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The Ontology of Socialism
Jadwiga Staniszkis
出版
Clarendon Press
, 1992
主題
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Political Science / World / European
Science / Life Sciences / Botany
ISBN
0198275986
9780198275985
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3egEAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Ontology of Socialism represents a highly original attempt to examine and define the essential nature of socialism as it existed in Eastern Europe prior to the events of 1989. The empirical material on which the book is based is drawn from a very wide range of sources, but primarily from the Polish experience. Jadwiga Staniszkis' analysis not only significantly advances our understanding of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe, but also provides an invaluable content within which to view current changes in the region. Dr Staniszkis deals with three pivotal paradoxes of the socialist system: the fact that it is a mode of production devoid of genuine economic interests; that it is a political structure where power is devoid of political content; and that it is a social structure devoid of civil society. She also analyses the contradictions of the colonial situation in Eastern Europe, with its two levels of dependency. This book's originality lies in its attempt to generate and use conceptual categories for the analysis of socialism which are not just adaptations of concepts which have been developed to analyse the capitalist system, since often these simply do not apply.