Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Crisis of the German LeftCondition: NewSubtitle: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global EconomyISBN-10: 1845451600EAN: 9781845451608ISBN: 9781845451608Publisher: Berghahn BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2005Description: Using Nietzsche's categories of monumentalist, antiquarian and critical history, the author examines the historical and theoretical contexts of the collapse of the GDR in 1989 and looks at the positive and negative legacies of the GDR for the PDS (the successor party to the East German Communists). He contends that the Stalinization of the GDR itself was the product not just of the Cold War but of a longer inter-systemic struggle between the competing primacies of politics and economics and that the end of the GDR has to be seen as a consequence of the global collapse of the social imperative under the pressure of the re-emergence of the market-state since the mid-1970s. The PDS is therefore stuck in dilemma in which any attempt to "arrive in the Federal Republic" (Brie) is criticized as a readiness to accept the dominance of the market over society whereas any attempt to prioritize social imperatives over the market is attacked as a form of unreconstructed Stalinism. The book offers some suggestions as to how to escape from this dilemma by returning to the critical rather than monumentalist and antiquarian traditions of the workers’ movement.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Weight: 209gAuthor: Peter ThompsonGenre: Law & PoliticsBook Series: Monographs in German HistoryRelease Year: 2005 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Crisis of the German Left
Title: The Crisis of the German Left
Subtitle: The PDS, Stalinism and the Global Economy
ISBN-10: 1845451600
EAN: 9781845451608
ISBN: 9781845451608
Release Date: 09/01/2005
Release Year: 2005
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Name: Crisis of the German Left : the Pds, Stalinism and the Global Economy
Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2005
Subject: Europe / Germany, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Globalization, Sociology / General, Modern / 20th Century, General, World / European, Economic Conditions
Item Weight: 7.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Peter Thompson
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Series: Monographs in German History Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
