Re-Reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4445102
AutoresTony Fluxman (Rhodes University), Peter Vales (0000-0003-0805-9325, Rhodes University), Vale Peter (0000-0003-3186-5931, Rhodes University)
Ano2004
Volume18
Fascículo2
Páginas173-188
Data de publicação2004-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Relations (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0047-1178 • E-ISSN: 1741-2862
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0047117804042671
OpenAlexW2055828558
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11
Referências citadas7

Using the writings of the assassinated South African political philosopher Rick Turner, this article provides a critique of South Africa ten years after the end of apartheid. Influenced by both Western Marxism and utopian thinking, Turner developed a model of democratic socialism which offered a vision of a 'new South Africa'. This was countered by the ideology of the market and, later, by the force of the 'end of history' thesis. The article argues that inequalities continue in South Africa because the promise of Western Marxism was squeezed out by the convergence of communist political ideology and capitalist modernization

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