Process of Democratization

Häftad, Engelska, 1991

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Georg Lukacs's The Process of Democratization provides indispensable reading for an understanding of the revolution that swept Russia and Eastern Europe during 1989-1990. Lukacs, a spokesman for anti-Bolshevik communism, was the advance guard of anti-Stalinist reform. Written in the aftermath of the Prague Spring, his book was a precursor to many of the Gorbachev reforms. Lukacs was the leading communist intellectual in the world until his death. During his last 15 years, he embarked upon a massive effort to revive Marxism as philosophy, as aesthetics, and as politics. The Process of Democratization was part of this attempt at a Marxist renaissance. He would probably be surprised to find that the Second Russian Revolution of 1989-1990 moved far beyond his reformism, overthrowing even the anti-Stalinist communism that he fought to retain.

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Utgivningsdatum:1991-08-13
Mått:153 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
Antal sidor:179
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791407622
Översättare:Bernhardt, Susanne, Levine, Norman

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Susanne Bernhardt is a translator and author residing in Berlin, Germany. Norman Levine is Adjunct Professor of History at the American Graduate School of International Management. He has written The Tragic Deception: Marx Contra Engels and Dialogue Within the Dialectic.

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Acknowledgments Introduction On the Transcendence of State and RevolutionNorman Levine The Process of Democratization Notes on the Translation Preliminary Methodological Remarks Part I. Bourgeois Democracy as a False Alternative for the Reform of Socialism 1. Democracy and Its Various Economic Formations 2. The Necessary Developmental Tendencies of Bourgeois Democratization 3. Bourgeois Democracy Today Part II. The Pure Alternative: Stalinism or Socialist Democracy 4. Theoretic and Historic Presuppositions of a Concrete Problem 5. Stalin's Victory Over His Rivals 6. Stalin's Method 7. The Twentieth Congress and Its Consequences Index