EMBRACING SOCIALISM
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 40, Heft 2, S. 241-243
ISSN: 0012-3846
RECENT HISTORY HAS NOT BEEN KIND TO THE IDEAS OF SOCIALISM AND TRADITION. THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION--"THE ONLY EXISTING SOCIALISM" ACCORDING TO SOME FRIENDS AND FOES ALIKE--SEEMS TO MAKE SOCIALISM AN OBVIOUS CANDIDATE FOR THE DUSTBIN OF HISTORY. IT IS WITHIN THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT THAT PEOPLE ON THE LEFT, WHO IN THE PAST HAVE DEFINED THEMSELVES UNHESITATINGLY AS SOCIALISTS AND AS PART OF A SOCIALIST TRADITION, FACE THE QUESTION OF WHETHER THEY ARE MISGUIDED IN CLINGING TO THAT IDENTITY AND TRADITION.