Crisis of Socialism or Crisis of the state

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ID3832773
AuthorsSimon Clarke (0000-0001-7034-8318, corresponding author)
Year1990
Volume14
Issue3
Pages19-29
Publication date1990-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCapital & Class (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/030981689004200102
OpenAlexW2061290270
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The collapse of the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe has been met with dumbfound silence by much of the left. This is ironic, because the harshest critics of state socialism have long been found on the left. Perhaps the main source of dismay has been that we had always held a naive hope that the overthrow of state socialism would be based on a mass popular movement calling for `true socialism'. However, this view was not based on any serious thought about how such a true socialist movement would develop, the lack of a serious analysis of state socialism reflecting the ambivalence of much of the left towards the state socialist regimes. The fact that the overthrow of state socialism has been dominated by a call for the restoration of capitalism has shocked us all, even if in retrospect it does not surprise us

Aesthetics · Capitalism · Communism · Left-wing politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Silence · Socialism · Sociology · State capitalism · State socialism · Surprise · Types of socialism · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Philosophy

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