Socialism
Title
Socialism
Subtitle
An Analysis of its Past and Future
Price
€ 43,95 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789637326295
Format
Paperback
Number of pages
86
Language
English
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Dimensions
15.5 x 22.9 cm
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Table of Contents
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Preface Chapter 1 The Power Structure and Ownership Relations of the Semi-Peripheral Socialism Chapter 2 Power and Society Chapter 3 The Issue of Interest Integration Chapter 4 Actors of the Open Crisis Chapter 5 The Socio-cultural Heritage and Its Structural Effects Chapter 6 One-party System and the Transitory Society Chapter 7 The Chances of the New Socialist Alternative Bibliography

Erzsébet Szalai

Socialism

An Analysis of its Past and Future

In this short, but rich piece of work, Erzsébet Szalai offers a neo-socialist alternative to socialism (i.e. communist ruled state-socialism) and neo-capitalism. Drawing upon the fertile tradition of left-wing Hungarian Social Sciences, she offers her own theory of transitional society, suggesting that socialism was not an independent formation, but instead a society in transition. She relocates soviet-type societies on the semi-periphery of the capitalist world system. In addition she offers a critique of capitalism that pivots on the two connected issues of over production and ecological crisis. She makes the distinction between an anti-globalism critique and a globalization critique, locating herself in the latter. This work offers readers the opportunity to engage in a critique of capitalism that is organized along a new understanding of socialism itself.
Author

Erzsébet Szalai

Erzsébet Szalai is Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Political Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.