SOCIALISM: DERIVATIVES AND ALTERNATIVES: Socialism. Socialism? Socialism?!?
In: The new presence: the Prague journal of Central European affairs, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 8-9
ISSN: 1211-8303
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In: The new presence: the Prague journal of Central European affairs, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 8-9
ISSN: 1211-8303
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 127-146
ISSN: 1045-5752
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 367-376
ISSN: 0304-3754
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There are principles in the world by which everything happens, by which the world works. This applies to both natural and social phenomena. However, it happens that these principles are inverted into something completely different. It is also often the case, in order to hide the true essence, that new names for phenomena or processes that obscure things and hide the right intentions are invented. The best example of how this works in practice can be seen in the examples of totalitarianism and democracy. The principle of totalitarianism is based on an authoritarian system of government, unlimited power of the leader, aggressive expansionism and control of the state. In its original meaning, democracy (the rule of the people - the majority) is the opposite of totalitarianism. However, do we have the true rule of the people today, or is there just a new form of totalitarianism behind that phrase? Every period, including this one today, imposes some general ideas that preoccupy people and nations. One such example is the mundialist idea of organizing a "world without borders" as a whole into which individual peoples and states are immersed. A process called transition has been imposed as a by-product of globalization and a mandatory pattern for former socialist countries. Therefore, Wallerstein is right in saying that the whole world is in a situation of "a kind of global transition". A large number of papers have been written in an effort to explain these processes. One of the discourses that can explain the "global transition" is the principle of inverted socialism. Namely, if socialism is based on the idea of social justice, that is, the distribution of social wealth to as many members of society as possible, the inverted socialism operates on the principle of profit privatization, and the socialization of losses at all levels. Globally, the rich (2%) are becoming richer and the majority of the population is becoming poorer. As a result of such a process, instead of a harmonious future, as Fukuyama predicted, there is the death of the welfare state on the one hand, and the socialization of losses on the other (the best example is the world financial crisis and bank rehabilitation by the states - of course at the expense of the people). Therefore, both globally and locally, it is time for a new Marx and a new true rather than inverted socialism.
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In: Science & Society, Band 86, Heft 1, S. 66-94
The idea of combining some form of social equality with markets goes back to the very origins of socialist tradition and also underlies most of the proposals currently being presented as "alternatives" to the capitalist social order. However, taking as its axis the organic relationship between commodity circulation and capital, as revealed by Marx, it is possible to offer a critique of market socialism (choosing David Schweickart's version of Economic Democracy as a generic textual reference) to demonstrate its inconsistency as a project for social emancipation alternative to the capitalist mode of production. And this for reasons of: i) economy: due to market inefficiency in allocation, and its tendency toward social polarization; ii) politics: because markets prevent citizen self-government and block the free development of human capacities; and iii) ecology: the market is incompatible with a social metabolism that is sustainable with nature. The conclusion is that a market-based production structure is incompatible with the conscious, rational, and democratic regulation of the economy.
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In: Actuel Marx, Band 74, Heft 2, S. 131-144
ISSN: 1969-6728
Cet inédit issu du fonds d'archives Henri Lefebvre est la retranscription d'une conférence prononcée en 1959 qui porte sur l'évaluation des enjeux des luttes paysannes, mal saisis selon l'auteur. Il est augmenté d'une présentation qui insiste sur l'inscription de ce thème dans un programme précoce qui, attaché à la question de la rente foncière dans la perspective des textes de jeunesse de Marx, alimentera la réflexion lefebvrienne sur les formes sociales comme fondements de la sociologie historique de Marx. Selon Lefebvre, les travaux incessants de Marx sur la dissolution de la propriété collective au cours de l'histoire et hors du contexte européen sont à la fois inaboutis et insuffisamment compris, alors qu'ils faisaient une place plus importante au socialisme paysan.
Collection : Bibliothèque socialiste ; Collection : Bibliothèque socialiste ; Contient une table des matières
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In: The new presence: the Prague journal of Central European affairs, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 36-39
ISSN: 1211-8303
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 563-596
ISSN: 1086-3338
The immediate causes of the current crisis in socialism are the highly authoritarian and extremely hierarchical political and economic structures created by Leninism. Yet the collapse of state socialism also appears to be part of a more general crisis of socialism, a crisis that includes even its potentially more democratic variants. At the core of this broader crisis lies the diminishing appeal of the publicly owned enterprise, an institution that has always been central to the very definition of socialism, but whose economic advantages are called into question by the recent and rapid development of global markets in factors of production and especially in assets. Consequently, communism's demise by no means signifies a victory for either democratic socialism or even social democracy.
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 42, Heft 4, S. 563
ISSN: 0043-8871
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In: The review of politics, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 324
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 324-353
ISSN: 1748-6858
African Socialism represents the most comprehensive doctrinal and programmatic attempt to deal with the complex problems of the African continent. During the second decade of the second half of the twentieth century, in the effort to deal with those problems, African Socialism established itself as the ideological rationale for mass movements of solidarity in Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, Guinea, and Mali. Outside the immediate confines of these countries, the influence of African Socialism has been impressive. Even countries as traditionally conservative as Ethiopia and Liberia have had to acknowledge its existence and in some cases adopt at least its vocabulary.
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 57, Heft 3, S. 37-43
ISSN: 0012-3846
Begins with a description of Western socialism, or social democracy, identifying three key features, or ambitions. This "participatory" socialism, marked by democracy, regulation, & welfare, is deemed conventional, but a "natural" & adverse tendency toward authoritarianism & hierarchy is also seen to operate. Attention is given to "socialism-in-the-making's" political/moral character & social location in the contested spaces of civil society. D. Edelman