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The Impasse Of European Communism (Hardcover)
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The Impasse Of European Communism (Hardcover)
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The major Communist parties in Western Europe claim a commitment to
a "democratic road to socialism." Often this is a genuine evolution
of traditional Marxist/Leninist ideology based on the assumption
that political and economic power can be obtained through gradual
change rather than revolution and through the utilization of
democratic processes. How well is this strategy working? Not very
well, concludes the author of this book. Carl Boggs bases his
analysis on a theoretical assessment of the historical and
strategic development of Eurocommunism - of those par ties and
movements (notably in France, Italy, and Spain) that seek a
transition to socialism based on the democratization of existing
political and economic structures (the so-called parliamentary road
to socialism). After examining the logic and premises of this
conception, he moves to a critique of the major Eurocommunist
theoreticians-e. g., Togliatti, Berlinguer, Ingrao, Napolitano,
Carrillo, Marchais, Elleinstein, Poulantzas, and Claudin. He
concludes that their ideas fail to resolve the historic Marxist
conflict between democratization and rationalization (understood
here in terms of the drive toward statism, bureaucratization, and
further refinement of the social division of labor under
capitalism). In fact, says Dr. Boggs, Eurocommunism will probably
represent a sort of historical resolution of legitimation and
production crises within Mediterranean capitalism that extends
rather than overturns hierarchical social and authority relations,
the capitalist state, and the social division of labor. Such a
resolution might broadly parallel the function of social democracy
in Northern Europe in a previous phase of capitalist development.
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