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Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe - Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus (Hardcover)
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Ideology and Social Protests in Eastern Europe - Beyond the Transition's Liberal Consensus (Hardcover)
Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
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This book argues that the recent political mobilizations in Eastern
Europe have been underpinned by a class struggle between a more
conservative and a more radical line of contention. The latter
line, the book contends, is designed by and for subaltern groups
whose anti-systemic programme calls for not just the eradication of
corruption, but for more participatory forms of democracy, for
social justice, and for freedom from want. The former, on the other
hand, is designed by powerful groups of intellectuals, for the
middle classes whom the intellectuals see as the historical strata
capable of advancing the 'catch-up' projects of modernization and
Europeanization which they zealously champion. Based on a critical
examination of recent political struggles, including a detailed
case study of the 2013 protests in Bulgaria which focuses
particularly on their internal antagonisms and drawing on the
social theories of Antonio Gramsci and Ernst Bloch, the book
provides shrewd insights into class antagonisms in political
mobilizations, the distortive nature of ideological constructions
and utopian longings, and the factors which propel many people to
support projects for social change.
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