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From left communism to post-modernism : reconsidering emancipatory discourse / Chamsy el-Ojeili.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El-Ojeili, Chamsy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism.
- Postmodernism.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2003]
- Summary:
- From Left Communism to Post-modernism addresses issues of the shape and future of the socialist movement and the politics of post-modernism. The author identifies a tradition of socialist thought- left communism- that is separate from socialist orthodoxy, seeking to stage a conversation between this marginalized tradition and post-modernism.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 The Post-modern Condition and the Retreat of the Socialist Project 9
- Chapter 3 What is to be done? Intellectual, Party, Theory 45
- Chapter 4 Left Communism and the Crisis of Socialist Values 85
- Chapter 5 Really Existing Socialism, and the World Without Wages 125
- Chapter 6 The State, Revolution, and Socialist Democracy 165
- Chapter 7 The Turn to Culture, and Utopia at the End of History 209.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761825843
- OCLC:
- 52334851
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