Socialism as a Secular Creed

A Modern Global History

AvAndrei Znamenski

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-12-28
Mått:152 x 226 x 36 mm
Vikt:699 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:494
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498557320
Utmärkelser:Winner of Book of the Year: Understanding the World 2021

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Andrei Znamenski is professor of history at the University of Memphis.

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Andrei Znamenski's history is told with verse combined with scholarship, comparable to old classics such as Wilson's To the Finland Station and Kolakowski 's Main Currents of Marxism. Any fair-minded leftist will be brought up short. Read it.

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Introduction: The Varieties of the Left Experience Chapter 1: Religion of Modernity: How an English Textile Baron and a French Aristocrat Jump Started the Socialist Creed Chapter 2: “Sabbath of History”: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Moses Hess Make Socialism “Scientific” Chapter 3: Great Schism: Social Democracy, Radical Cosmopolitans, and War Socialism (1870s-1920s) Chapter 4: Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations, 1917-1930s Chapter 5: National Bolshevism: Stalin’s Soviet Union (1929-1953) Chapter 6: True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s) Chapter 7: Creating Community: National Socialist Biopolitics in Germany, 1933-1945 Chapter 8: “Regime of Goodness”: Social Democracy and the Swedish Model, 1920s-1990s Chapter 9: Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert: Kibbutz Socialism, 1920s-1970s Chapter 10: The East is Red: Communism in China, North Korea, and Cambodia Chapter 11: African Socialism: Tanzanian “Village Socialism” and Zimbabwe Ethno-Racial State Chapter 12: The Western Left: “Third Way” and Neoliberalism, 1970s-2010s Chapter 13: Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s-2008) Chapter 14: How Marxism Became Cultural: Frankfurt School, British Cultural Studies, and the New Left Chapter 15: The Cultural Left and the “Curse” of the Western Civilization, 1960s-2010s Conclusion: From Left Melancholia to New Militancy

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