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After the fall : 1989 and the future of freedom / edited by George Katsiaficas.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World politics--1989-.
- World politics.
- Post-communism.
- Liberty.
- Security, International.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the free market prevailed, once and for all?
- It has been over ten years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union is fast approaching. In After the Fall, many of the most important Marxist scholars and journalists gather to argue that justice and equality are more important now than ever. They worry that the last ten years has brought us plenty of global capitalism but not much of the democratic freedom that the world had hoped for.
- The years from 1989 to 1991 did score some pretty heady victories for freedom, but After the Fall argues there is much work to be done in detaching the best parts of Marxism from the fallen carcass of Communism.
- Contents:
- I Historical Interventions 9
- 1 1989: The End of Communism? / Daniel Singer 11
- 2 How We Ended the Cold War / John Tirman 20
- II Analytical Accounts 33
- 3 1989: The Continuation of 1968 / Giovanni Arrighi, Terence K. Hopkins, Immanuel Wallerstein 35
- 4 The Road to Consumption / Boris Kagarlitsky 52
- III Retrospective Views 67
- 5 A Decade of Hope and Despair / Hanna Behrend 69
- 6 China Ten Years After the Tiananmen Crackdown / Ngo Vinh Long 93
- 7 How Adjaria Did Not Become Another Bosnia: A Study in the Interplay of Historical Determination, Human Agency, and Accident in the Chaotic Transition / Georgi M. Derluguian 103
- IV Ethical Imperatives 123
- 8 Of Means and Ends: 1989 As Ethicopolitical Imperative / Manfred B. Steger 125
- 9 The Sickness Unto Death: International Communism Before the Deluge / Stephen Eric Bronner 140
- V Political Responses 151
- 10 Rollback: Aftermath of the Overthrow of Communism / Michael Parenti 153
- 11 The Saints Come Marching in: A Response to John Lewis Gaddis / Irene L. Gendzier 159
- VI The Future of Socialism after Communism 173
- 12 Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination / Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin 175
- 13 Postcommunist Democratic Socialism? / Nancy Fraser 200.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415930243
- 0415930251
- OCLC:
- 44720411
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