The Crisis Of The German Left

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571815430

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Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers' movement.

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:1310586083

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Author : Christiane Lemke,Gary Marks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0822311976

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The Crisis of Socialism in Europe by Christiane Lemke,Gary Marks Pdf

The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the "crisis" of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions. The collection begins with an historical overview of socialism in Western Europe and moves toward the suggestion of a framework for a post-socialist discourse. Among the topics covered are: the birth and death of communism and a regime type in Eastern Europe; how different forms of national communism were smothered by Sovietization in the postwar period; the origins of revolutions in Eastern Europe; the potential for social democracy in Hungary; the role of the Left in a reunified German; and directions for the Left in general. Contributors. Geoff Eley, Konrad Jarausch, Herbert Kitschelt, Christiane Lemke, Andrei Markovits, Gary Marks, Wolfgang Merkel, Norman Naimark, Iván and Szonja Szelénya, Sharon Wolchik

Author : Peter Thompson
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845451600

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The Crisis of the German Left by Peter Thompson Pdf

Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers' movement.

Author : David W. Morgan
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015058013932

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The Socialist Left and the German Revolution by David W. Morgan Pdf

Author : Andrei S. Markovits,Philip S. Gorski
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015033095715

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The German Left by Andrei S. Markovits,Philip S. Gorski Pdf

This comprehensive, richly detailed history and political analysis of the German Left since 1945 focuses on the emergence of the Greens as the most influential anti-establishment party in Europe and possibly in the industrial, capitalist world, and shows how this process has fundamentally changed politics in the Federal Republic, transformed the style and output of one of the most important and traditional Lefts in Europe, and provided the most prominent and potent expression of "postmodern" politics in the advanced capitalist states. Uniquely broad in scope, the book gives special consideration to the East German Left and to the revolutionary changes of 1989-90 while revealing political and social implications, present and future, far beyond the immediate German context. An imaginative, insightful study of a topic of great interest to students, this book is an important resource for courses in comparative politics, political economy, and political sociology.

Author : Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926836874

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Social Democracy After the Cold War by Ingo Schmidt,Bryan Evans Pdf

"Despite the market triumphalism that greeted the end of the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet empire seemed initially to herald new possibilities for social democracy. In the 1990s, with a new era of peace and economic prosperity apparently imminent, people discontented with the realities of global capitalism swept social democrats into power in many Western countries. The resurgence was, however, brief. Neither the recurring economic crises of the 2000s nor the ongoing War on Terror was conducive to social democracy, which soon gave way to a prolonged decline in countries where social democrats had once held power. Arguing that neither globalization nor demographic change was key to the failure of social democracy, the contributors to this volume analyze the rise and decline of Third Way social democracy and seek to lay the groundwork for the reformulation of progressive class politics. Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines countries where social democracy has long been an influential political force--Sweden, Germany, Britain, and Australia--while also considering the history of Canada's NDP, the social democratic tradition in the United States, and the emergence of New Left parties in Germany and the province of Québec. The case studies point to a social democracy that has confirmed its rupture with the postwar order and its role as the primary political representative of workingclass interests. Once marked by redistributive and egalitarian policy perspectives, social democracy has, the book argues, assumed a new role--that of a modernizing force advancing the neoliberal cause." -- Publisher's website.

Author : Eric Waldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Germany
ISBN : UOM:39015003548354

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The Spartacist Uprising of 1919 and the Crisis of the German Socialist Movement: a Study of the Relation of Political Theory and Party Practice by Eric Waldman Pdf

Author : Larry Eugene Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108494076

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The German Right, 1918–1930 by Larry Eugene Jones Pdf

Analyzes the role of the non-Nazi German Right in the destabilization and paralysis of Weimar democracy from 1918 to 1930.

Author : Charles S. Maier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691007465

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Dissolution by Charles S. Maier Pdf

Against the backdrop of the sudden and unexpected fall of communism, Harvard history teacher Charles Maier traces the demise of East Germany". . . . an historian whose writing talks both to political scientists and to lay readers . . . combines probing historical examination with disciplined and informed political analysis".Richard H. Ullman, Princeton Universtiy.

Author : David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857457195

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Between Reform and Revolution by David E. Barclay,Eric D. Weitz Pdf

The powerful impact of Socialism and Communism on modern German history is the theme which is explored by the contributors to this volume. Whereas previous investigations have tended to focus on political, intellectual and biographical aspects, this book captures, for the first time, the methodological and thematic diversity and richness of current work on the history of the German working class and the political movements that emerged from it. Based on original contributions from U.S., British, and German scholars, this collection address a wide range of themes and problems.

Author : Manwaring, Rob,Kennedy, Paul
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447332695

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Why the Left Loses by Manwaring, Rob,Kennedy, Paul Pdf

Around the world, parties of the left and center-left have been struggling, losing ground to right-wing parties and various forms of reactionary populism. This book brings together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy to offer an international, comparative view of the changing political landscape. Using case studies from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Australia and New Zealand contributors argue that despite different local and specific contexts, the mainstream center-left is beset by a range of common challenges. Analysis focuses on institutional and structural factors, the role of key individuals, and the atrophy of progressive ideas as interconnected reasons for the current struggles of the center-left.

Author : Costas Lapavitsas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509531080

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The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas Pdf

Many on the Left see the European Union as a fundamentally benign project with the potential to underpin ever greater cooperation and progress. If it has drifted rightward, the answer is to fight for reform from within. In this iconoclastic polemic, economist Costas Lapavitsas demolishes this view. He contends that the EU’s response to the Eurozone crisis represents the ultimate transformation of the union into a neoliberal citadel that institutionally embeds austerity, privatization, and wage cuts. Concurrently, the rise of German hegemony has divided the EU into an unstable core and dependent peripheries. These related developments make the EU impervious to meaningful reform. The solution is therefore a direct challenge to the EU project that stresses popular and national sovereignty as preconditions for true internationalist socialism. Lapavitsas’s powerful manifesto for a left opposition to the EU upends the wishful thinking that often characterizes the debate and will be a challenging read for all on the Left interested in the future of Europe.

Author : Hans D. Sluga
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674387126

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Heidegger's Crisis by Hans D. Sluga Pdf

Philosophy and politics make uneasy bedfellows. Nowhere has this been more true than in Nazi Germany, where the pursuit of truth and the will to power became fatally entangled. Though Martin Heidegger's Nazi past is well known and much debated, less is understood about the role of philosophy - and other philosophers - in the rise and development of National Socialism.

Author : Philippe Bourrinet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004325937

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The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68) by Philippe Bourrinet Pdf

The Dutch-German Communist Left separated from the Comintern (1921) on questions like electoralism, trade-unionism, united fronts, the one-party state and anti-proletarian violence. The present volume provides the most substantial history to date of this tendency in the twentieth-century Communist movement.