9789350021187 - world after the collapse of the soviet union von singh, randhir (2 Ergebnisse)
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Contents Preface 1 Of the third world 2 Russia--collapse and after 3 China--road to capitalism 4 Cuba--the hopeful legacy 5 Of the first world globalisation and all that Index of names Index of subjectsThis volume dealing with the situation in the world particularly in the third and first world parts of it following the collapse… and disappearance of the Soviet Union is essentially a theoretical exercise focused on the question of socialism in our times The issues dealt with include socialism in one country the world-system theory post-colonial national projects the current long-term crisis of capitalism a depressed continuum Meszaros has called it globalisation welfare capitalism the role of the state the necessity and possibility of a socialist transcendence of capitalism etc There is a detailed discussion of globalisation both as a response to the current crisis of capitalism and as a concept that has come up to present the international expansion and domination of capitalism in a favourable light an alternative to Marxist vocabulary with its concepts of capitalism imperialism etc It specificities including the information revolution as also the opposition to it are noted and analysedOf the former second world the chapter on Russia is focused on the beginnings of capitalist restoration in the country and that on China on the countrys road to capitalism The author sees Cuba as a hopeful legacy in the midst of the worldwide crisis of socialism with the former communist regimes and parties succumbing one after another to the lure or power of the market Cuba has stood almost alone and defiant so far against the global offensive of capitalism Cuba remains the one society which has retained a revolutionary commitment although having to make concessions to global capitalism Even as it retreats in some spheres of life it has come to lead the world in others for example in the vision of an ecological society and development of socialist democracy jacket 598 pp.
