POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

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This article examines The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing as a critical re-evaluation of twentieth-century utopian idealism and its moral aftermath. Returning to social realism, Lessing reconstructs the disillusionment of the 1960s through the lives of three generations of the Lennox family, exposing the collapse of communism, post-war radicalism, and African socialism. The novel contrasts ideological rhetoric with …

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1999 doctoral thesis by Chamsy Ojeili at Massey University

Book · DOAB

In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down. Two years later the Soviet Union disintegrated. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union discredited the idea of socialism for generations to come. It was seen as representing the final and irreversible victory of capitalism. This triumphal dominance was barely challenged until the 2008 financial crisis threw the Western world into a state of turmoil. Thr…

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Dieses Buch ist die bisher ausführlichste Darstellung von Philosophie und Politik der PKK und der kurdischen Befreiungsbewegung aus der Feder ihres wichtigsten politischen Repräsentanten. Öcalans Vision einer kommunal organisierten demokratisch-ökologischen Gesellschaft gab der kurdischen Bewegung wichtige Impulse und bietet Anregungen für die globale Debatte um einen neuen Sozialismus. Sein Plädoyer gegen staatl…