From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory
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Adam Michnik
Andras Hegedus
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authoritarian
authoritarian socialism critique
Authoritarian State Socialism
Budapest School
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civil
Civil Society
civil society transformation
Classical Marxian
Contemporary Society
Critical Social Theory
critical theory Soviet societies transition
critique
Democratic Opposition
Direct Democracy
Eastern European democratization
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Face To Face
Frankfurt School analysis
GDR
Gorbachev Group
immanent
Immanent Critique
ivan
Janos
Polish Democratic Opposition
post-Marxist perspectives
Rational Redistribution
Reform Dictatorship
social movements theory
socialism
Socialist Civil Society
society
Soviet Marxism
Soviet Society
Soviet Type Societies
state
szelenyi
Totalitarianism Thesis
union
Unlimited
West Germany
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- ISBN 9780873328821
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The essays in this volume trace an intellectual odyssey, a search for a genuinely critical theory. The book begins with the question of why the Frankfurt School as well as other neo-Marxist and post-Marxist analysts, both in the West and in dissident circles in the East, failed to produce a critical theory of Soviet socialism or to establish a dynamic relationship with contemporary social movements. As the political struggle in Eastern Europe intensified, the author of this book disengaged from his own efforts to reconstruct a critical Marxism. Instead, he attempts a reconstruction of democratic theory based on civil society rather than class categories, and with a critical relevance not only to the transition from state socialism but more generally to the universal goal of emancipation.
