991 did score some pretty heady victories for freedom, but After the Fall argues that there is much work to…mehr
Did the United States really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the free market prevailed, once and for all? In After the Fall, many of the most important Marxist scholars and journalists gather to argue that justice and equality are more important now than ever. They worry that the last ten years have brought us plenty of global capitalism but not much of the democratic freedom that the world had hoped for. The years from 1989 to 1991 did score some pretty heady victories for freedom, but After the Fall argues that there is much work to be done in detaching the best parts of Marxism from the fallen carcass of Communism.
George Katsiaficas is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts and editor of the journal New PoliticalScience. He is also the co-editor of Liberation, Imagination, and the Black Panther Party (Routledge, 2000).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction by George Katsiaficas I. Historical Interventions Chapter One: 1989 Revisited, Daniel Singer Chapter Two: How We Ended the Cold War, John Tirmane II. Analytical Accounts Chapter Three: 1989: Continuation of 1968, Giovanni Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein Chapter Four: The Road to Consumption, Boris Kagarlitsky III. Retrospective Views Chapter Five: Germany: A Decade of Hope and Despair, Hanna Behrend Chapter Six: China: Ten Years After the Tiananmen Crackdown, Ngo Vihn Long Chapter Seven: How Adjaria Did Not Become Another Bosnia. Historical Determination, Human Agency, And Accident In The Study Of Nationalist Conflict, Georgi M. Derluguian IV. Ethical Imperatives Chapter Eight: Of Means and Ends: 1989 as Ethico-Political Imperative, Manfred B. Steger Chapter Nine: The Sickness Unto Death: International Communism Before the Deluge, Stephen Eric Bronner V. Political Responses Chapter Ten: Rollback: The Aftermath of the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti Chapter Eleven: Cold War Triumphalism: A Reply to John Gaddis, Irene Gendzier VI. The Future of Socialism After Communism Chapter Twelve: Transcending Pessism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Chapter Thirteen: Postcommunist Democratic Socialism, Nancy Fraser Contributors Index
Introduction by George Katsiaficas I. Historical Interventions Chapter One: 1989 Revisited, Daniel Singer Chapter Two: How We Ended the Cold War, John Tirmane II. Analytical Accounts Chapter Three: 1989: Continuation of 1968, Giovanni Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein Chapter Four: The Road to Consumption, Boris Kagarlitsky III. Retrospective Views Chapter Five: Germany: A Decade of Hope and Despair, Hanna Behrend Chapter Six: China: Ten Years After the Tiananmen Crackdown, Ngo Vihn Long Chapter Seven: How Adjaria Did Not Become Another Bosnia. Historical Determination, Human Agency, And Accident In The Study Of Nationalist Conflict, Georgi M. Derluguian IV. Ethical Imperatives Chapter Eight: Of Means and Ends: 1989 as Ethico-Political Imperative, Manfred B. Steger Chapter Nine: The Sickness Unto Death: International Communism Before the Deluge, Stephen Eric Bronner V. Political Responses Chapter Ten: Rollback: The Aftermath of the Overthrow of Communism, Michael Parenti Chapter Eleven: Cold War Triumphalism: A Reply to John Gaddis, Irene Gendzier VI. The Future of Socialism After Communism Chapter Twelve: Transcending Pessism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Chapter Thirteen: Postcommunist Democratic Socialism, Nancy Fraser Contributors Index
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