Socialism
An Analysis of Its Past and Future
Erzsébet Szalai is Professor of Sociology
at the Institute of Political Science of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences.
In this short, but rich piece of work, Erzsébet
Szalai offers a neo-socialist alternative to socialism
and neo-capitalism. Drawing upon the fertile tradition
of left-wing Hungarian Social Science, she offers her
own theory of transitional society, suggesting that
socialism was not an independent formation, but instead
a society in transition. She relocates soviet-type societies
on the semi-periphery of the capitalist world system.
In addition she offers a critique of capitalism that
pivots on the two connected issues of over production
and ecological crisis. She makes the distinction between
an anti-globalism critique and a globalization critique,
locating herself in the latter. This work offers readers
the opportunity to engage in a critique of capitalism
that is organized along a new understanding of socialism
itself.
Contents
Preface Chapter 1 The Power Structure and Ownership
Relations of the Semi-Peripheral Socialism Chapter
2 Power and Society Chapter 3 The Issue of
Interest Integration Chapter 4 Actors of the
Open Crisis Chapter 5 The Socio-cultural Heritage
and Its Structural Effects Chapter 6 One-party
System and the Transitory Society Chapter 7 The
Chances of the New Socialist Alternative Bibliography
2005
86 pages
ISBN 978-963-7326-28-6 paper $17.95 / €13.95 / £12.99
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