Splendour, Misery, And Possibilities: An X-ray Of Socialist Yugoslavia (historical Materialism)
by Darko Suvin /
2016 / English / PDF
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Suvin s X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable
overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century
socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary
self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that
between 1965 72 there was a confused and hidden but still
open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was
closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of
this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political
history, which points beyond Yugoslavia including its achievements
and degeneration to show how political and economic democracy fail
when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is
at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical
frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates
about classes, and Marx s great foray against a religious State
doctrine in
Suvin s X-Ray of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable
overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century
socialism. It shows that the plebeian surge of revolutionary
self-determination was halted in SFR Yugoslavia by 1965; that
between 1965 72 there was a confused and hidden but still
open-ended clash; and that by 1972 the oligarchy in power was
closed and static, leading to failure. The underlying reasons of
this failure are analysed in a melding of semiotics and political
history, which points beyond Yugoslavia including its achievements
and degeneration to show how political and economic democracy fail
when pursued in isolation. The emphasis on socialist Yugoslavia is
at various points embedded into a wider historical and theoretical
frame, including Left debates about the party, sociological debates
about classes, and Marx s great foray against a religious State
doctrine inThe Jewish Question
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