Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies write by Kristian Niemietz. This book was released on 2019-02-07. Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism’s adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were “real socialism”. This book documents the history of this, by now, standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively reclassified as “not real socialism”.
Heaven on Earth
Heaven on Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heaven on Earth write by Joshua Muravchik. This book was released on 2003. Heaven on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The search for the Promised Land took socialists in diverse directions: revolution, communes and kibbutzim, social democracy, communism, fascism, Third Worldism. But none of these paths led to the prophesied utopia. Nowhere did socialists succeed in creating societies of easy abundance or in midwifing the birth of a "New Man," as their theory promised. Some socialist governments abandoned their grandiose goals and satisfied themselves with making slight modifications to capitalism, while others plowed ahead doggedly, often inducing staggering human catastrophes. Then, after two hundred years of wishful thinking and fitful governance, socialism suddenly imploded in the 1990s in a fin du siecle drama of falling walls, collapsing regimes and frantic revisions of doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.
The "S" Word
The "S" Word - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The "S" Word write by John Nichols. This book was released on 2011-03-21. The "S" Word available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today.
Coca-Cola Socialism
Coca-Cola Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coca-Cola Socialism write by Radina Vučetić. This book was released on 2018-06-20. Coca-Cola Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance between the two countries was carefully maintained, yet in the realms of culture and consumption the Yugoslav regime was definitely much more receptive to the American model. For Titoist Yugoslavia this tactic turned out to be beneficial, stabilising the regime internally and providing an image of openness in foreign policy. Coca-Cola Socialism addresses the link between cultural diplomacy, culture, consumer society and politics. Its main argument is that both culture and everyday life modelled on the American way were a major source of legitimacy for the Yugoslav Communist Party, and a powerful weapon for both USA and Yugoslavia in the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Radina Vučetić explores how the Party used American culture in order to promote its own values and what life in this socialist and capitalist hybrid system looked like for ordinary people who lived in a country with communist ideology in a capitalist wrapping. Her book offers a careful reevaluation of the limits of appropriating the American dream and questions both an uncritical celebration of Yugoslavia’s openness and an exaggerated depiction of its authoritarianism.
Platform Socialism
Platform Socialism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Platform Socialism write by James Muldoon. This book was released on 2022. Platform Socialism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A bold new manifesto for digital technology after capitalism.
