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Power and Civil Society - Toward a Dynamic Theory of Real Socialism (Hardcover, New)
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Power and Civil Society - Toward a Dynamic Theory of Real Socialism (Hardcover, New)
Series: Contributions in Political Science
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The seeds of this volume were contained in a series of lectures
delivered by Leszak Nowak to his co-interned activists of
Solidarity in a Polish prison in 1982. From the stance of a
political philosopher, Nowak suggests statements about power; as a
social theorist, he proposes a systematization of hypotheses into
idealized models of increasing realism. Most books on socialism are
based on either radical or conservative ideologies; Power and Civil
Society, however begins with radical assumptions but reaches rather
conservative conclusions. Nowak's discussion of the three
independent main social divisions--owners/producers, rulers/ruled,
and priests or mass-culture-media/believers--reveals the separation
of these divisions in class societies and their integration into a
triple class of rulers-owners-priests in real-socialism societies.
Nowak contends that triple-class rulers wrest control of political
power from both owner and priest classes and undergo regularities
of political power in its pure form. The thrust of the book is an
elaboration of a proposal of the general theory of political power
that confronts it with its classic area of application--the history
of the Soviet Union--by offering a series of models beginning with
the most abstract. Each subsequent model presents a more
complicated network of interconnections that characterize the
phenomenon of political power. The sixteen-chapter volume is
structured into five major divisions that begin with a discussion
of some basic assumptions on the nature of power and the
non-Christian model of man. Part Two considers some elementary
models of power by focusing on idealizing conditions, revolution,
the organization of civil society, and citizens' utopia. Global
Models of Power, Part Three, treats the mechanism of aggression,
the structure and development of an empire, and a block of
countries. Special models of power are surveyed in Part Four. The
book concludes with an attempt to confront the modeling
construction with the history of the socialist world both at the
level of the relations between rulers and ruled, political
institutions, political doctrines, and international relations
within the Soviet empire. Here Nowak seeks to locate both those
trends which can be approximately explained by a certain model of
the presented hierarchy and those which can not. Six appendixes
deal with such phenomena as The Conception of Class Loop and the
Rotating Elites Theory, Social Consciousness as a Hypostasis, and
more. This book will be excellent reading for Sovietologists,
Political Theorists, Social Philosophers, and Philosophers of
History.
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