Andrei Znamenski

Socialism as a Secular Creed (eBook, PDF)

A Modern Global History

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed "scientific" by linking it to "history laws" and inventing the proletariat-the "chosen people" that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s-1990s and the "great neoliberalism scare," Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007-2008 crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978755390
• Artikelnr.: 74829502

Autorenporträt

Andrei Znamenski is professor of history at the University of Memphis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Varieties of the Left Experience
Chapter 1: Religion of Modernity: How an English Textile Baron and a French
Aristocrat Jump Started the Socialist Creed
Chapter 2: "Sabbath of History": Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Moses
Hess Make Socialism "Scientific"
Chapter 3: Great Schism: Social Democracy, Radical Cosmopolitans, and War
Socialism (1870s-1920s)
Chapter 4: Prophecy of the World Revolution and Nationalist Temptations,
1917-1930s
Chapter 5: National Bolshevism: Stalin's Soviet Union (1929-1953)
Chapter 6: True Believers, Fellow Travelers, and Dissenters (1920s-1940s)
Chapter 7: Creating Community: National Socialist Biopolitics in Germany,
1933-1945
Chapter 8: "Regime of Goodness": Social Democracy and the Swedish Model,
1920s-1990s
Chapter 9: Blood and Soil in the Palestine Desert: Kibbutz Socialism,
1920s-1970s
Chapter 10: The East is Red: Communism in China, North Korea, and Cambodia
Chapter 11: African Socialism: Tanzanian "Village Socialism" and Zimbabwe
Ethno-Racial State
Chapter 12: The Western Left: "Third Way" and Neoliberalism, 1970s-2010s
Chapter 13: Retreat of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China (1980s-2008)
Chapter 14: How Marxism Became Cultural: Frankfurt School, British Cultural
Studies, and the New Left
Chapter 15: The Cultural Left and the "Curse" of the Western Civilization,
1960s-2010s
Conclusion: From Left Melancholia to New Militancy