This first collection of Peter Beilharz's highly influential
thought traces the themes and problems, manifestations, and
trajectories of socialism and modernity as they connect and shift
over a twenty-year period. Woven throughout Beilharz's analysis is
the urgent question of modern utopia: how do we imagine freedom and
equality in modernity?
The essays in this volume explore the relationship between
socialism and modernity across the United States, Europe, and
Australia from the mid-1980s to the turn of the twenty-first
century, a time that witnessed the global triumph of capitalism and
the dramatic turn away from Marxism and socialism to modernity as
the dominant perspective. According to Beilharz, we have seen the
expansion of a kind of Weberian Marxism, with the concept of
revolution giving way to the idea of pluralized forms of power and
the idea of rupture giving way to the postmodern sense of
difference. These changes come together with the discourse of
modernism, both aesthetic and technological.
Socialism and modernity, Beilharz argues, are fundamentally
interrelated. In correcting the conflation of Marxism, Bolshevism,
and socialism that occludes contemporary political thinking, he
reopens a space for discussion of what socialist politics might
look like now-in the postcommunist-postcolonial-postmodern
moment.
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