Tag: Socialism

Free Download Wlodzimierz Brus, Kazimierz Laski, "From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System"
English | 2002 | pages: 186 | ISBN: 0198283997, 0198233027 | PDF | 10,0 mb
Distinguished economists Brus and Laski-who were involved with the Planning Office of the Polish economy in the 1950s and 1960s-here develop a theoretical system of economic management which avoids the failings of both market capitalism and central planning. This book examines Marxists claim to socialism’s economic rationality and studies the application of the concept in the "real socialism" of Communist party orthodoxy as well as in the tentative attempts at "market socialism", particularly in Hungary and Yugoslavia. The analysis focuses on general features of the evolution of the socialist economic system, but national experiences are used to point out the advances that have been made and the flaws in the theoretical models that have been developed.

Free Download Parvathi Raman, "Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation"
English | 2008 | pages: 286 | ISBN: 1845454642, 1845457137 | PDF | 3,5 mb
Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist pasts. The chapters focus on ways in which: pre-socialist economic, political, and cultural forms in fact endured an era of socialism and have found new life in the post-socialist present, notwithstanding revolutionary socialist claims; continuities with a pre-socialist past have been produced within the historical imaginary of post-socialism; and socialist economic, political, and cultural forms have in fact endured in a purportedly postsocialist era, despite the claims of neo-liberal reformers.

Free Download Malice, "Transnational Imaginations of Socialism: Town Twinning and Local Government in "Red" Italy and the GDR, 1960s-1970s "
English | ISBN: 3110667266 | 2022 | 350 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic.

Free Download Public Spheres After Socialism By Harutyunyan, Angela(Editor);Horschelmann, Kathrin(Editor);Miles, Malcolm(Editor)
2009 | 144 Pages | ISBN: 184150212X | PDF | 1 MB
The idea of public spaces-city parks, waterfront bike paths, and bustling squares-has long been associated with urban environments.Public Spheres After Socialismchallenges this idea in light of the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Drawing together experiences from across Europe, this innovative volume reconsiders the public sphere as a figurative, or mythical, location where members of society shape and determine its values. This book examines monuments, reconstruction, film, and new media to ask whether public spaces are viable in an age of globalized consumerism.

Free Download Alemneh Dejene, "Peasants, Agrarian Socialism, And Rural Development In Ethiopia"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367282577, 081337247X | EPUB | pages: 162 | 0.8 mb
One of the few systematic field surveys undertaken following the 1975 agrarian reform in Ethiopia, this study analyzes the conditions constraining agricultural productivity of peasant farmers in the Arsi region and examines how farmers view peasant and government organizations established to attain agrarian socialism. Based on data generated through interviews with farmers, peasant association leaders, and extension agents, Dr. Dejene argues that the low prices for agricultural products, shortages of consumer goods, and lack of improvements in farming technology are among the major obstacles to increasing output among peasant farmers. The author also explores the government policy of transforming peasant associations into oollective farming units, which he finds is supported by only one quarter of the farmers interviewed. His study indicates that peasant institutions could best mobilize labor and resources to generate agricultural surplus and undertake conservation activities that would prevent future famine. Thus the author concludes that present government efforts should emphasize strengthening the cooperative movement rather than establishing collective farming.

Free Download Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State By Sternhell, Zeev
2001 | 464 Pages | ISBN: 1341341461 | PDF | 3 MB
The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. In this thought-provoking book, Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed. Sternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the dream of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists. The founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism, were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism. Because nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence.

Free Download Jay M. Winter, "Socialism and the challenge of war: ideas and politics in Britain, 1912-18"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1138018600, 1138982407 | EPUB | pages: 334 | 4.7 mb
The First World War marks a crucial period in the history of the socialist wing of the British labour movement. This book is an account of the development of the political ideas and activities of some of the most influential British socialist thinkers of that time: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, R. H. Tawney and G. D. H. Cole. The first part of the book examines the state of the Labour movement and of socialist ideas on the eve of the conflict, then turns to the central question of the impact of the War on the dissemination of British socialist ideas.

Free Download Peter Lamb, "Historical Dictionary of Socialism"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1442258268 | PDF | pages: 661 | 3.3 mb
Socialism has been an influential force for social change for almost two centuries. Its philosophy and ideology have inspired millions while simultaneously arousing fear and revulsion in its enemies. Having emerged after the French Revolution in the effort to build upon and develop the egalitarian ideas of the Enlightenment, socialism has taken many forms. It has, furthermore, sometimes been manipulated and reformulated by opportunists who have built authoritarianism and totalitarian dictatorships in its name. Opponents seize on such examples to frighten away people who may otherwise have found socialism attractive. Socialism has survived such criticism and misrepresentation as its core principles have struck a chord with generations of people concerned with social justice.

Free Download Harry Verhoeven, "Marx and Lenin in Africa and Asia: Socialism(s) and Socialist Legacies"
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1032130806, 1032130792 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.7 mb
The spectres of Marx and Lenin have long loomed prominently in Africa and Asia and they still do so in the 21st century. Many of the founding fathers of postcolonial republics believed socialism could transform their societies. Yet what socialism meant in theory and in practice has always been highly heterogeneous and differed markedly from the European experience. African and Asian movements did not simply mimic the ideas and institutions of Soviet or European Marxists, but endeavoured to define their own, experimenting with a variety of interpretations and in the process adapting doctrines and templates to their unique contexts.

Free Download Comrades, Clients and Cousins: Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe By Gerhard Seibert
2006 | 615 Pages | ISBN: 9004147365 | PDF | 8 MB
This book provides comprehensive information on the 500-year long colonial history, post-colonial politics, and local political culture and practice of the island republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, one of the smallest and least known African countries.