From Neo-Marxism to Democratic Theory: Essays on the Critical Theory of Soviet-type Societies

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M.E. Sharpe

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Authoritarian Socialism and the Frankfurt School
3
Between Apology and Critique Marcuses Soviet Marxism
22
Critical Sociology and Authoritarian State Socialism
59
From Western to Eastern Marxism
84
Immanent Critique and Authoritarian Socialism On Konrad and Szelenyis Intellectuals
105
The Budapest School and Actually Existing Socialism
121
Facing Russia Castoriadis and the Problem of SovietType Societies
144
The Rise of Civil Society and Democratic Theory
167
Empire vs Civil Society Poland 198182
210
The Democratic Theory of the Polish Opposition Normative Intentions and Strategic Ambiguities
241
Some Perspectives of Democratization in East Central Europe
254
Social Theory Civil Society and the Transformation of Authoritarian Socialism
271
Revolution Civil Society and Democracy
294
Social Movements and Civil Society in the Soviet Union
311
Index
329
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Civil Society vs the State Poland 198081
169

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Σελίδα 55 - By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For "totalitarian" is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a nonterroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It thus precludes the emergence of an effective opposition against the whole. Not only a specific form of government or party rule makes for totalitarianism, but also a specific...
Σελίδα 43 - ... total subjection of man to the productive apparatus appears in the authoritarian transformation of the Marxist into the Stalinist and post-Stalinist language. These requirements, as interpreted by the leadership which controls the apparatus, define what is right and wrong, true and false. They leave no time and no space for a discussion which would project disruptive alternatives. This language no longer lends itself to "discourse
Σελίδα 304 - The move to electoral parties with their less intense, more inclusive, more abstract form of political identification and their lower degree of direct participation tends to devalue and replace movements and associations with their more particular, but also more intense and participatory, forms of organization.
Σελίδα 57 - ideology'." in Toward a Rational Society. Boston: Beacon Press.
Σελίδα 127 - A social order is legitimated if at least one part of the population acknowledges it as exemplary and binding and the other part does not confront the existing social order with the image of an alternative one as equally exemplary.

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