Did the U.S. really "win" the Cold War? Is the fall of Communism only a temporary setback for Marxism, or has the freemarket prevailed, once and for all? It has been over ten years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the tenth anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union is fast approaching. In After The Fall, many of the most important Marxist scholars and journalists gather to argue that justice and equality are more important now than ever. They worry that the last ten years has brought us plenty of global capitalism but not much of the democratic freedom that the world had hoped for. The years from 1989 to 1991 did score some pretty heady victories for freedom, but this book argues there is much work to be done in detaching the best parts of Marxism from the fallen carcass of Communism.

Contents:
Introduction by George Katsiaficas 2.Part one: Historical Interventions Chapter one: 1989 revisited Daniel Singer Chapter two: How we ended the cold war John Tirman 3. Part Two: Analytical Accounts Chapter three: 1989: Continuation of 1968 Giovanni Arrighi, Terrence Hopkins and Immanual Wallerstein 4. Chapter four: The Road to Consumption Boris Kagarlitsky Part three: Retrospective views Chapter Five: Germany: A decade of hope and despair Hanna Behrand Chapter Six: China: Ten years after the Tiananmen crackdown Ngo Vihn Long Chapter six: How Adjaria did not become another Bosnia. Historical determination, human agency and accident in the study of nationalist conflict George M. Derluguian Part four Ethical Imperatives Chapter seven: Of means and ends: 1989 as Ethico-political imperative Manfred B. Steger Chapter eight: The sickness unto death: International communism before the deluge stephen Eric Bronner Part five: Political Responses Chapter Nine: Rollback: The aftermath of the overthrow of communism 'Michael Parenti Chapter ten: Cols war triumphalism: A reply to John Gaddis Irene Gendzier Part six The future of socialism after communism Chapter eleven: Transceding pessimism: Rekindling socialist imagination leo Panitch and Sam Gindin Chapter twelve: Postcommunist democratic socialism Nancy Fraser Contributors Index

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